Kevin Costner Quotes

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Kevin Costner

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 18, 1955

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

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I wait and take on projects that I think can work.

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I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

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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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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.

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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.

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

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Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

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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.

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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.

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You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too.

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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 don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

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

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When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

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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.'

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I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'

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

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Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

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