Kurt Russell

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We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Society
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For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Sports
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I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Sports
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I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Sports
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If I see one side of somebody, I want to see the other side.
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When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.
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Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
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I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting.
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I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.
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If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.
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I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.
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My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.
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I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work.
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If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.
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When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.
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I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.
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Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.
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I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.
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I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.
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I always look forward to working with Goldie because she's a great person to work with.
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I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.
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Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.
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I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that.
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We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.
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I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me.
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I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.
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When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.
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Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say: 'Do you want the criminals off the street or not?'
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Collection: Police
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I'm a reasonable guy, but I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Guy
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All movies are different, all movies have their own life.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Different
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I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian.
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Collection: Differences
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I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Thinking
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We all are capable of many different emotions and behaviors and thoughts and abilities and the way we sometimes respond to something is just very, it could be very, very different. You can one day feel this way, and the next day, feel that way.
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Collection: Next Day
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I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Baseball
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You can always tell somebody's sense of humor by if they like this movie or not.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Sense Of Humor
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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Love
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If Quentin Tarantino is your writer-director then you're going to learn the words and your gonna learn why they're the words. You're gonna learn why they're the best words to say.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Directors
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If you have a vision or if you believe the director has a vision, then at least you've got something to talk about, something to try and head to and I think that's mandatory for every director to have to do a good job.
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Collection: Jobs
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Baseball shaded my entire outlook on life, because that's how I first saw the world. I looked at everything, even today, through what I learned about the game. Like pacing yourself, focusing yourself, preparing yourself for what you want to do, keeping yourself healthy for the game. I do all that through the eyes of a ballplayer.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Baseball
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If I hold onto something it's because I want it not because I want to display it or show it to somebody else. I've got some cool stuff, I've got some cool things.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Want
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I think I've done a lot of movies that people would like to have seen a sequel to. But I grew up in a time when we didn't do sequels. You just did a movie because you wanted to do a movie and you wanted to tell a story. It wasn't to build a franchise.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Thinking
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I'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Remakes
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Ultimately your job as an actor is to perform however you're being asked to perform and there's many different procedures as an actor that you're going to run into that you should be prepared for and be ready to go to work and do the best you can and give the director the best thing you can to hopefully give him things on that day that could be shot preserved and out into a canned, then when they go into the editing room that's where a movie's made.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Running
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Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they work.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Vision
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You get burned a lot as an actor. You give somebody, you give some guy real free reign and he just doesn't know how to edit it properly. It just comes out messed up.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Real
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The legs feed the wolf.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Attitude
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I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Sports
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I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Thinking
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A great pinot chases its own tail. You drink it and you just keep finding new tastes that go with it. My dream was to make a world-class pinot and learn more about other wines as well.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Dream
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I hate giving away tricks, you have to create an impression and not an image. You want audiences to look at certain places and not look at other places. And when you've got the help of modern-day abilities with technology, it's a much more natural look.
- Kurt Russell
Collection: Hate