My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
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Being a painter is a lonely, desolate life, but I learned by observing people, observing conditions around me, the way things worked. And I've found that painting-which I still do-has helped me a great deal as an actor. There's a surprising amount in common.John Hurt
It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
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I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.
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This used to be just FM 1325, a little old farm road. And now State Highway 45, which is the new toll road, will run through here and actually follow the old 1325 alignment, continue across what was Louis Henna and eventually connect with State Highway 130, another toll road.
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maybe what we today would call a nerd or a geek.
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I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.
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