The subconscious mind takes your fears as a request, proceeds to manifest them, and brings them into your experience. - Joseph Murphy
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. - 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
Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not? - 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 first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get. - 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
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
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.
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.