Kevin Costner Quotes
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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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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We just here to do our job.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
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Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.
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I had the feeling that as a soldier I didn't do what I thought I had it in me to do, and wanted to do.
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I think at the end of the day she [Rose from "Fences"] is a strong woman in the truest sense of the word. I think all of that is in the narrative; it's already there. The hope is there; the playfulness is there; it's there. I wish I could take credit for it, but it's there.
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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
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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.
