William Hurt

Actor

1950-03-20 – 2022-03-13

William Hurt was an American actor known for Kiss of the Spider Woman, Broadcast News, and A History of Violence. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Quotes by William Hurt

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. 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.
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But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.
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If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people.
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My first cousin, by the way, on my father's mother side was John Marshall Harlan, who was a Supreme Court justice, as was his grandson. And I think a lot of my fight and my work to struggle for fairness and the techniques of theater and in subject matter probably stems in some way from some sense I have of his issues in life.
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I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging.
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
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I don't want my children to have to wade through the crap to get to the cream, you know. I want them to be aware that I struggled to live with and tell my truth, and that it was a decent thing.
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