When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am. – 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
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
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. – Kevin Costner
I think there’s true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of. – Kevin Costner
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. – Kevin Costner
You have to decide if you’re going to wilt like a daisy or if you’re just going to go forward and live the life that you’ve been granted. – 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
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. – 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’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
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’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.’ – 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
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
I’m getting those familiar feelings, and I’m just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again. – 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