Kevin Costner Quotes

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.

I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

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

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

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

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

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.

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

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.'

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

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.

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.

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

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!

I like being around people that mean what they say.

There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that.

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.

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.

You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.

You're just as good, and if you work harder, you can be better and you can be more than you think you can.

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

I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.

True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel.

It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.

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

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.

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.

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

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.

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.

Some people come to you because if you're in their movie, it'll help them raise money. And some people come to you because they think you're the person to play the part.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

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.

Sometimes we worry about the things that you know that matter the least and don't focus on the things that matter the most.

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

I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.

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.

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

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.

I'm a coach's coaching player. I like to be on the floor. So, if the coach tells me what to do out on the floor, I can get it done. I'm really comfortable being directed.

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.

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

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

I've never had that fear of going against the grain.

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.

I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience.

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

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.

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.