"I was a science fiction junkie for a long time."
-William Hurt
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"Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.“
-William Hurt
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"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."
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"Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure."
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"Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful."
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"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."
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"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
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"They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do."
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"I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal."
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"People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are."
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"Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous."
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"I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional."
-Jon Carroll
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