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Costner knows his strengths and limitations. "I can't fix my car," he says, "though I play characters who can. I can't work my computer. I don't understand certain financial things, though I'm really good with the bottom line. I flunked geometry twice. My mind just doesn't work like that. But I'm completely comfortable in this medium. I put in hard days, but I love every bit of it." He's also sensitive about what he considers his own physical limitations. "I don't think of myself as classically handsome. I've been told that...
Costner knew how to project and protect himself -- knew acutely who Kevin Costner was -- long before anyone in Hollywood cared. "He had total self- confidence from the beginning," says J.J. Harris, his agent from 1984 until this year. "I'm sure he's had it forever. He's a bigger-than-life person whose presence fills a room, though not in an ostentatious way." Yet he was often willing to torpedo his career to make a point. In Frances, one of his first movies, he risked not getting a Screen Actors Guild card when he balked at saying what...
...movie star now, and the demands on him are staggering." Costner is aware of the challenge. "I know I can do better with relationships with my family, and I have to figure out how," he confesses. "There's just not enough time for the people I care about. I'm a good dad -- when I'm at home. But when I'm away, my motel-room walls aren't lined with pictures of my family. Maybe something is wrong with me, but I separate things in order to keep exploring who I am. It's a high-class...
...person," recalls Bill, 60. "Once he decided to take charge of organizing a parade at his school. I figured it was too big a job for an eleven-year-old and said, 'Kevin, you can't do that.' And Kevin said, 'Dad, never tell me I'm not able to do something.' He went ahead and organized the parade...
...sufficient, is really romantic to me. When I was 18," the actor boasts, "I split L.A. and built a canoe, which I paddled down the rivers that Lewis and Clark navigated while they were making their way to the Pacific. So it's not surprising to me that I'm making a movie on this theme: about America and Americans. Directing isn't an exercise in control, not a growing-up or a breaking-out phase. Of course I'm anxious. I'm not sure I'll do a good job. It's not that I'm worried about...