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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.

Kurt Russell

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Kurt Russell
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: March 17
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Baseball Player
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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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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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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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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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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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 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 got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that.
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The legs feed the wolf.
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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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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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If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.
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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'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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I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.
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I'm not a good collector.
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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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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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We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.
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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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