Kevin Costner Quotes
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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'm a 'what if' person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience. I have taken blows. I have had high moments. But I don't think the blows have ever hardened me. My enthusiasms are still big.
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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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Life's better when it's fun. Boy, that's deep, isn't it?
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I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."
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It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.
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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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I think I just wanted to work when I finally came to Hollywood. That's what it was. I wanted to get a job, and then I wanted to get the second one.
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We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as the lie.
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I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.
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Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.
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The kind of love that these young men have and the respect that they have for their fathers, I don't see that as much in America as you see in the Latino community, and it's really something to behold.
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The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.
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Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue when you hit the right note.
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If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.
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I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.
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I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.
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I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O's and all the details and the technicalities.
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There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.
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Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
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It's nice to be wanted. That's a really good feeling. I'm not immune to it.
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I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience.
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Sometimes we worry about the things that you know that matter the least and don't focus on the things that matter the most.
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My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world.