E.S. Russell Quotes

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.

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.

The legs feed the wolf.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.

Do not think that you are too busy to study the gospel.

Be involved; be informed. Try to be understanding and tolerant and to appreciate diversity.

We should seek at all times to purify ourselves and to lead such worthy lives that the Light of Christ emanates from us in all that we say and do.

Our love for our Father in Heaven and the Lord Jesus Christ needs to be reflected in our daily choices and actions. They have promised peace, joy, and happiness to those who keep Their commandments.

When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.

We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.

Righteousness has never precluded adversity.

I'm not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I'm writing something that I hope is fun and satirical and full of possibility.

You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.

I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

The characters Im most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You dont see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

Tradition was safety; change was danger.

Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

Instead of taking a year off, I started Dreamers of the Day exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for A Thread of Grace to the publisher!

The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.

I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.

Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.

Fashion is a capricious deity.

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

There is no running away from a great grief.

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other - also for diction. Her words paint.

I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.