Kevin Costner Makes An Impression

Step One: Acknowledge The Fans — Getty Images/Vince Bucci

The Grauman's Chinese Theater hand and footprint ceremony entails more than simply showing up and plopping your hands and feet in gooey, wet cement. This handy guide shows Kevin Costner in excellent form when he accepted the honor on Sept. 6.

When arriving to the ceremony, make sure to wave to your fans first. If it weren't for your fans, you'd be inside the theater -- selling popcorn.

Step Two: Be Kind To The Photographers

Sure, paparazzi are annoying when they're snapping pictures of you lazily sunbathing au naturel in your own backyard. But, when it's photo op time, each and every person with a camera is suddenly your best friend forever. Start facing right, and then turn and pose in ten degree increments until you're facing left and each of your BFF's has gotten a good shot.

Kevin Costner poses in Hollywood on Sept. 6, 2006.

Step Three: Bring Along Your Celebrity Pals

To optimize the photo op to your best advantage, it pays to bring along a high-profile friend, especially someone who appeals to a younger demographic. If said friend is in the movie you're promoting, all the better.

Here Kevin Costner, left, is shown with Ashton Kutcher, his co-star in the upcoming film "The Guardian" at Costner's hand and footprint ceremony on Sept. 6, 2006 in Hollywood.

Step Four: Trust An Expert

Movie stars have been immortalized at Grauman's since 1927, so the people who work there know a lot more about cement than you do. Stare intently at your adoring fans while someone skilled presses your hands into the goo.

Kevin Costner adopts the proper stance and stare as his hands are placed in the cement at at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Calif., Sept. 6, 2006.

Step Five: Show Your Hands

After you've made the proper impression, sit back on your heels and reverently raise your hands to the crowd as if to say, "These hands will be remembered long after everyone has forgotten about 'Waterworld.'"

Kevin Costner savors the moment at Graumans Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Calif., Sept. 6, 2006.

Step Six: Rise To The Occasion

When it comes time to do your footprints, stand gracefully on one leg and let your body go limp as three burly men help you take a step into the cement. Pretend you're playing a game of team Twister.

Kevin Costner places his feet in the cement, with some help, at his hand and footprints ceremony on Sept. 6, 2006 at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Calif.

Step Seven: Make It A Family Affair

This is an important pivotal moment in your life and career as an artist worthy of immortality, so you should attend the event with your significant other. Bonus points for you if your S.O. is a young, gorgeous ex-model.

Kevin Costner and his wife Christine at his hand and footprint ceremony at Graumans Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Calif., Sept. 6, 2006.

Step Eight: Resist The Urge

Fight the urge to write anything obscene, draw stick figures, or go sloshing around in the cement. You can sign your name, of course.

A workman smooths out cement at Kevin Costner's hand and footprint ceremony at Graumans Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Calif., Sept. 6, 2006.

Step Nine: Make The Right Impression

Even if you won a bunch of Oscars wearing a pair of moccasins, they won't work here. Wear sturdy shoes that will leave a manly impression and don't forget to practice your signature.

The final result! Kevin Costner's hands, footprints and signature are now a permanent part of the forecourt outside Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Calif.