Quotes from Kevin Costner

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

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

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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

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.

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

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

Failure doesn't kill you…it increase your desire to make something happen.

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

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

I wait and take on projects that I think can work.

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.

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.

I like American history.

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

It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him [Castro] and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.

I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.

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

Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if youre not good at them.

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.