John Hurt quotes - page 2

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio. (John Hurt)
My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize. View quote
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I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film. View quote
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My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her. View quote
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I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising. View quote
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