Keri Russell Quotes

We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

It's not the same without Jerry. It never will be.

My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?

No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever.

There are not many things that can happen much worse to a family than having a member taken and not knowing what happened to them.

Chris' absence is very much felt. There's just a huge void in our home life.

When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise, etc. Even if you do, sometimes there's a side of things that don't necessarily gel the way people intend. So there a bit of a mystical entity, film.

I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much...so, so much.

If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

If people enjoy the film, it can be really intriguing to see what created that film, how each one of those unique components came together, who the people are who did it and what it meant to them to do it.

Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone?

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .

We would do improvisation together. And that in a way, had almost a "student-film side" where we'd be sitting there with Robert Downey and Jon Favreau and we're playing around, we're jamming around and we read those pages and in next couple of days that's what we do, so it was a good experience. Kind of frightening at first because you didn't quite know how it was going to work out, but they had some very talented people there so it worked out well.