Kevin Costner Quotes

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.
Kevin Costner

Life, Trying, Understand

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.
Kevin Costner

Live, Afraid, Able

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.
Kevin Costner

Love, Sorry, Tell

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

Pretty, Convenient, Foil

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

Life, Understand, Won

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

Beautiful, Woman, Celebrity

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.
Kevin Costner

Life, Money, Care

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

Change, Movies, Popular

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.
Kevin Costner

Love, Fear, Eyes

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, Forward, Live

We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.
Kevin Costner

Best, Rock, Children

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

Life, Dreams, Wonderful

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.
Kevin Costner

Politics, Business, End

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

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.
Kevin Costner

Time, Movies, Crisis

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

Life, Dreams, Reality

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

Someone, Feelings, Enjoy

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

Around, Knew, Scene

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

Sure, Wreck, Wrecked

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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Time, Him, Made

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

Greatest, Ridiculed, Speaker

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
Kevin Costner

War, Down, Nation

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.
Kevin Costner

Heart, End, Game

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

Try, Cynicism, Dismiss

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

Failure, Happen, Desire

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Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: January 18, 1955

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