Kevin Costner Quotes

I hope I can live up to the faith that has been put in me to do a good job.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

I'm an actor, and I think some of us who are drawn to this work know what it is to desperately want to be loved and validated: to be good at something and not be able to do it; to come in second on countless projects; or told that you were the first choice, but the part went to that guy who had that TV show in the '90s.

The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

I have a relatively good track record.

I think he's accomplished so much, I don't think it's fair to put me in the same category as Coach Payton. I think, hopefully, if you achieve even close to what he has in this league, then maybe you start to get mentioned.

I'm just worried about what I'm doing. Case has played well, and Case is doing a great job. But at the same time, I'm not going to concern myself with him.

I want to be amongst the top 10, if not top five filmmakers. Though I don't think I'd stand even in the list of top 30 actors.

I was tested against the best.

Always let your work talk for yourself. No matter how much you give interviews or how much you are written about, it is always the performance which counts.

I want to prove to the skeptics that I'm not a clown. I'm very serious about what I do. I want to be a good ski jumper who has a sense of humor.

I debuted in Bollywood without inhibitions, and I don't want to develop any fears now. Nothing is more detrimental to an actor than the lack of total surrender.

Sometimes I feel like I have a good shot, and then I see somebody that has a better shot.

I've always thought like I'm really a 3-feet-high comic trapped in a leading man's body... but then I played Nicholas Nickleby, and suddenly I was heroic.

I'm not satisfied with being ranked second and third.

Knowing that I can play with some of the best out there is definitely encouraging.

You enjoy that as a player, though, going up against the best, just try and see how you stack up.

I know I can play with the best of them. I can be one of the best in the world at one point in time.

The guys in the top five, they're good everywhere. Me, I'm just almost one-dimensional.

I won't say I am a premier bowler or anything, because we are all trying to work hard, and whoever gets the opportunity wants to do well.

I always wanted to do good work and play strong parts.