Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

- John Hurt

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

- John Hurt

I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes…

- John Hurt

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

- John Hurt

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry …

- John Hurt

I am really the victim of other people's imagination.

- John Hurt

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

- John Hurt

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

- John Hurt

Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but …

- John Hurt