E.S. Russell Quotes

You shouldn't eat animals, it's mean to them.

The Holy Spirit ain't got a pen.

When you bump into your own mom at an orgy, it's hard not to get her to read into certain things.

I'm a vegetarian. I believe that we're all equal. I ain't got no right to kill. Say a fly comes in my house, I tolerate that little a**hole.

Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.

If anybody needs any help with anything, I'm prepared to help.

It doesn't take an incredible manner of analysis to reveal that our primary desires are incessantly stimulated to keep us basic consumers.

If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.

The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things.

The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.

If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.

I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to."

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

I read the bible often, not just to prepare for "Noah". I believe it is a very important book.

This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life. So to actually make a new No. 1 is spectacularly stupid.

Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

I have a new horse. I get her to come to me from half a mile away. With just a simple call. That's because she knows that when she's with me, she's taken care of. She trusts me.

I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.

My days, if they start in the morning with a cuddle from my son, are just so much more glorious than they were prior to that.

The thing about films is you learn new stuff all the time. You think you can get to a point where you've got it all down. But then another, different situation arises.

It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary.

Are you not entertained?

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

Charleston was where America split apart in 1861. Maybe it's where America comes together in 2015.

Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required for an adult audience.

Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions.

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.

I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.

If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.

Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart.

Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.

My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.

Is there an existence that is only mine?

Life is a process of one goneness after another.

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

A family is everybody all together.

I have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head.

Sometimes there's nothing but Sundays for weeks on end. Why can't they move Sunday to the middle of the week so you could put it in the OUT tray on your desk?

Who is Alice?" asked mother. "Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy.

In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.

I wish to confess my sins and I wish Christ to come into my life.

I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.

Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.