13 Quotes & Sayings By Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner is a Golden Globe-nominated American film and theatre actor, director, producer, and musician. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards, three Golden Globes, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, two BAFTAs, and ten Emmy Awards for his work in film and television. In 2002, Costner received the National Medal of Arts from President George W. Bush Read more

He has been inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame multiple times, was ranked seventh in the 2012 TIME 100 List of "Most Influential People in the World," and was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2013.

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If developing ties to this world and exercising love and compassion are not the very point of us -- I cannot presume to know -- then we are at least better occupied in this way, I feel, than with the riddles of other worlds, which only prove impossible for us to solve and unhealthy even to ponder. Kevin Costner
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Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments. Kevin Costner
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Life's better when it's fun. Boy that's deep isn't it? Kevin Costner
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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
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Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life. Kevin Costner
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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. Kevin Costner
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Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen. Kevin Costner
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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. Kevin Costner
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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?' Kevin Costner
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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
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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. Kevin Costner
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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