8 Quotes By William Hurt


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.
William Hurt on amazing

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.
William Hurt on amazing

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
William Hurt on courage

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
William Hurt on dad

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
William Hurt on failure

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
William Hurt on famous

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
William Hurt on knowledge

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
William Hurt on science