William Hurt
William Hurt
William McChord Hurtis an American stage and film actor. He received his acting training at the Juilliard School and began acting on stage in the 1970s. Hurt made his film debut as a troubled scientist in the science-fiction feature Altered States, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year. He subsequently played a leading role, as a lawyer who succumbs to the temptations of Kathleen Turner, in the neo-noir Body Heat...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth20 March 1950
CountryUnited States of America
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.
It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
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.
What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.
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
I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision
I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process
I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations
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.