Kevin Costner Quotes

If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.

I think I'm a pretty right down the middle guy. I just think that's kind of who I am. I'm not afraid of my own journey.

I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."

My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world.

I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.

The movies helped define how I should be as a person.

I think I just wanted to work when I finally came to Hollywood. That's what it was. I wanted to get a job, and then I wanted to get the second one.

If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."

It's nice to be wanted. That's a really good feeling. I'm not immune to it.

I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't.

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

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.