A biography for John Hurthasn’t been written yet.
“Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.”
“Everyone I've ever played has been flawed.”
“Everybody's got to work with Roger Corman. You can't leave out that experience.”
“Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.”
“I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'”
“Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.”
“I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script.”
“I've lived publicly and never hidden behind closed doors. Therefore, if I have gone over the top sometimes, it has been visible.”
“I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.”
“I've worked with people from Fred Zinnemann, John Huston, through to Richard Fleischer, all of those boys from Hollywood and so on, and Sam Peckinpah and then the Mike Radfords.”
“It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.”
“I'd love to be one of those people who, whenever you see them, you feel pleased.”
“I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.”
“Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are liable to hit out and feel insulted. You know it is absolutely without proof, yet people still commit themselves totally to this belief. They cannot refute it because it is so central to their lives.”
“Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.”
“Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.”
“I don't care about the length of anything I play, as long as it's a good character.”
“To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.”
“If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.”
“My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.”