Top 120 Kevin Costner Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Here’s the thing – the accent is cool. It’s like a girl with big breasts – they get your attention first.”

— Kevin Costner

53. “I don’t have a seller’s remorse about how I’ve lived.”

— Kevin Costner

54. “I’m getting those familiar feelings, and I’m just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.”

— Kevin Costner

55. “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

56. “I haven’t tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.”

— Kevin Costner

57. “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

58. “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

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

— Kevin Costner

60. “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

61. “I want to live forever, and I know I won’t. I’m not afraid of dying. I’m only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.”

— Kevin Costner

62. “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

63. “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

64. “If it’s fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that’s a movie.”

— Kevin Costner

65. “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

66. “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

67. “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

68. “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

69. “I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of “thumbs up, thumbs down.””

— Kevin Costner

70. “I didn’t realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.”

— Kevin Costner

71. “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.”

— Kevin Costner

72. “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

73. “I try to please myself. I don’t try to anticipate what people want to see.”

— Kevin Costner

74. “Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?”

— Kevin Costner

75. “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

76. “You’re this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.”

— Kevin Costner

77. “I wait and take on projects that I think can work.”

— Kevin Costner

78. “There’s a moment in time where kids really don’t want to hear anything from their parents.”

— Kevin Costner

79. “There’s real drama in performing live. You never know how it’s going to be.”

— Kevin Costner

80. “I’ve always known that I’m a little out of vogue.”

— Kevin Costner

81. “When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.”

— Kevin Costner

82. “If you don’t understand your limitations you won’t achieve much in your life.”

— Kevin Costner

83. “The movies helped define how I should be as a person.”

— Kevin Costner

84. “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

85. “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.”

— Kevin Costner

86. “I’ve always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, “You’re the only person who can play this part.””

— Kevin Costner

87. “One person doesn’t have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn’t do well.”

— Kevin Costner

88. “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.”

— Kevin Costner

89. “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

90. “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

91. “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

92. “I think there’s true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.”

— Kevin Costner

93. “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

94. “I wouldn’t do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.”

— Kevin Costner

95. “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

96. “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

97. “I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That’s what a man does.”

— Kevin Costner

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

— Kevin Costner

99. “I like being around people that mean what they say.”

— Kevin Costner

100. “I don’t think I ever take huge risks, though I’m not scared of doing so.”

— Kevin Costner