Quotes from Kevin Costner

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

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

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.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

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

I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.

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

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.

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

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.

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.

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

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

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

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.

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.

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.

You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too.

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 haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.

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

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