Kevin Costner Quotes

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

Tried, Rolling, Dice

I like American history.
Kevin Costner

History, American

I like four-hour movies.
Kevin Costner

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

Hair, Face, Stands

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

Time, Live, Pretty

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.
Kevin Costner

Off, Stand, Paid

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

True, Drama, Standing

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

Try, Please, Anticipate

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

Work, Wait, Projects

I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.
Kevin Costner

Upbringing, Sucked, Vortex

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

Work, Rather, Public

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

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

Person, Why, Film

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

Live, Real, Drama

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

Done, Often, Situation

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

Children, Value, Lucky

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

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

Job, Working, American

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.
Kevin Costner

Politics, Business, End

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.
Kevin Costner

Movies, Sports, Sunday

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.
Kevin Costner

Good, Women, Men

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.
Kevin Costner

Time, Movies, Crisis

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.
Kevin Costner

Time, Him, America

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
Kevin Costner

War, Down, Nation

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.
Kevin Costner

Heart, End, Game

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Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: January 18, 1955

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