costner Quotes

“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.”

“I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?”

“Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.;Angie Stone;dreams 15254;A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.;Chin-Ning Chu;dreams 15255;In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.;Tom Hiddleston;dreams 15256;There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams.;Katy Perry;dreams 15257;She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.;Jamie Foxx;dreams 15258;Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.;Aziz Ansari;dreams 15259;Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.;Paul Gauguin;dreams 15260;I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.;Ferdinand Porsche;dreams 15261;Learn from your dreams what you lack.;W. H. Auden;dreams 15262;I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.;Brian Eno;dreams 15263;I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.;Tori Amos;dreams 15264;In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.;Loretta Young;dreams 15265;With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.;Marco Rubio;dreams 15266;Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.;Marco Rubio;dreams 15267;We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.;Marco Rubio;dreams 15268;The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.;Marya Mannes;dreams 15269;The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.;Paracelsus;dreams 15270;Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?;Stephen LaBerge;dreams 15271;There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.;Tyra Banks;dreams 15272;Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.;Georges Bataille;dreams 15273;Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.;Conan O'Brien;dreams 15274;Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned.;Emile Durkheim;dreams 15275;Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.;Jawaharlal Nehru;dreams 15276;People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.;Max Beerbohm;dreams 15277;We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.;Max Beerbohm;dreams 15278;Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.;Amos Bronson Alcott;dreams 15279;My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.;Kim Elizabeth;dreams 15280;Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.;Jean Baudrillard;dreams 15281;All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.;Otto Dix;dreams 15282;I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.;Christopher Nolan;dreams 15283;Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.;Giorgio Armani;dreams 15284;I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.;Kathy Acker;dreams 15285;I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.;Jane Pauley;dreams 15286;Saddle your dreams before you ride em.;Mary Webb;dreams 15287;Genius is an African who dreams up snow.;Vladimir Nabokov;dreams 15288;Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.;Catherine Deneuve;dreams 15289;So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.;Suze Orman;dreams 15290;I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.;Susan Sontag;dreams 15291;We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.;Doris Lessing;dreams 15292;Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.;Robert Conklin;dreams 15293;I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.;Lenny Kravitz;dreams 15294;As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.;Samuel Taylor Coleridge;dreams 15295;I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.;LL Cool J;dreams 15296;Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.;Benjamin Carson;dreams 15297;If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.;Vin Diesel;dreams 15298;I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.;Liza Minnelli;dreams 15299;Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.;Langston Hughes;dreams 15300;We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.;Thomas S. Monson;dreams 15301;I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.;Annie Lennox;dreams 15302;My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.;Anthony Hopkins;dreams 15303;My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.;Clay Aiken;dreams 15304;Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.;John Updike;dreams 15305;People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.;Ralph Lauren;dreams 15306;Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.;Wallace Stevens;dreams 15307;Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.;Paul Wellstone;dreams 15308;Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.;Jackie Gleason;dreams 15309;Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.;Lawrence Welk;dreams 15310;It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.;Michael Bloomberg;dreams 15311;Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.;Michael Bloomberg;dreams 15312;Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.;Danica McKellar;dreams 15313;Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.;Lester B. Pearson;dreams 15314;It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.;Spike Lee;dreams 15315;Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.;John Malkovich;dreams 15316;I have those dreams that you can't put into words.;Harry Connick, Jr.;dreams 15317;I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.;Jessica Lange;dreams 15318;I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.;Hugh Hefner;dreams 15319;A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.;Umberto Eco;dreams 15320;Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.;Debby Boone;dreams 15321;My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.;Imelda Marcos;dreams 15322;My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.;Imelda Marcos;dreams 15323;I've had dreams about tricks.;Shaun White;dreams 15324;Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.;Jean Genet;dreams 15325;My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.;Liberty Hyde Bailey;dreams 15326;Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.;Antonio Tabucchi;dreams 15327;I love watching people's dreams come true.;Jessica Simpson;dreams 15328;And our dreams are who we are.;Barbara Sher;dreams 15329;You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.;James Blunt;dreams 15330;Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.;Bill McCartney;dreams 15331;I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.;Jean Paul Gaultier;dreams 15332;My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.;Derek Jeter;dreams 15333;I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.;Jon Meacham;dreams 15334;You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.;Mark Victor Hansen;dreams 15335;Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.;Julio Cortazar;dreams 15336;From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.;Paracelsus;dreams 15337;Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.;Kevin Costner;dreams 15338;I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.”

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

“I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'”

“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.”

“I like American history.”

“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.”

“I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.”

“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.”