Kevin Costner Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.”
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“I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O's and all the details and the technicalities.”
-- Kevin CostnerSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.”
-- Kevin CostnerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.”
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“You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.”
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“I like being around people that mean what they say.”
-- Kevin CostnerSource : "Kevin Costner Talks DRAFT DAY, His Career, What We Can Learn from the Movies, How GIANT Influenced His Outlook on Life, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 7, 2014.
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“Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.”
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“I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.”
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“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.'”
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“My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world.”
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“Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them.”
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“What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.”
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“When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.”
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“It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.”
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“I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”
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“Sometimes it takes a partner to say, "What is it you want?" because I think we operate in life and sometimes we don't know. We're all in some kind of maze going after the cheese at the end, and we get it and we go, "What is it that we want?"”
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“I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does.”
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“It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.”
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“I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.”
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“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.”
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“I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.”
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“I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.”
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“It's nice to be wanted. That's a really good feeling. I'm not immune to it.”
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“Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.”
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“I've been evolving in my stunt career Stunts have always had their place, and I have to measure them now. I've done things where, if I make a mistake, I could die. You really need to look at each thing. That usually is a mechanical failure. So, I have gone from doing everything, to listening and saying, "Maybe I shouldn't do this."”
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“I've never changed my approach to acting. I've always felt like I've gotten better. I think that all of us can get better. I feel like, in my acting, I'm better than I was three pictures ago. I think about it. I'm a slow study. It takes me a long time to grasp the material, in order to perform it. But when I come to the set, on the first day, I know the whole movie. That's why I have to start early.”
-- Kevin Costner
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