William Hurt movie quotes

“What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.”
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

“- Peter: I think I've underestimated you, Ned. I don't know why it took me so long. You've started using your incompetence as a weapon.
- Ned: My defense was evolving.”
Ted Danson - Peter Lowenstein
William Hurt - Ned Racine

“- Nick: I think the guy in the hat did something terrible.
- Sam: Like what?
- Nick: You're so analytical! Sometimes you just have to let art... flow... over you.”

William Hurt - Nick
Tom Berenger - Sam

“We have protected innocence that I'm not willing to give up.”
William Hurt - Edward Walker

“You have a nice personality and you know sweaters.”

William Hurt - Doug

“If there's one thing I've learned about people, it's that many will do anything, anything not to die. And they'll do anything to keep from living their life.”
William Hurt - Angus Tuck

If I ever hear you describe a patient as "terminal" again, that's how you'll describe your career!
William Hurt - Dr. Jack MacKee

I love you as my own flesh. I beg of you to marry me. Say "Edward, give me my name". Say "Edward, I will marry you".

William Hurt - Rochester

“My honor is my work. There is none greater.”
William Hurt

“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.”
William Hurt - Luis Molina

“What we Tucks have, you can't call it living. We just... are. We're like rocks, stuck at the side of a stream.”

William Hurt - Angus Tuck

“You know, booze isn't really your drug of choice anyway. You're addicted to chaos. For some of us, it's coke. For some of us, it's bourbon. But you? You got hooked on disaster.”

William Hurt - Doyle's Sponsor

“- August Nicholson: If this place is worthy, she'll be successful in her quest.
- Mrs. Clack: How could you have sent her. She is blind.
- Edward Walker: She is more capable than most in this village. And she is led by love.”

Brendan Gleeson - August Nicholson
Cherry Jones - Mrs. Clack
William Hurt - Edward Walker

“Your mother needs you, Ellen! Jesus Christ, you got a Harvard education, but where is your heart?”

William Hurt - George Gulden

“- Rochester: Are you fond of presents?
- Jane Eyre: I hardly know. I have little experience of them.”
William Hurt - Rochester
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Jane Eyre

“The uses of information, disinformation, and how their use is ultimately... power. They have agreed to open up their operations to us, they can't win the war without us, but they don't really want us here... Intelligence is their mother's milk, and they don't like sharing the royal tit with people that don't have titles.”

William Hurt - Philip Allen

“- Arkady Renko: I always wanted to meet an American. You are so, so different. Forgive me for staring. Only once before did I ever meet an American, in the flesh, so to speak. A young student, Kirwell I think he was called. James Kirwell.
- Jack Osborne: Oh.
- Arkady Renko: But he was dead.
- Jack Osborne: That doesn't count then, does it?”
William Hurt - Arkady Renko
Lee Marvin - Jack Osborne

“Don't be afraid of death, Winnie. Be afraid of the unlived life.”
William Hurt - Angus Tuck

“- Eddie Jessup: I can't live with it Emily, the pain is unbearable.
- Emily Jessup: We all live with it. That unbearable terror is what makes us such singular creatures. We hide from it, we succumb to it, mostly we defy it! We build fragile little structures to keep it out. We love, we raise families, we work, we make friends. We write poems...”

William Hurt - Eddie Jessup
Blair Brown - Emily Jessup

“- Jack Osborne: There's a sliver of food on your upper lip.
- Arkady Renko: I'm just a plodding investigator, no style. Completely out of my depth. Oh, yes. Three bodies, three people, shot down and mutilated in Gorky Park, and me, I have food on my lip.
- Jack Osborne: Not even caviar at that. I somehow feel that the executioner, whoever he may...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lee Marvin - Jack Osborne
William Hurt - Arkady Renko

“Just remember that you're not just reading the news, you're narrating it. Everybody has to sell a little. You're selling them this idea of you, you know, you're sort of saying, trust me I'm, um, credible. So when you feel yourself just reading, stop! Start selling a little.”

William Hurt - Tom Grunick

“Ever since we dispensed with God we've got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaningless horror of life. That first self is real... and I'm going to find the fucker.”
William Hurt - Eddie Jessup

“You saved me. You redeemed me from the pit. I was in it, Emily. I was in that ultimate moment of terror that is the beginning of life. It is nothing. Simple, hideous nothing. The final truth of all things is that there is no final truth. Truth is what's transitory. It's human life that is real.”

William Hurt - Eddie Jessup

“Sometimes the shit comes down so heavy I feel like I should wear a hat.”
William Hurt - Ned Racine