William Hurt Quotes

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.

I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much

Hostage taking is hell on a human scale.

I was held up at gunpoint a month after I won Miss South Africa.

Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

I remember the moment in which we were taken hostage in Libya, and we were asked to lie face down on the ground, and they started putting our arms behind our backs and started tying us up. And we were each begging for our lives because they were deciding whether to execute us, and they had guns to our heads.

I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.

As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.

When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.

They are being exploited by terrorists.

Dad never demonstrated any fear, although my sisters and I lived in terror he’d be killed by an assassin.

… a blackmailer and psychopath.

The guillotine governs.