Kevin Costner Quotes
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When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.
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I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.
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I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.
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I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.
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I've been able to do a lot of things in the movies. I've been able to run with the buffalo, you know. I've been able to pitch a perfect game in Yankee Stadium. I've been in the bathtub with Susan Sarandon. I've had a lot of chances to do a lot of things. I enjoy sports, but I enjoy sports so much to the point that I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.
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I think I'm a pretty right down the middle guy. I just think that's kind of who I am. I'm not affraid of my own journey.
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I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.
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There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that.
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My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world. My children look at me for a question and then they quickly look away because they know that I'm not going to know how to make Super Mario or do anything.
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I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.
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What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.
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It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.
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I would hate to see a UFO. Because it would ruin my life. I would have to talk about it the rest of my life, and everybody in the room would go, "Poor Kevin." Because you could not turn your back on the idea that you saw it.
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I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.
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I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't.
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I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'
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There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.
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I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.
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We really don't rest if we think our kids are drifting, or if we think they don't have the right work ethic. It drives us crazy. Because we ultimately want them to succeed and, until they do, we feel in some way that something is not complete.
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In my younger days, I used to pick up sluts, and I don't mean that nastily. It's more a term of endearment, really, for girls who know how to speak their minds.
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I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."
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Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.
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It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him Castro and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.
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Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them.