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" 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. "
Kevin Costner
Sports
Sunday
Joy
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" I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them. "
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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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" 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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" 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?' "
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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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" I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it. "
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Look
Good
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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 haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice. "
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" Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life. "
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Wonderful
Our
" You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too. "
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" If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life. "
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" 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. "
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Never Forget
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" 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. "
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Loved
Day
Home
" 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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Life
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You
" You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come. "
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Cynicism
Dismiss
Going
" 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. "
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Think
Situation
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" I am a really writer-oriented actor. "
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Really
" 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. "
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End
Game
Heart
" President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat. "
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Coward
Solution
War
" 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. "
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" I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people. "
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" 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. "
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" If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it. "
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Want
Make
" I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been. "
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" I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them. "
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Been
Steal
" When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am. "
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Value
Me
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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You
Forget
Liberty
" 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. "
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" I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived. "
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