Kevin Costner Quotes

My career needs to progress. Time's ticking.

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.

I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1.

I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.

If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films.

I am hoping for a long career.

When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of actor you want to be - and it only gets harder.

The best jobs will go to the best educated people.

Anyone with a job wants to hear about how to keep it or get a better one, not what a politician has to offer when workers find themselves with a pink slip.

When you get your dream job, you'd be really hard-pressed to leave it. Unless you've got another dream job out there.

I have the career that I want.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.

I've worked for a long time to get myself in a position where maybe I'd be fortunate enough to land one of the big jobs.

When people ask what my ambitions are for the rest of my career, I always say that I live in the present.

It's always good to have more promotions, give more fighters work.

I'm very career-driven.

I'm 25 years old; I've had a good career, and the best is yet to come. I want to fight for the next 10 years, which will be better than my first 10 years.

I'm just trying to do big things with my career all the time.

I want to concentrate on my career and would like to scale greater heights.

I want to go higher in my career. This is not my best. My best is yet to come.