American - Actor | January 18, 1955 -
There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.
Kevin Costner
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.
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I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.
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I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.
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I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.
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