Kurt Russell quotes:

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

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.

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

If I see one side of somebody, I want to see the other side.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me

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.

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.

I always look forward to working with Goldie because she's a great person to work with.

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.

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.

We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.

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.

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

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.

All movies are different, all movies have their own life.

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.

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.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that.

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.

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.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

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.

I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.

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.

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball

If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know.

I'm a reasonable guy, but I've just experienced some very unreasonable things...

I'm not a good collector.

I'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them.

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.

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

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.

The legs feed the wolf.

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.

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.

You can always tell somebody's sense of humor by if they like this movie or not.

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.