Quotes By Kevin Costner

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

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.'

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.

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.

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.

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

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.

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'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?

What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.

I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'