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Kevin Costner

lines on the record: 121
first: 2015-11-16
most recent: 2015-11-16
sittings or episodes: 1
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“And I was almost in my own field of dreams moment. And it's like, there was some tears coming down. He goes, you know, I hope, you know, he goes, I came out of that goddamn fucking dust bowl. And I just, when I got a job, Kevin, I didn't want to lose it. I was going to hold on to that because I knew there'd always be food on the table. And I said there was. There was. I mean, and there was a really kind of just an amazing mom. My dad sitting there going, and I'd long since been able to take care of myself. I didn't need gas money from him when I'd go visit him. And it was just a, you know, I don't know if you ever had a moment like that, but I had that. And I didn't want him to tear up. He'd given me everything that he could give me. And it was just one of those moments. And, you know, I won't. I'll always remember that.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And have the fireplace in the bed. So he had us on a mantoline. So I'm like look at him, yeah. And he starts to talk to me. He says, you know, you had all the things you wanted, right? And I go, yeah, of course I did. He goes, and you never felt like there was anything we didn't provide money. He started going down this trail of... Did we have enough? And he looked at me because he was always so worried that I would go into acting. He thought, you know, a guy should work, work. And I know he was unsure. And then he was able to see the success that I had. And so I think I wonder if he was thinking at some point. I hope I never derailed you. But nevertheless, he's going down this path. You had what you wanted. Your mom and I did the best we could. And he looked at me and he said, you know I never took a chance in my life.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is on my property. But it was to be honest, it was a typical day other than the fact that something broke and I really had to fix it. It just was a, he watched. He watched me work. And now the day was done and I was up in, and I don't take baths for the most part, but I was up in my room and I'm taking a bath. I really beat the shit. I'm really beat up. And the door opens and my dad walks in. So imagine he can go, what the hell's going on here? And he walks in and he and I'm in the bathroom and I don't know. I'm not going to sink down, but I'm thinking maybe, I don't know what it is. And kind of like a dog who can't find a place to stand, he kind of walks a little bit in circle and finally puts his arm on the hearth or up on the mantle. And I say that because when I design this house, I always wanted a fireplace in the bathroom.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I understood that a guy had to work. That's what I was about. And I had a real big problem up on the property. And they literally watched me solve it all day long. I never stopped working. And at the end, I was actually going underwater and plugging something. You know, I mean, I was like that cold water up there. And he watched me. This is”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I had been working up in Aspen. I have a ranch up there and working very much like I work here. And it got to put a little bit of context too, a little bit. My dad was a worker. And when he would try to teach us to work, it was like we'd mow the lawn and we'd be done at an early age. And he'd go, well, did you edge it? And he goes, didn't edge it, right? So the next time we mowed it and edge it, he goes, did you wash it off? He was a bit of a taskmaster in a way. So it was very difficult to get it exactly right. You know, man does a job right. And a lot of that came from the dust bowl because he saw when 100 guys were being lined to dig the same ditch. And he used to say to me, he said, there'd be 100 guys, dig this thing. If you don't dig it.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Big deal. I don't want my letterman's jacket in this sport, and I want it in basketball. And my mom promised me I'd grow. I mean, I literally was running around the house, jumping up and touching the header on every door going, what in the hell? 5'2". Cute. I can't be this. I can't. And I'd say to my mom, which you do, you go, mom, am I going to grow? I swear to God, am I going to grow? And she goes, I promise you, you're going to.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was really rough and tumble. I mean, I remember they asked me to go out for the wrestling team because I could get my varsity letter right. You get a varsity letter. And I said, no, I'm going to be a basketball player because I had always dreamed of, you know, doing the layups to the Hawaii 5.0 theme because that's what I saw when I was a little kid. I was a good athlete, but I said, no, I'm going to be that. And they go, well, you're not going to make the varsity, you know, at 5'2". They go, you could wrestle at 96 pounds, right? Get your varsity letter. And I thought, I don't want that. But they go, well, just go try. So I went out and wrestled with the one kid that was 96. I just threw him all over the place. Ragged all the time. I just, you know, I didn't get him in any classic wrestling. I'm in a headlock and he wine. He was like whining. I wasn't going to let him up. I really dominated him, but I thought.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, Mark Twain said it, you know, he said, look, if a man lived his life correctly, he's never forgotten his childhood. He's never given it up.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, he'd look at me, and I was like, I was thinking, man, I'm a bit of a fuck up. I don't get it right. You know, it's like I know to bring it back, but I'm having so much fun. I was a classic 10-year-old, 12-year-old, just, you have so much fun, you almost can't. Think of the consequences”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just, I couldn't keep track. I was like any kid. Oh, God. I keep track of you. When you see those street lights come on, you come home. Or when I'd go build a fort, you bring my tools back, or when you take your sports stuff out, you don't leave your ball out, you know. The hammer, the saw would be left at the fort. But my dad would go down to where I'm building a fort back came the saw and it was all rusty.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I was really, I played a lot and I played until I had to come home when those streetlights came on. And of course I didn't. And here come my father dressed almost like I am right now in blue jeans and blue shirt. He was a lineman for Edison. And when they were faded jeans, it wasn't because they were designers. They were faded because they just got washed a billion zillion times. And he was as handsome as Paul Newman, I got to tell you. He'd come looking for me and I'd see that finger man and I'd like be running across the street trying to get around him to get home. I just couldn't keep certain things in my head, you know?”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was a sophomore. I was 16 years old, and the reason I can say that is because, you know, when you get your license, the first thing people want to do is look at it, especially the girls, right? They want to look at your picture. And of course, I hand them my picture over, and then there it is, 87 pounds, five foot two, 16 years old. I was looking below the wheel of my dots pickup when I drove. I was itty bitty. I began to grow in my senior year and grow into college, but I wasn't not a senior. I wasn't 5'2", but that was kind of humiliating after about the fourth or fifth girl said, hey, look at that, that's really cute, 5'2", and I took my license out. I never let anybody look at it again.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, but I can remember really being behind the curve a few times because my parents would say, hey, look, you got to be able to speak your mind, you know, in these circles, whatever you need to do. But what I found was... I was speaking my parents' mind. And I was not coming off very well in a way. I was militant about things I didn't even know about. And I began to sense that, that I didn't have a bigger view. I had their view. And, you know, it hasn't hurt me in my life to have a conservative view, but I'm not my eyes, the scales came off my eyes a long time ago about things.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wanted to sit next to me playing Mozart. So the music came out of the church. I'd take my conservative outlook came in it. Also, it also probably clouded me. I was a late learner on things because I would adopt my parents' point of view. What was talked about at that kitchen table was mine. Vietnam was going on. If you were against the war, you were bad. If you had long hair, you were bad. My brother went into Marines. So if somebody hated the Marines, I hated them. I was like 13 or 14. And so as I was moving into high school, I wasn't very evolved in a sense there's nobody that would say, no, just because somebody has long hair doesn't mean they're dumb doesn't mean they're anti establishment, anti-America. But in fact, that's what I saw. And I had to really fight really a long time.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I tell you, I was always staring out the window and I was taught to be a teacher that wanted to train a concert pianist. So there was no boogey woogie. There was no, you know, it was all, I mean, the closest thing I got to rock was green sleeves. Everything else was the classics. And my mom, being in a conservative background, she goes, no, that's what the teacher wants. You don't step outside that line. And so after about three and a half years of staring out the window watching everybody play ball, which is what I do. I'm a sports guy. My mom really got tired of feeling that she had pinned me down to that chair. And she said to me, she said, you're going to be really sorry you gave this up. Because I was pretty good. I was able to transpose anything. So I really could have, I mean, if they would have let me play a little rock song and some little girl would have sat next to me, I probably never would have given it up. But, you know, no one.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So my conservative foundation was right in place. My dad would put me in my place right in the middle of church. You know, I mean, I could be launched right out of that seat for whatever. And also, you know, when you drink the blood of Christ, it was that grape juice. And, you know, I loved pretending it was whiskey after church was over because they had those like little glasses that you'd see in the cowboy movies. And I'd like to just knock it back. And boy, I tell you, my dad was just a no-nonsense guy about that. But, you know, I also grew up with music in the Baptist church. And so that was.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Good question. I tell you, it obviously affected it. Came up in a really conservative background. My dad's from Oklahoma and tough guy fist fighter, very hard-knuckled people, and came in during the Dust Bowl. I mean, if you think of Tom Jode, that's my family. They lost everything and had to come out here.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't think they were worried about that. I think they just, my parents, I tell you, really, you know, I mean, a lot of people I know, they look back in their childhood and maybe wasn't the greatest or what mine was pretty good. Mine was very Huckleberry Finn if it was. And a lot of that had to do with my parents were very focused in on their kids. I mean, my dad and my mom were at every little league game, everything. So when people aren't able to, you know, when I've talked to people go, you know, my dad never came to one thing. And probably a reason for it, but I didn't have that experience. We didn't have a lot of money, but it was my backyard was my kingdom. And when my dad got home, we went to work in it.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I didn't for very long. I actually didn't like it because of that idea that all these kids were in the school and the teacher's impact could be the best it could be. I was way ahead when I went into that school, the school I had come from in Los Angeles, I was really far ahead. And my parents picked up on that really quick. And since I was such a rascal, they thought, man, he's not doing anything. And I was smart enough to keep my mouth shut about being way up on this stuff. But they moved me right out of that school really quickly back into, I think, a parochial school, which is they don't mess around, as you know.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. It was like, I think the first through the sixth grade. So I don't know. There could have been 60 of us. I'm not sure. Maybe not even that many.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was born in Linwood, California, lived in Compton in 1955 and was there for about six, seven years and then ended up actually moving up in this general area here between Ohi and Santa Paula. a single street went to a one-room schoolhouse.”
2015-11-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT