265 Quotes by Kevin Costner

Sometimes it takes a partner to say, "What is it you want?" because I think we operate in life and sometimes we don't know. We're all in some kind of maze going after the cheese at the end, and we get it and we go, "What is it that we want?"

Sometimes we worry about the things that you know that matter the least and don't focus on the things that matter the most.

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

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

When I read a story that I think has value and I want to be in it, that doesn't change for me. It doesn't fall out of favor for me. I might have to move on because the universe is saying you can't make this right now. But I'm going to circle back and make it.

I would hate to see a UFO. Because it would ruin my life. I would have to talk about it the rest of my life, and everybody in the room would go, "Poor Kevin." Because you could not turn your back on the idea that you saw it.

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

I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.