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" What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it. "

Kevin Costner

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Vietnam

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Kevin Costner

Movies

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

Kevin Costner

Stay

People

" 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. "

" There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be. "

" 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'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

" 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'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. "