I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level. - Kurt Russell
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
I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors. - Kurt Russell
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. - Kurt Russell
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
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. - Kurt Russell
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. - Kurt Russell
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
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
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. - Kurt Russell
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. - Kurt Russell
When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap. - Kurt Russell
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
