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#119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen

The Tim Ferriss Show

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How Do You Prepare for a Movie?

I can memorize, i think, as well as anybody, but i can't perform with memory. I have to performance when i act, own the words. And so to do that, i know that i have to get off book, which is a term for, you know, i don't need the script any more. A, i do that before every movie, i'm off book. It makes me more prepared to step through what i call a window of opportunity if one presents itself on the, on the set that day. You know, a lot of people, they come, they go, no, just winged. I like being fresh and open to the spontane

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