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" 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. "

Kevin Costner

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

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Kevin Costner

Hair

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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