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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. "

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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. "

Kevin Costner

Movies

You

Think

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

" 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'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 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. "

" 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 haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice. "

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

Kevin Costner

Hair

" When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors. "

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

Kevin Costner

Value

Know

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

" I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people. "

" 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 like American history. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right. "

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

" Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life. "

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

" 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. "

Kevin Costner

Know

Stand

" 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. "

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

" 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'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

" 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?' "