--- title: "10 Trying Quotes By Kevin Costner" description: "10 Trying quotes by Kevin Costner. Plus more from Kevin Costner and more Trying sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f45/kevin-costner-2386_be-true-to-yourself_you-can-spend-your-life-trying-to-be-pop_470646.jpg" --- > [You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/you-can-spend-your-life-trying-to-be-popular-and-that-s-a-tricky/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f45/kevin-costner-2386_be-true-to-yourself_you-can-spend-your-life-trying-to-be-pop_470646.jpg) > [You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/you-have-to-try-to-dismiss-the-loudness-of-cynicism-it-s-certainly/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63c/kevin-costner-2386_come_you-have-to-try-to-dismiss-the-loudness_570904.jpg) > [I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/i-try-to-please-myself-i-don-t-try-to-anticipate-what-people-want-to/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa5/kevin-costner-2386_anticipate_i-try-to-please-myself-i-don-t-try-to-an_1684778.jpg) > [I think that you try to raise the bar on whatever you do because you know, in this day of having to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/i-think-that-you-try-to-raise-the-bar-on-whatever-you-do-because-you/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/346/kevin-costner-2386_bars_i-think-that-you-try-to-raise-the-bar-on_1428235.jpg) > [I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/i-haven-t-lived-a-perfect-life-i-have-regrets-but-that-s-from-a/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29d/kevin-costner-2386_chance_i-haven-t-lived-a-perfect-life-i-have-re_2622773.jpg) > [When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/when-you-try-to-portray-people-s-lives-you-try-to-make-sure-you-don-t/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/102/kevin-costner-2386_century_when-you-try-to-portray-people-s-lives-y_2440689.jpg) > [There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/there-are-a-lot-of-things-that-come-to-bear-on-movies-now-that-i-don/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e2/kevin-costner-2386_movie_there-are-a-lot-of-things-that-come-to-b_1089990.jpg) > [I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/i-think-if-you-want-to-make-a-good-sports-movie-you-ve-got-to-cut/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ec/kevin-costner-2386_cutting_i-think-if-you-want-to-make-a-good-sport_975007.jpg) > [I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/i-think-these-movies-are-as-much-for-people-of-that-time-as-for/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a0/kevin-costner-2386_born_i-think-these-movies-are-as-much-for-peo_508414.jpg) > [I think it's hard for people to suspend the era they live in and understand the decisions that had to be made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/i-think-it-s-hard-for-people-to-suspend-the-era-they-live-in-and/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa5/kevin-costner-2386_benefits_i-think-it-s-hard-for-people-to-suspend_3144257.jpg) ## Other authors on Trying ## More by Kevin Costner > [I would hate to see a UFO. Because it would ruin my life. I would have to talk about it the rest of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/i-would-hate-to-see-a-ufo-because-it-would-ruin-my-life-i-would-have/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) > [I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/i-think-religion-is-a-funny-thing-because-when-you-see-somebody-who/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) > [We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/we-stand-our-best-chance-of-leaving-a-legacy-to-those-who-want-to/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) > [I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/i-don-t-give-up-i-m-a-plodder-people-come-and-go-but-i-stay-the-course/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) > [We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/we-all-have-that-burning-question-about-what-happens-if-we-lose/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) > [I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/i-have-instinctually-thought-i-could-do-things-in-my-life-and-i/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) > [I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/i-work-for-the-public-for-the-people-who-are-paying-to-go-to-the/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) > [You're just as good, and if you work harder, you can be better and you can be more than you think you can.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/you-re-just-as-good-and-if-you-work-harder-you-can-be-better-and-you/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) > [I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/i-believe-in-the-soul-the-small-of-a-woman-s-back-the-hanging/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) > [Westerns aren't about the gunfight, even though it has to be there at one point. It's not what they're about, at least the good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/westerns-aren-t-about-the-gunfight-even-though-it-has-to-be-there-at/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) > [If somebody said my wife's not beautiful, I'd go, she is. I wouldn't say, really? No, she is. I know she is. In my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/if-somebody-said-my-wife-s-not-beautiful-i-d-go-she-is-i-wouldn-t-say/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) > [Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/here-s-the-thing-the-accent-is-cool-it-s-like-a-girl-with-big-breasts/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) > [I don't take much stock in other people's opinions if I think something's good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/i-don-t-take-much-stock-in-other-people-s-opinions-if-i-think/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) > [The kind of love that these young men have and the respect that they have for their fathers, I don't see that as much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/the-kind-of-love-that-these-young-men-have-and-the-respect-that-they/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) > [We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-costner/we-still-live-with-this-unbelievable-threat-over-our-heads-of-nuclear/) [Kevin Costner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-costner/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trying/kevin-costner/#itemlist", "name": "10 Trying Quotes By Kevin Costner", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. 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