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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. "

Kevin Costner

You

Forget

Liberty

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" I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films. "

" When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am. "

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Know

" You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Know

Stand

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

" I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course. "

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Stay

People

" 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. "

" I am not a cynic. "

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Cynic

I Am

" I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been. "

Kevin Costner

Than

Think

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

" Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know? "

" In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected. "

" 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. "

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

" When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation. "

" I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing. "

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

" I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular? "

Kevin Costner

Movies

Defines

" I like American history. "

" 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. "

" 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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Traffic

Her

" 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. "

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

" 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. "