Kevin Costner Quotes - Page 2

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.

It sounds vain, but I could probably make a difference for almost everyone I ever met if I chose to involve myself with them either professionally or personally.

I've never had that fear of going against the grain.

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.

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.

I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.

I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you're going to dream, you might as well dream big. A lot of that came from my mother. She was adamant about the work ethic---about how you can't just dream things.

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

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.

Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue when you hit the right note.

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

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

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

If somebody said my wife's not beautiful, I'd go, she is. I wouldn't say, really? No, she is. I know she is. In my mind, you know.

The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.

Some people come to you because if you're in their movie, it'll help them raise money. And some people come to you because they think you're the person to play the part.

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.

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

I don't take much stock in other people's opinions if I think something's good.

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.

I just tried to build on my failures.

I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.

What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.

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.