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"I always look forward to working with Goldie because she's a great person to work with"

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Kurt Russell’s line is Hollywood politeness with a tell: it’s so clean it almost dares you to look for what’s being left unsaid. “I always look forward” is the industry’s safest superlative, the kind of phrase actors deploy when they know every interview becomes a headline. It promises enthusiasm without offering anything quotable enough to get him in trouble. The compliment lands on process, not performance. He doesn’t say Goldie’s “brilliant” or “transformative.” He says she’s “a great person to work with” - code for reliability, ease, professionalism, and the priceless on-set asset of not making the day harder than it needs to be.

That subtext matters because Russell and Goldie Hawn aren’t just co-workers; they’re one of pop culture’s long-running couples, and their public image trades on a particular fantasy: the famous relationship that looks low-drama, funny, functional. Praising her as a “person” rather than an icon quietly reinforces that brand. It frames their partnership as something ordinary enough to be stable, even as the camera keeps insisting it’s extraordinary.

The repetition - “work with...work with” - reads accidental, but it also performs sincerity: he’s not polishing a line, he’s affirming a lived routine. In an entertainment ecosystem addicted to rivalry narratives, the intent is disarmingly strategic: keep the story on warmth and teamwork, not gossip, not ego, not the myth of the tortured set.

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Russell, Kurt. (n.d.). I always look forward to working with Goldie because she's a great person to work with. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-always-look-forward-to-working-with-goldie-84340/

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Russell, Kurt. "I always look forward to working with Goldie because she's a great person to work with." FixQuotes. Accessed February 3, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-always-look-forward-to-working-with-goldie-84340/.

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"I always look forward to working with Goldie because she's a great person to work with." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-always-look-forward-to-working-with-goldie-84340/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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Kurt Russell (born March 17, 1951) is a Actor from USA.

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