Kevin Costner Quotes
I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I'm an iPod person.
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I wrote my first play when I was eight.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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When you say 'Yes' or promise something, you can very easily deceive yourself and others also, as if you had already done what you promised. It is easy to think that by making a promise you have at least done part of what you promised to do, as if the promise itself were something of value. Not at all! In fact, when you do not do what you promise, it is a long way back to the truth.
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I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."
