Kevin Costner Quotes

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Kevin Costner

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 18, 1955

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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I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

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I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

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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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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.

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I am a really writer-oriented actor.

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There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

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You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

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I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.

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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.

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I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.

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Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?

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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.

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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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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.

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I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.

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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.

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I like four-hour movies.

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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.

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We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.

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