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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. "

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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. "

Kevin Costner

I Can

Want

Weird

" 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. "

" If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it. "

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

" I am not a cynic. "

Kevin Costner

Cynic

I Am

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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'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 work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics. "

" 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. "

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

" We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Kevin Costner

Life

You

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

Kevin Costner

Dreams

First

" 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 pretty convenient foil for a lot of people. "

" I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up. "

Kevin Costner

Hair

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