William Hurt Quotes
But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.
Hurt, William. Interview. The New York Times, The New York Times Company, 1989.
The commissioner was responding to questions about a player-fan brawl that had occurred earlier that year. The media had replayed the tapes of the event thousands of times. The commissioner’s observation applied to everyone in the public eye. Politicians too are so defined as when Edmund Muskie during the Presidential Primary contest cried or with Nixon’s attack on the press or Governor Dean’s scream in Iowa.
William McChord Hurt who is known by his credtied stage name as William Hurt is an American actor. He studied at the Juilliard School and began acting on stage in the 1970s. Hurt made his film debut in 1980 as a troubled scientist in Ken Russell's science-fiction feature Altered States, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year. In 1981 he played a leading role, as a lawyer who succumbs to the temptations of Kathleen Turner, in the neo-noir Body Heat. He played another leading role, as Arkady Renko, in Gorky Park (1983).
