David O. Russell quote: "I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess."

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they&...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thin...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear t...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.
DAVID O. RUSSELL

I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm dr...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in so...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get thr...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.
DAVID O. RUSSELL

'The Fighter' was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, a...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most d...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes f...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war w...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fight...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing ...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other....
DAVID O. RUSSELL

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is y...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, &...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can g...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination.
DAVID RUSSELL

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
DAVID RUSSELL

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
DAVID RUSSELL

The present is a point just passed.
DAVID RUSSELL

If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do...
DAVID RUSSELL

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn
DAVID RUSSELL

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.
DAVID RUSSELL

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
DAVID RUSSELL

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
DAVID RUSSELL

I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail o...
DAVID RUSSELL

If the price is very cheap then it's almost certainly a fake.
DAVID RUSSELL

After six months of talking about this ordinance we've only talked about office space once, ... Ever...
DAVID RUSSELL

It just doesn't make any sense, ... Many don't even have an address. That's why they are here. Peopl...
DAVID RUSSELL

I think they know we're not trying to poach here, we're just trying to help,
DAVID RUSSELL

They said, 'To be honest with you, Little Rock would not be our first choice, but we appreciate it,'...
DAVID RUSSELL

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic
DAVID RUSSELL

Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination
DAVID RUSSELL

My son is a good person, its a terrible tragedy that we're dealing with today but this is not indica...
DAVID RUSSELL

Our cars were fast at Daytona, but we needed reliability. This test also enabled us to try a variety...
DAVID RUSSELL

We don't feel we should be charged for helping the city do its job.
DAVID RUSSELL

I'll call whatever I want. It works out because Dennis is such a great setter.
DAVID RUSSELL

I only saw 10 yards on that first one, but I was able to break it, ... It seemed to get everyone pum...
DAVID RUSSELL

I only saw 10 yards on that first one, but I was able to break it. It seemed to get everyone pumped ...
DAVID RUSSELL

To see their level of maturity and the way they handle customers, it is very refreshing.
DAVID RUSSELL

It's the same-old story for us. No one has taken the (scoring) load off (Dudley).
DAVID RUSSELL

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being l...
DAVID RUSSELL

My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of co...
DAVID RUSSELL

My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than ...
DAVID RUSSELL

If the price is very cheap then it's almost certainly a fake.
DAVID RUSSELL

It's a constant struggle for them. They're ex-offenders. Doors are closed in their face.
DAVID RUSSELL

This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.
DAVID O. MCKAY

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
DAVID O. MCKAY

The secret of getting things done is to act!
BENJAMIN O. DAVID

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
DAVID O. MCKAY

Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbli...
DAVID O. SELZNICK

Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.
DAVID O. MCKAY

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God...
DAVID O. MCKAY

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatre...
DAVID O. MCKAY

It is better to be trusted than to be loved.
DAVID O. MACKAY

There are only two classes - first class and no class.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.
DAVID O. MCKAY

Money is being made programmable. That's a fundamental change with implications we can still bar...
DAVID O. SACKS

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

Let us realize that:the privilege to work is a gift,the power to work is a blessing,the love of work...
DAVID O. MCKAY

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literatu...
DAVID O. MCKAY

Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.
DAVID O. MCKAY

The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.
DAVID O. MCKAY

Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glo...
DAVID O. MCKAY

Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even...
DAVID O. MCKAY

Let my assure you, Brethren, that some day you will have a personal Priesthood interview with the Sa...
DAVID O. MCKAY

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I ge...
DAVID O. SELZNICK

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
DAVID O. MCKAY

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its i...
DAVID O. SELZNICK

I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

At this rate, I'll live forever.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

Thank God for your mother.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

Life is not a funfair, life is a warfare
DAVID O. OYEDEPO

If you allowed PayPal to pursue its destiny, there are moves it could make to become the largest fin...
DAVID O. SACKS

There is some risk that if the wrong regulatory regime gets adopted in the U.S., then the center of ...
DAVID O. SACKS

Almost any illiquid asset today lends itself well to moving onto the blockchain and becoming tokeniz...
DAVID O. SACKS

After PayPal, I never thought I would get interested in payments again. But bitcoin is fulfilling Pa...
DAVID O. SACKS

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially m...
DAVID O. MCKAY

Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they fo...
DAVID O. MCKAY

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.
DAVID O. MCKAY

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of w...
DAVID O. MCKAY

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the soul...
DAVID O. MCKAY

The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
DAVID O. MCKAY

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRY

You have to open up on stage.
KAREN O

I was a complete outsider in high school.
KAREN O

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of k...
KAREN O

Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
KAREN O

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
KAREN O

Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so ...
KAREN O

I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
KAREN O

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
KAREN O

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems fro...
KAREN O

I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
KAREN O

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when...
KAREN O

I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and...
KAREN O

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint ...
KAREN O

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.
KAREN O

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
KAREN O

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
KAREN O

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of so...
KAREN O

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
KAREN O

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. HENRY

The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he trave...
O. HENRY

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
O. HENRY

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. HENRY

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn...
O. HENRY

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of peopl...
O. HENRY

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRY

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
O. HENRY

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. HENRY

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. HENRY

I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my lif...
O. HENRY

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owner...
O. HENRY

Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY

I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, ...
STEVE-O

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New...
O. HENRY

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HENRY

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's w...
O. HENRY

I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist.
STEVE-O

Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, st...
STEVE-O

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words wh...
O. HENRY

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the soci...
O. HENRY

There's definitely some parallels between me and Joaquin Phoenix, I think. The line gets so blur...
STEVE-O

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citiz...
O. HENRY

Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appe...
STEVE-O

I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some poin...
STEVE-O

The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling ...
O. HENRY

The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about...
STEVE-O

I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateb...
STEVE-O

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owne...
O. HENRY

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. HENRY

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HENRY

Christmas Isn't About Receiving, Its About Giving.
EZEKIEL O

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take...
O. HENRY

When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched i...
STEVE-O

Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur.
STEVE-O

Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 It is not necessary to maintain a conversati...
O. HALLESBY

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of...
O. HENRY

What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way o...
STEVE-O

I have a rescue dog named Walter, and Walter and I are such fans of the 'Jersey Shore' that ...
STEVE-O

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of goo...
STEVE-O

I don't go around lecturing people and telling them they shouldn't eat meat. I just don'...
STEVE-O

No friendship is an accident.
O. HENRY

My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.
STEVE-O

Take it from me - he's got the goods.
O. HENRY

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. HENRY

I have been really enjoying making a project out of seeking out an extremely healthy diet of raw, or...
STEVE-O

Live not in the depressive past, nor the anxious future, but NOW.
ANNA O

I think people will be surprised to find that I'm not as much of an idiot as they think I am. I&...
STEVE-O

I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have...
STEVE-O

When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my...
STEVE-O

Nowadays Love Is A I Want Not I Need
EZEKIEL O

You can't taste victory until you've tasted defeat
EZEKIEL O

Don't go fixing other people's problems until you know yours is fixed
EZEKIEL O

Happiness Is What We All Want, Therefore Not All Of Us Can Get It Because We Quit Easily
EZEKIEL O

Don't Mind The Mind
EZEKIEL O

She had
become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the
air he breathed-...
O. HENRY

Be The Voice They Can Follow Out Of Darkness
EZEKIEL O

He had the artistic metempsychosis which is half drunk when sober and looks down on airships when st...
O. HENRY

It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
O. HENRY

I may not like sleep but it's always there when I need it
EZEKIEL O

Don't Be Sorry When You Did Nothing
EZEKIEL O

You can't keep a bird in a cage forever.
EZEKIEL O

There's Violence in your slience
EZEKIEL O

If you give up on life just know death hasn't given up on you, your best choice is to keep on going ...
EZEKIEL O

can't ask for help if you didn't do the work can you now?
EZEKIEL O

No team is easy to beat, They work just as hard
EZEKIEL O

When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I po...
STEVE-O

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of p...
O. HENRY

At this point, I've really failed at a lot of things. It's nice to be able to say that, in a...
STEVE-O

I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span th...
STEVE-O

When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an 'issue-by-issue' basis - they interview...
STEVE-O

I have a tough stomach, and I've put myself through a lot. But when I first found out what happe...
STEVE-O

I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.

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I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.

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