Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

John Hurt
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  1. You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form. Everything you touch seems...

  2. I've never changed the way I live. I still walk the streets I don't give a damn. And everyone's very nice to me. But this new idea of being famous for no reason at all? I can't actually get my head round it.

  3. I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.

  4. We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

  5. I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

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