Kevin Costner Quotes

I think I always had, like, a rebellious spirit. But it wasn't a rebellious spirit to do wrong. It was a rebellious spirit to do something different.

I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

I am anti-ideological. Ideology destroys your freedom. It binds you to the herd.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself.

Do you want to be strangely various, or do you want to be purely yourself? Either way, revere no one.

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

If that's what everybody else is doing, that is not what I'm going to do!

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

I don't play by those rules; I'm my own worst enemy sometimes. There's something in me that has to go against the grain. You know, I don't like to be a dead fish, swimming with all the other dead fish, I like to go upstream sometimes, against the flow.

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.

I don't want to follow the herd.

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.