Kevin Costner Quotes
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You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.
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I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.
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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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Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.
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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'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.
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I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.
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You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too.
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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've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?
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I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
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I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.
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I've never changed my approach to acting. I've always felt like I've gotten better. I think that all of us can get better. I feel like, in my acting, I'm better than I was three pictures ago. I think about it. I'm a slow study. It takes me a long time to grasp the material, in order to perform it. But when I come to the set, on the first day, I know the whole movie. That's why I have to start early.
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If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
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Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?
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I like four-hour movies.
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I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does.
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If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.
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One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.
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I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.
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If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.
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You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.
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We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.
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I am not a cynic.