Kurt Russell Quotes

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

I went to school for me - I didn't do it to make any sort of statement. So the very first year I was in school, I wasn't there under my own name. It was very incognito.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

Every day, I feel I can do more things - not as a character but as myself.

I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking about what role I play. I don't have to be a movie director or this or that. I just want to be part of projects and places that are of interest to me.

I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

Do what you want to do. Do what you like to do.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

One creates oneself.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.