Kurt Russell Quotes
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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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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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It's not easy making money as an actor. It's just not an easy thing to do. There's so many that want to do it and so few opportunities to do it that it's not as easy as it would seem.
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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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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.
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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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The legs feed the wolf.
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I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.
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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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I'm not a good collector.
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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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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.
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I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.
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All movies are different, all movies have their own life.
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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.
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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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I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know.
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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 started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me
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I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.
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I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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You can always tell somebody's sense of humor by if they like this movie or not.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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