Kevin Costner Quotes
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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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I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.
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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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I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.
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There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.
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I like four-hour movies.
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I am not a cynic.
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If somebody said my wife's not beautiful, I'd go, she is. I wouldn't say, really? No, she is. I know she is. In my mind, you know.
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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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When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.
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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'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 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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President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
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I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.
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You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.
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Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
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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 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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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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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'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.
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I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.
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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.