I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

Quote by John Hurt

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If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year...

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year...

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some...

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some...

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence...

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence...

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

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

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get...

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get...

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a...

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a...

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them...

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them...

Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the...

Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the...

I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under...

I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under...

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions....

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions....

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it...

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it...

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

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

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think...

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think...

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

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

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point...

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point...

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a...

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a...

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the...

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the...

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and...

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and...