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I've done a couple of conferences where you sit and sign autographs for people, and then you have photographs taken with them and a lot of them all dressed up in alien suits or 'Doctor Who' whatevers. I was terrified of doing it because I thought they'd all be loonies, but they are absolutely, totally charming as anything. It's great fun.

~John Hurt

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For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

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Essentially, I am an actor for hire. I am not a rarified creature. I do all these different things, and they all interest me.

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I'm somewhat old-fashioned, and I still talk about playing a part. I don't talk about my work - 'I've seen some of your work' - there's not much work in it, is there?

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Everything that came to me, in terms of the ritzier side of performing, was a plus.

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I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to have done. I didn't want to go to university. The only other thing I could do was paint, and so I went to art school because they couldn't conceive of how one would be an actor.

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Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

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You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form. Everything you touch seems to work and come right. And other times, when you're working really hard, it's okay, but it isn't scintillating.

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Everybody's got to work with Roger Corman. You can't leave out that experience.

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'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: January 22nd, 1940

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