Kevin Costner Quotes - Page 4

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

I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.

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

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

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.

When I read a story that I think has value and I want to be in it, that doesn't change for me. It doesn't fall out of favor for me. I might have to move on because the universe is saying you can't make this right now. But I'm going to circle back and make it.

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

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.

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

I don't like definitions. I like four-hour movies.

I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!

I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.

In my younger days, I used to pick up sluts, and I don't mean that nastily. It's more a term of endearment, really, for girls who know how to speak their minds.

I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.

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.

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.

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.

Westerns aren't about the gunfight, even though it has to be there at one point. It's not what they're about, at least the good ones. It's about the drama. It's about the resourcefulness of men and women.

I always thought the leading actor should be the best supporting actor, because you're the only person that can help every other actor on the set.

It's nice to be wanted in almost any capacity.

I've been able to do a lot of things in the movies. I've been able to run with the buffalo, you know. I've been able to pitch a perfect game in Yankee Stadium. I've been in the bathtub with Susan Sarandon. I've had a lot of chances to do a lot of things. I enjoy sports, but I enjoy sports so much to the point that I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.

I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.

I've had moments in my life where it was all out on the table. Everything I had. I'm okay with that, because I had a strong belief that what I was doing other people could believe in it, too, if I can get it just right.

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.

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