Latest Kevin Costner Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.

  Kevin Costner

  People, Band, Defining

• 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

  Moving, Fall, Thinking

• 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

  Hate, Ideas, Saws

• 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

  Journey, Thinking, Who I Am

• I've never had that fear of going against the grain.

  Kevin Costner

  Grain

• I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.

  Kevin Costner

  Grain, Persons, Contrary

• 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

  Beautiful, Wife, Mind

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

  Kevin Costner

  Want, Truth Is, Originals

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

  Kevin Costner

  Live Your Life, What If, Life Yourself

• Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

  Kevin Costner

  Artist, Trouble, Conventional Wisdom

• Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

  Kevin Costner

  Scary, What If, Conventional Wisdom

• 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

  Drama, Men, Gunfights

• 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

  Drama, Thinking, Want

• 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

  Storytelling, Western, Depends

• 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

  Hurt, Names, People

• Cowboy movies aren't supposed to be in vogue. I still like them. You know, I'm still out there pitching the hell out of them.

  Kevin Costner

  Cowboy, Pitching, Hell

• 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

  Worry, Focus, Matter

• I don't take much stock in other people's opinions if I think something's good.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, People, Opinion

• I deal with pressure. I have a tendency to probably be at my best under pressure.

  Kevin Costner

  Pressure, Tendencies, Deals

  "Kevin Costner Talks DRAFT DAY, His Career, What We Can Learn from the Movies, How GIANT Influenced His Outlook on Life, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 7, 2014.

• The movies helped define how I should be as a person.

  Kevin Costner

  Should, Persons

  "Kevin Costner Talks DRAFT DAY, His Career, What We Can Learn from the Movies, How GIANT Influenced His Outlook on Life, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 7, 2014.

• 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

  Children, Looks, World

  "Kevin Costner Talks DRAFT DAY, His Career, What We Can Learn from the Movies, How GIANT Influenced His Outlook on Life, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 7, 2014.

• 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

  Jobs, Thinking, Hollywood

  "Kevin Costner Talks DRAFT DAY, His Career, What We Can Learn from the Movies, How GIANT Influenced His Outlook on Life, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 7, 2014.

• 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

  Sports, Running, Yankees

  "Kevin Costner Talks MCFARLAND, USA, What Makes a Memorable Sports Movie, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2015.

• The kind of love that these young men have and the respect that they have for their fathers, I don't see that as much in America as you see in the Latino community, and it's really something to behold.

  Kevin Costner

  Father, Men, America

  "Kevin Costner Interview, McFarland, USA". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

• 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

  Hard Work, Thinking, Work Harder

  "Kevin Costner Interview, McFarland, USA". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.