110+ Kevin Costner Quotes (Charismatic, Versatile And Iconic)

Kevin Costner is an American actor, producer, director and musician. He is best known for his roles in films such as Dances With Wolves, The Bodyguard, Field of Dreams and JFK. He has won two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and one Emmy Award.

Top 10 Kevin Costner Quotes

1. I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
2. 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.
3. Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.
4. 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.
5. When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.
6. Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them.
7. If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
8. I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!
9. 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.
10. I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.

Kevin Costner Short Quotes

• Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
• Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
• Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?
• If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.
• I don't take much stock in other people's opinions if I think something's good.
• I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.
• I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.
• I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.
• You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.
• I will never forget what happened here tonight.people I went to school with will never forget.

Kevin Costner Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

I was in the show for 21 days once-the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains. — Kevin Costner

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. — Kevin Costner

I'm a 'what if' person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience. I have taken blows. I have had high moments. But I don't think the blows have ever hardened me. My enthusiasms are still big. — Kevin Costner

I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you're going to dream, you might as well dream big. A lot of that came from my mother. She was adamant about the work ethic---about how you can't just dream things. — Kevin Costner

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

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

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

Westerns aren't about the gunfight, even though it has to be there at one point. It's not what they're about, at least the good ones. It's about the drama. It's about the resourcefulness of men and women. — Kevin Costner

Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue when you hit the right note. — Kevin Costner

I always thought the leading actor should be the best supporting actor, because you're the only person that can help every other actor on the set. — Kevin Costner

I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O's and all the details and the technicalities. — Kevin Costner

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics. — Kevin Costner

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

There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters. — Kevin Costner

I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure. — Kevin Costner

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. — Kevin Costner

When you start searching for your name, you might be thrilled with what a lot of people say and it just takes one person. And it can hurt your feelings, but I have been aware of the fan bases and stuff like that and realize how deeply involved they are. — Kevin Costner

Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first. — Kevin Costner

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

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

I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't. — Kevin Costner

I would hate to see a UFO. Because it would ruin my life. I would have to talk about it the rest of my life, and everybody in the room would go, "Poor Kevin." Because you could not turn your back on the idea that you saw it. — Kevin Costner

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. — Kevin Costner

I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience. — Kevin Costner

I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe. — Kevin Costner

If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment. — Kevin Costner

When I read a story that I think has value and I want to be in it, that doesn't change for me. It doesn't fall out of favor for me. I might have to move on because the universe is saying you can't make this right now. But I'm going to circle back and make it. — Kevin Costner

It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history. — Kevin Costner

I've had moments in my life where it was all out on the table. Everything I had. I'm okay with that, because I had a strong belief that what I was doing other people could believe in it, too, if I can get it just right. — Kevin Costner

Sometimes it takes a partner to say, "What is it you want?" because I think we operate in life and sometimes we don't know. We're all in some kind of maze going after the cheese at the end, and we get it and we go, "What is it that we want?" — Kevin Costner

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

The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it. — Kevin Costner

I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived. I am cognizant of what I have done, and any of us could maybe draw the line better. But I've tried to live pretty fearlessly. — Kevin Costner

The movies helped define how I should be as a person. — Kevin Costner

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

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. — Kevin Costner

If somebody said my wife's not beautiful, I'd go, she is. I wouldn't say, really? No, she is. I know she is. In my mind, you know. — Kevin Costner

I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie. — Kevin Costner

Sometimes we worry about the things that you know that matter the least and don't focus on the things that matter the most. — Kevin Costner

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

My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world. My children look at me for a question and then they quickly look away because they know that I'm not going to know how to make Super Mario or do anything. — Kevin Costner

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. — Kevin Costner

I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good. — Kevin Costner

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things. — Kevin Costner

I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't. — Kevin Costner

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them. — Kevin Costner

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

It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do. — Kevin Costner

We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as the lie. — Kevin Costner

I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams. — Kevin Costner

I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so. — Kevin Costner

If I had a choice of having a woman in my arms or shooting a bad guy on a horse, I'd take the horse. It's a lot more fun — Kevin Costner

Life's better when it's fun. Boy, that's deep, isn't it? — Kevin Costner

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in. — Kevin Costner

I think that you try to raise the bar on whatever you do because you know, in this day of having to deal with a lot of reality TV, people say that scripted programming is dying, so you have to try to create something that can live in people's minds, long after they see it. — Kevin Costner

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. — Kevin Costner

I am not a cynic. — Kevin Costner

I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person. — Kevin Costner

You know, what if everybody's wrong in life? And so you have to live your life yourself. — Kevin Costner

It sounds vain, but I could probably make a difference for almost everyone I ever met if I chose to involve myself with them either professionally or personally. — Kevin Costner

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

I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions. — Kevin Costner

I like being around people that mean what they say. — Kevin Costner

I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving. — Kevin Costner

I've never changed my approach to acting. I've always felt like I've gotten better. I think that all of us can get better. I feel like, in my acting, I'm better than I was three pictures ago. I think about it. I'm a slow study. It takes me a long time to grasp the material, in order to perform it. But when I come to the set, on the first day, I know the whole movie. That's why I have to start early. — Kevin Costner

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

What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally. — Kevin Costner

If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie. — Kevin Costner

I'm a coach's coaching player. I like to be on the floor. So, if the coach tells me what to do out on the floor, I can get it done. I'm really comfortable being directed. — Kevin Costner

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form. — Kevin Costner

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

In my younger days, I used to pick up sluts, and I don't mean that nastily. It's more a term of endearment, really, for girls who know how to speak their minds. — Kevin Costner

I've been able to do a lot of things in the movies. I've been able to run with the buffalo, you know. I've been able to pitch a perfect game in Yankee Stadium. I've been in the bathtub with Susan Sarandon. I've had a lot of chances to do a lot of things. I enjoy sports, but I enjoy sports so much to the point that I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good. — Kevin Costner

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents. — Kevin Costner

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen. — Kevin Costner

I think I'm a pretty right down the middle guy. I just think that's kind of who I am. I'm not afraid of my own journey. — Kevin Costner

I think I just wanted to work when I finally came to Hollywood. That's what it was. I wanted to get a job, and then I wanted to get the second one. — Kevin Costner

When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live. — Kevin Costner

You're just as good, and if you work harder, you can be better and you can be more than you think you can. — Kevin Costner

When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been. — Kevin Costner

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

I deal with pressure. I have a tendency to probably be at my best under pressure. — Kevin Costner

True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel. — Kevin Costner

My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world. — Kevin Costner

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

Some people come to you because if you're in their movie, it'll help them raise money. And some people come to you because they think you're the person to play the part. — Kevin Costner

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. — Kevin Costner

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

It's nice to be wanted in almost any capacity. — Kevin Costner

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

We all have to have our north star that we fix on and go to, but life is so much about the things that bump into you. — Kevin Costner

Life Lessons by Kevin Costner

1. Kevin Costner has demonstrated that hard work and dedication can lead to success, no matter the odds. He has also shown that it is important to stay true to yourself and your values, and to never give up on your dreams. Lastly, he has shown that it is possible to achieve greatness through humility and kindness.