Quotes By Kevin Costner

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

I like American history.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I am not a cynic.

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

I like four-hour movies.

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.

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

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.

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

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

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.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

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

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

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.'