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Kevin Costner acquired the love of sports from him father being a top athelete in baseball, basketball and football. His father instilled in him to do his best along with loyalty and friendship, sharing and being fair. Kevin's mother encouraged him to write poetry and join the school choir hoping to help with the wall and shyness he had built around himself from the constant moves to different schools because of his fathers job. Kevin attended CA State University at Fullerton on a five year business studies course at the age of l7. He graduated in l978 with an honours degree in business studies. Unhappy with his career choice, Kevin knew he wanted to be an actor. But he did not want to let his father down when he finished college. A stable "9 to 5" job was what was expected of him. Costner knew something was not right in his new life. He could not imagine being tied down with people telling him what to do. He knew there was more to life. Drama had always interested him though there were never any plays in the schools he attended. But he could look inward and see that there was something, a drive, a need of being someone completely different than what was expected of him.

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Kevin could always read people, see the humour in things, life. He was discontented at 22 years old. Two weeks into a marketing job which he already hated, Kevin was on the brink of making the decision to change his course of life. After only 30 days in his first job in marketing, he resigned. His wife Cindy was furious never taking his love for acting seriously. Kevin realized he had taken a big risk but it was time to take control over his own destiny. "I guess I took a risk. But I felt it was a bigger risk not to do what was right in my mind and my heart. If acting is in your soul, you can't give it up. Some people are born to it. That's the way I felt. It was a time of my life when I got rock solid with what I wanted to do. I never breathed an easier breath. I relaxed then. Then all I had to do was learn. I never felt like turning back, ever." This was the beginning of his career which he went after with a zealousness no one could stop. It was a hard time for Costner but Hollywood was where he was meant to come. He would prove his parents wrong, Cindy, their friends, all the people who had doubted him. The one's who didn't understand. But first he had to find a job!

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