Rene Russo
Rene Russo
Rene Marie Russo is an American actress, producer and former model...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth17 February 1954
CityBurbank, CA
CountryUnited States of America
cool franklin history known literally months proud took watched
I'm so proud of myself. I thought, 'I've got to learn about American history.' I literally took two months off and watched every documentary known to man. I really didn't know Benjamin Franklin was so cool.
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I had to fend for myself from the time I was 17 years old. I was a high-school dropout. I wasn't quite living on the streets, but I didn't have a lot of hope.
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I grew up in Burbank - but not the Burbank of valet parking and TV studios. In the late 1950s, there was a small apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue that rented mostly to families on welfare. I lived there from age 3 to 11 and again from 14 to 18 with my mother, Shirley, and my younger sister, Toni.
boundaries crossed either people
I'm not the kind of person that would step on people just to get where I wanted to be, but I have crossed moral boundaries when I've either been afraid or desperate.
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I'll be honest with you: I'd rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it's just cool.
calling high jolly players tall wearing
By high school, I was already tall - 5-foot-8 - and one day I made the mistake of wearing green tights. The football players all started calling me the Jolly Green Giant.
basically wanting
I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.
thinking age naive
Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.
thinking different
I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.
film situation fearful
I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.
gambling people bulls
I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.
birthday beautiful believe
There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.
mother daughter envy
I envy my daughter's childhood.
real joy moments
Do I get up some days and feel competitive? Sure. Do I get up some days and feel afraid? Of course. But...I have real moments of joy now, and I know it will continue.