William Hurt Quotes - Page 2

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.

The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.