Kevin Costner Quotes
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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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Cowboy movies aren't supposed to be in vogue. I still like them. You know, I'm still out there pitching the hell out of them.
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I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it.
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When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.
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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.
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I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.
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When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.
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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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I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.
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Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
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I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.
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I'm a coach's coaching player. I like to be on the floor. So, if the coach tells me what to do out on the floor, I can get it done. I'm really comfortable being directed.
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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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When I read a story that I think has value and I want to be in it, that doesn't change for me. It doesn't fall out of favor for me. I might have to move on because the universe is saying you can't make this right now. But I'm going to circle back and make it.
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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 afraid of my own journey.
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The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.
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Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?
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I think it's hard for people to suspend the era they live in and understand the decisions that had to be made often during the western frontier era were life and death. You had to be resourceful and on your feet to try to figure out somebody. You didn't have the benefit of knowing who somebody was.
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You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.
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If I had a choice of having a woman in my arms or shooting a bad guy on a horse, I'd take the horse.
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I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.
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I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.
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Life's better when it's fun. Boy, that's deep, isn't it?