Kevin Costner Quotes
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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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The movies helped define how I should be as a person.
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I like American history.
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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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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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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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I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand 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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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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Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?
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I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.
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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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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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I like being around people that mean what they say.
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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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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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Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
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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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You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.
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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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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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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 wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.