Kevin Costner Quotes

• 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.

  Kevin Costner

• If you’re willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you’re sorry? You need to, even when you think you’re in the right.

  Kevin Costner

• 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.

  Kevin Costner

• If you think of ‘Liberty Valance’ or ‘The Searchers,’ there are moments in there that you’ll never, ever forget… And it does not matter what century you are from.

  Kevin Costner

• If you don’t understand your limitations you won’t achieve much in your life.

  Kevin Costner

• If it’s going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.

  Kevin Costner

• I’ve had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that’s OK with me. I don’t feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

  Kevin Costner

• I’ve been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don’t compete with them.

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• I’ve always known that I’m a little out of vogue.

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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’m only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.

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• I’m in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I’m in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It’s a weird vibe.

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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’m getting those familiar feelings, and I’m just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.

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• I’m a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.

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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.’

  Kevin Costner

• 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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• I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.

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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 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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Kevin Costner (66)

Birth:	18th January, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Businessman, Director, Singer

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