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Kevin Costner Quotes

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.

Kevin Costner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: January 18, 1955

Topics

Woman War People Thought Feel Long

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

John Malkovich

Truth Great World Think Doing True

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

Ann Beattie

People Name Now Even Correct

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

Michael Gambon

Belong Things Quite Learned Them

My main residence is Baltimore. I have an apartment in New York, one in San Francisco, and I live in a rental in Provincetown in the summer.

John Waters

Live New York Summer New Apartment

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

Tony Abbott

People Boat Australia Way Coming

The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.

Tom Stoppard

Good Leader Future Lie Generation

Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere.

Robert Anthony

Moving Fast Same Somewhere Going

When you're in government, you have a big impact in Washington, but Washington may not be doing very much.

Joseph Stiglitz

Government Impact Doing You Big May

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

Don Mattingly

Yourself Better Trying You Get Then

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.

Arabella Weir

Mistakes Write Greatest Because Most

I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

Anupam Kher

Man Old Man Year Old First Role

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

Anthony Hecht

Children Parents Elders Signs Reveal