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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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" 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. "

Kevin Costner

America

Time

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" 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. "

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

" 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 split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse. "

" I like four-hour movies. "

Kevin Costner

Movies

" 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. "

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

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

" I like American history. "

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

" I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched. "

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

" 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?' "

" I am not a cynic. "

Kevin Costner

Cynic

I Am

" I am a really writer-oriented actor. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kevin Costner

Value

Know

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

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