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If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

~John Hurt

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It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

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I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.

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I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

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It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

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I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

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I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

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As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

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It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

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I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: January 22nd, 1940

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