Sir John Hurt movie quotes

“There comes a time in man's search for meaning when he realises that there are no answers. And when you come to the horrible and unavoidable realization, you accept it or you kill yourself. Or you simply stop searching.”
Sir John Hurt - The Priest

Jesus once passed a blind beggar on the road, and his disciples asked: "Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?". And Jesus said: "Neither this man nor his parents sinned. He was made blind so that the works of God could be revealed in him". And with that, he placed mud on his eyes and told him to wash in the Pool of... (continue)(continue reading)
Sir John Hurt - The Priest

“- The Priest: God is love, and God is everywhere.
- Jackie Kennedy: Was he in the bullet that killed Jack?
- The Priest: Absolutely.
- Jackie Kennedy: Is he inside me now?
- The Priest: Yes, of course. Of course he is.
- Jackie Kennedy: Well, that's a funny game he plays, hiding all the time.”
Sir John Hurt - The Priest
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy

“- Jackie Kennedy: I think God is cruel.
- The Priest: Well, now you're getting into trouble.”
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy
Sir John Hurt - The Priest

“- The Monster: What am I that you must destroy me?
- Buchanan: An abomination, in the eyes of God.
- The Monster: Then what are you?
- Buchanan: I am... Frankenstein!”
Nick Brimble - The Monster
Sir John Hurt - Buchanan

“- Hazel: Go... now... or we'll kill you!
- Capt. Holly: It's you who'll be killed!”

Sir John Hurt - Hazel
John Bennett - Capt. Holly

“I know Maxwell Danforth very well; he killed my wife. Not with his bare hands, of course. The Danforths of the world don't murder that way. They use words like terminate, exterminate.”
Sir John Hurt - Lawrence Fassett

“- The Priest: Take comfort in those memories.
- Jackie Kennedy: I can't. They're mixed up with all the others.”
Sir John Hurt - The Priest
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy

“- Lambert: I can't see a goddamn thing.
- Kane: Quit griping.
- Lambert: I like griping.”
Veronica Cartwright - Lambert
Sir John Hurt - Kane

“When I was ill, they told me, because of the drugs and all that, they told me I might never be able to father a child. Do you think you could live with that?”
Sir John Hurt - Bob Champion

“Man had been created with a hole in his heart, a hole that no possession, power, or knowledge could fill. And in his infinite greed, man dreamed of expanding his dominion over the entire Earth.”
Sir John Hurt - Professor Broom

“Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.”
Sir John Hurt

“Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.”
Sir John Hurt

“I sure hope they can get the smell out of those fish!”

Sir John Hurt - Duchess

“- Winston Smith: Does Big Brother even exist?
- O'Brien: Of course he exists.
- Winston Smith: No, I mean... does he exist like you or me?
- O'Brien: You do not exist.”
Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith
Richard Burton - O'Brien

“You know what they say in China? They say: Ciao!”
Sir John Hurt - Lester

“These are our people. The workers, the strivers, the builders. These are our people. The builders of our world, struggling, fighting, bleeding, dying. On the streets of our cities and on the far-flung battlefields. Fighting against the mutilation of our hopes and dreams. Who are they?”
Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith

“This is our land. A land of peace and of plenty. A land of harmony and hope. This is our land. Oceania.”
Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith

- Grigori Rasputin: He disclosed to me the child's true name. Would you like to know it?
- Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm: I already know what to call him. I call him "son".

Karel Roden - Grigori Rasputin
Sir John Hurt - Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm

“- O'Brien: Do you consider yourself a man?
- Winston Smith: Yes.
- O'Brien: If you're a man, Winston, you're the last man. Your kind is extinct. We are the inheritors. Do you realize that you are alone? You are outside history. You unexist.”
Richard Burton - O'Brien
Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith

“- John Profumo: I have nothing to hide.
- Stephen Ward: Come off it John, we all have something to hide, what a boring life it would be if we didn't.”
Sir Ian McKellen - John Profumo
Sir John Hurt - Stephen Ward

“My life is full because I know I am loved.”
Sir John Hurt - John Merrick

Through the vicissitudes of wholly gratuitous genetic accidents, I was visited with extremely high intelligence. I was further blessed - or burdened, as it were - with certain physical traits that would suggest "good breeding". Now, in this proletarian stew which we laughingly call society, these attributes are not always advantageous.

Sir John Hurt - Douglas Benoit

“- Dandelion: If we meet again, Hazel-rah, we'll have the making of the best story ever!
- Hazel: And you'll be the one to tell it!”
Richard O'Callaghan - Dandelion
Sir John Hurt - Hazel

“- Fassett's Wife: You will be showing me how to live.
- Lawrence Fassett: How do you know so much?
- Fassett's Wife: I don't know so much. But I know you will be leaving me.”
Sir John Hurt - Lawrence Fassett