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Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
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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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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.
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I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.
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I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.
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Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.
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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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If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.
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One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.
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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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I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.
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I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.
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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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I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.
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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.
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I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.
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I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
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I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.
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If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
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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.
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When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
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I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.
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I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.
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I am not a cynic.
Written by Kevin Costner

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