Kevin Costner Quotes
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Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
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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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Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?
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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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I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.
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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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When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.
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If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day.
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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 believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
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If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.
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True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel.
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I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.
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I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you're going to dream, you might as well dream big. A lot of that came from my mother. She was adamant about the work ethic---about how you can't just dream things.
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I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.
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You know, what if everybody's wrong in life? And so you have to live your life yourself.
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When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.
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I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.
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I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.
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Sometimes it takes a partner to say, "What is it you want?" because I think we operate in life and sometimes we don't know. We're all in some kind of maze going after the cheese at the end, and we get it and we go, "What is it that we want?"
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In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.
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I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!
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I was in the show for 21 days once-the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.
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I've been evolving in my stunt career Stunts have always had their place, and I have to measure them now. I've done things where, if I make a mistake, I could die. You really need to look at each thing. That usually is a mechanical failure. So, I have gone from doing everything, to listening and saying, "Maybe I shouldn't do this."