Kevin Costner Quotes

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

Kevin Costner

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• The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Politics
  • President
  • Once

• What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Up
  • Job
  • Writer

• I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Up
  • Family
  • Game

• Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Capitalism
  • Fascism
  • Plus

• Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Water
  • Influence
  • Ice

• Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

  

  Mae West
  • Important
  • Success
  • Personality

• Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • War
  • Deep

• Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Fighting
  • Creating
  • Method

• In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Divorce

• Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Job
  • Career
  • Know

• L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.

  

  Paige Craig
  • People
  • Business
  • Creative

• I often get too emotionally involved in my cases.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Involved
  • Often
  • Emotionally

• I had a very funny family.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Family
  • Funny
  • Very

• If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Respect

• Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Taken
  • Years

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Believe
  • Why

• In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Man

• Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

  

  Sade Adu
  • World
  • Food
  • Lost

• A good director makes a playground and allows you to play.

  

  Martin Landau
  • Good

• See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.

  

  Kim Coates
  • Listening
  • Bible

• [President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.

  

  George Will
  • Mind
  • Politics
  • President

• The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Writing
  • Drawing

• I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

  

  Kevin Costner