Kevin Costner Quotes

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

I don't take much stock in other people's opinions if I think something's good.

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.

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.

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?

Life's better when it's fun. Boy, that's deep, isn't it?

When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.

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

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.

What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.

I will never forget what happened here tonight.people I went to school with will never forget.

I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived. I am cognizant of what I have done, and any of us could maybe draw the line better. But I've tried to live pretty fearlessly.

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.

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

If somebody said my wife's not beautiful, I'd go, she is. I wouldn't say, really? No, she is. I know she is. In my mind, you know.

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

I just tried to build on my failures.

I don't like definitions. I like four-hour movies.

I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.

I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him [Castro] and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.

It's nice to be wanted in almost any capacity.

Cowboy movies aren't supposed to be in vogue. I still like them. You know, I'm still out there pitching the hell out of them.

When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.

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.

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

I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it.

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

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

I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.

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

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.

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

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.

We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as the lie.

You know, what if everybody's wrong in life? And so you have to live your life yourself.

I deal with pressure. I have a tendency to probably be at my best under pressure.

It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.