Joe Russo Quotes

There's nothing I hate more than going to see a movie and thinking, 'That could have been an hour shorter.'

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Carefree

• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Because
  • Canada
  • Incentive

• I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Film
  • Interested
  • Student

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Eighty

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Problem
  • Professional

• In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • People
  • American
  • House

• My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Family
  • Mother

• I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Live
  • Children
  • School

• 'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!

  

  Randy West
  • Experience
  • Never Forget

• In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Dating

• I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Song
  • Day
  • Everyday

• All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Way
  • Support
  • Personal

• I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

  

  Ed Helms
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Sick

• There's a green room at the Oscars. It's really small, very warm, and it's really fun because you get to see everyone just lounging on couches. It's right before you go out to present, so it's everyone in there. And then they have this crudite section, and cheeses and crackers.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Fun
  • Small
  • Present

• Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Rebel
  • Paid
  • Renegades

• We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movie
  • You
  • Alien

• What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Matter

• There's nothing I hate more than going to see a movie and thinking, 'That could have been an hour shorter.'

  

  Joe Russo
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