Kevin Costner Quotes

The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

I don't think I've ever had a plan or direction for myself. I've actually made decisions based more on what I didn't want to do than what I wanted to do.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

As I get older, I have a clearer sense of what's important to me.

I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.

I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going.

I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see what you most deeply care about… and find a home.

Sometimes life is so crazy, you have to go through something to be able to find out what you're supposed to talk about next, and I think that's what happened to me.

I think the terminology I would use is 'a continuous process of reflection'. I've always thought of only two questions that have mattered to me personally. One is what is really needed in the world and the second is what's really important to me and how these two intersect. It's always been a reflective process - spiraling around these two poles.

I acknowledge that I have no idea who the hell I am, and I think that's the first step.

The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want.

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.

Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

It's not something that I can put on and take off anymore, like I said, I've had my years of confusion and wondering who I really (was) and why and how do I live my life and make sense of it all, but I'm not confused about that any longer. I think the world might be -- but I'm not.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?