Kevin Costner Quotes
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I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.
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I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'
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There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.
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Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.
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I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.
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What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.
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We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
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I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.
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I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.
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We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.
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I wait and take on projects that I think can work.
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I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.
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I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived. I am cognizant of what I have done, and any of us could maybe draw the line better. But I've tried to live pretty fearlessly.
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I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.
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Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
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I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.
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When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.
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When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
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I am a really writer-oriented actor.
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If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.
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When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.
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I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.
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I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.
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I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.