Quotes By Kevin Costner

I am not a cynic.

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

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.

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.'

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

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.

If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.

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.

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.

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.

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'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.

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.

If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.

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'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

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