#be

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. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#actor #being #care #force #i

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up. ↗

— Bette Davis

#advantage #attractive #become #looking #make-up

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it brings is a means and not an end. The end is what it does to the lives, life-chances and hopes of people. Look at London. Of course it matters to all of us that London's economy flourishes. But the test of the enormous wealth generated in patches of the capital is not that it contributed 20%-30% to Britain's GDP but how it affects the lives of the millions who live and work there. What kind of lives are available to them? Can they afford to live there? If they can't, it is not compensation that London is also a paradise for the ultra-rich. Can they get decently paid jobs or jobs at all? If they can't, don't brag about all those Michelin-starred restaurants and their self-dramatising chefs. Or schooling for children? Inadequate schools are not offset by the fact that London universities could field a football team of Nobel prize winners. ↗

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

#capitalism #economics #education #london #morality

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#been #burning #could #especially #eyes

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. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#big #business #do the right thing #end #gets

I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#actually #because #college #difficult #difficult time

I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#actor #being #best #care #films

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#bear #biggest #come #demographic #flatten

I think we're lied to about a number of things. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#i #i think #lied #number #things

Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else. ↗

— Hannah Cowley

#be happy #body #else #every #happy