265 Quotes by Kevin Costner

I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you’re going to dream, you might as well dream big. A lot of that came from my mother. She was adamant about the work ethic – about how you can’t just dream things.

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

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

True movies will never be measured by how much they make – they’ll be measured by how they make you feel.

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.