Top 100 Costner Kevin Quotes
#1. You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.
Kevin Costner
#2. 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.
Kevin Costner
#3. I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."
Kevin Costner
#4. What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.
Kevin Costner
#5. 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.
Kevin Costner
#6. I can't remember any of the films I've done. You go from one to another, and they all blend in to a big mass. You remember the costumes because you remember how you felt - that Western I did with Kevin Costner where I wore the big hat and the two guns, I remember that.
Michael Gambon
#7. We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.
Kevin Costner
#8. 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.
Kevin Costner
#9. This January, Kevin Costner will be honored by the Palm Springs International Film Festival for his contribution to film. This gives Costner just two months to make a contribution to film.
Tina Fey
#10. 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.
Kevin Costner
#11. I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.
Kevin Costner
#12. If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.
Kevin Costner
#13. I think that you try to raise the bar on whatever you do because you know, in this day of having to deal with a lot of reality TV, people say that scripted programming is dying, so you have to try to create something that can live in people's minds, long after they see it.
Kevin Costner
#14. 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
#15. There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.
Kevin Costner
#16. It's still a trip for me to see somebody that I've only seen on television or in a movie. When they are there in real life, it's very different. When we played Detroit, Kevin Costner played before us.
Rodney Atkins
#17. I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.
Kevin Costner
#18. 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
#19. I deal with pressure. I have a tendency to probably be at my best under pressure.
Kevin Costner
#20. 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.
Kevin Costner
#21. 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.
Kevin Costner
#22. I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.
Kevin Costner
#23. I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.
Kevin Costner
#24. You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too.
Kevin Costner
#25. There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.
Steven Van Zandt
#26. I haven't had a perfect life ... but I have had a perfectly good life!
Kevin Costner
#27. When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
Kevin Costner
#28. Sometimes it takes a partner to say, "What is it you want?" because I think we operate in life and sometimes we don't know. We're all in some kind of maze going after the cheese at the end, and we get it and we go, "What is it that we want?"
Kevin Costner
#29. Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them.
Kevin Costner
#30. 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. It's a lot more fun
Kevin Costner
#31. President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
Kevin Costner
#32. True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel.
Kevin Costner
#33. The movies helped define how I should be as a person.
Kevin Costner
#34. 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.
Kevin Costner
#35. I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.
Jeremy Brett
#36. 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
#37. I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.
Garth Brooks
#38. 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.
Kevin Costner
#39. I will never forget what happened here tonight.people I went to school with will never forget.
Kevin Costner
#40. When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.
Kevin Costner
#41. 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.
Kevin Costner
#42. 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.
Kevin Costner
#43. We all have to have our north star that we fix on and go to, but life is so much about the things that bump into you.
Kevin Costner
#44. You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.
Kevin Costner
#45. I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.
Kevin Costner
#47. If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.
Kevin Costner
#48. I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.
Kevin Costner
#49. I dream of acting with Kevin Costner. I would love to do a movie with him. Not something funny, but a dramatic role.
Bill Engvall
#50. 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.
Kevin Costner
#51. 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
#52. Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.
Kevin Costner
#53. I'm probably one of the few people that liked 'Water World' with Kevin Costner.
Bert Blyleven
#54. When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.
Kevin Costner
#55. It's nice to be wanted. That's a really good feeling. I'm not immune to it.
Kevin Costner
#56. You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.
Kevin Costner
#57. My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.
Emma Watson
#58. 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.
Kevin Costner
#59. I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.
Kevin Costner
#60. If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.
Bob Odenkirk
#61. It sounds vain, but I could probably make a difference for almost everyone I ever met if I chose to involve myself with them either professionally or personally.
Kevin Costner
#62. 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
#64. When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.
Kevin Costner
#65. I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.
Kevin Costner
#66. I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
Joss Whedon
#67. What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.
Kevin Costner
#68. I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.
Chris Pine
#69. When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.
Kevin Costner
#70. You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.
Kevin Costner
#71. I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.
Kevin Costner
#72. I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.
Kevin Costner
#73. I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.
Kevin Costner
#74. I wait and take on projects that I think can work.
Kevin Costner
#75. A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.
Kevin Costner
#76. I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.
Kevin Costner
#77. You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.
Kevin Costner
#78. I always thought the leading actor should be the best supporting actor, because you're the only person that can help every other actor on the set.
Kevin Costner
#79. I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.
Kevin Costner
#80. It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.
Kevin Costner
#81. When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.
Kevin Costner
#82. I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.
Kevin Costner
#83. I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
Kevin Costner
#84. I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians ... To me, that's sexy!
Kevin Costner
#85. I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.
Kevin Costner
#86. I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.
Kevin Costner
#87. You're just as good, and if you work harder, you can be better and you can be more than you think you can.
Kevin Costner
#88. We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.
Kevin Costner
#89. I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.
Kevin Costner
#90. They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.
Julia Roberts
#92. There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.
Kevin Costner
#93. Failure doesn't kill you ... it increases your desire to make something happen.
Kevin Costner
#94. All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see 'em go here, I see 'em go there - but I just do my work.
Jeff Fahey
#95. My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.
Judd Nelson
#97. Kevin Costner. I love Kevin Costner. That's all I have to say. I love Kevin Costner.
Nathan Lane
#98. Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?
Kevin Costner
#99. 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.
Kevin Costner
#100. You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.
Kevin Costner
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