Kevin Costner Quotes
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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 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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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 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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I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
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I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.
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I like four-hour movies.
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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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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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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 had moments in my life where it was all out on the table. Everything I had. I'm okay with that, because I had a strong belief that what I was doing other people could believe in it, too, if I can get it just right.
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I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.
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If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
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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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I think that you try to raise the bar on whatever you do because you know, in this day of having to deal with a lot of reality TV, people say that scripted programming is dying, so you have to try to create something that can live in people's minds, long after they see it.
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I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.
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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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You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too.
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I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.
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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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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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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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We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.
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I am not a cynic.