Kevin Costner Quotes

If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.

Kevin Costner

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• If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Long
  • Desire
  • Deep

• I enjoy three meals a day, and 90 per cent of what I eat is vegetarian and homemade. I occasionally eat non-vegetarian, and chicken preparations are my favourite.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Day
  • Enjoy
  • Chicken

• I have four horses, and they are my everything.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Everything
  • Four
  • Horses

• Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • True
  • Star
  • Sun

• He is Mr Piano Man, I am Miss Piano Man.

  

  Elton John

• You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when Gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at that scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Great
  • Country
  • Hope

• The so-called Defense of Marriage Act is a valueless tradition that, like laws against interracial marriage that were finally overturned by the Supreme Court in 1967, undermines the spirit of love and commitment that couples share and sends the wrong message to society.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Society
  • Marriage
  • Commitment

• One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.

  

  Marilyn Nelson
  • Writing
  • School
  • Book

• All my album artwork is body painting.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Painting

• I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I believe acknowledging our own mistakes is half the problem solved.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Believe

• I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because maybe those things were steppingstones to where I am now.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • Career

• In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • House
  • Health care

• I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.

  

  David Lindsay-Abaire
  • People
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.

  

  Allyson Schwartz
  • Life

• It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.

  

  Alfred Einstein
  • Present

• I feel secure in my life, and I'm happy with where I'm at. I realise in some ways how enchanted my life's been. I could have ended up on a bench outside Stoke station begging for money. I was one of the lucky ones.

  

  Neil Morrissey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• On right-to-life, see the Republicans flee from Todd Akin, who committed a gaffe while restating his support for what has been a plank of the Republican platform since 1980.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Life
  • Support
  • Been

• My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Trying
  • She
  • Wife

• You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.

  

  Jonathan Coe
  • Writing
  • Mad

• I've got a lot of folks who want to get rid of TSA, a bunch of them.

  

  Mike Rogers
  • Want
  • Bunch
  • Folks

• If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Sports movie