Kevin Costner Quotes

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Kevin Costner

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 18, 1955

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.

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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'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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There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

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

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I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

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I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.

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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.

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You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

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One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.

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I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

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I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.

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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 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 don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.

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I am not a cynic.

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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.

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We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

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I like American history.

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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.

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