Kevin Costner movie quotes

226 quotes from 13 movies

Tin Cup (1996) as Roy McAvoy

View Quote Well, what the hell? You ride her until she bucks you or don't ride at all.

View Quote [to Molly] I'm going to qualify for the U.S. Open and kick your boyfriend's ass. Whatever you think of me, you should know he hates old people, children, and dogs.

View Quote Way I'm swinging today, nothing bugs me except insufficient applause.

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JFK (1991) as Jim Garrison

View Quote One may smile and smile and be a villain.

View Quote [to his son, Jasper] Telling the truth can be a scary thing sometimes. It scared President Kennedy, and he was a brave man. But if you let yourself be too scared then you let the bad guys take over the country. Then everybody gets scared.

View Quote They created Oswald from day one. Like a dummy corporation in the Bahamas. Just move him around a board.

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Bull Durham (1988) as Crash Davis

View Quote Having a conversation with you is like a Martian talking to a Fungo.

View Quote Never **** with a winning streak.

View Quote Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. Win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it only means you are a slob.

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Field of Dreams (1989) as Ray Kinsella

View Quote It's okay, honey. I... I was just talking to the cornfield.

View Quote I need all the karma I can get right now.

View Quote That's my corn out there! You guys are guests in my corn!

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The Untouchables (1987) as Eliot Ness

View Quote I have foresworn myself. I have broken every law I have sworn to uphold, I have become what I beheld and I am content that I have done right!

View Quote [After the border raid, Malone has scared George into agreeing to testify against Capone by 'executing' an already-dead gangster for refusing to talk.]
Mountie Captain: Mr. Ness! I do not approve of your methods.
Ness: Yeah? Well, you're not from Chicago.

View Quote Malone: [at the post office] Well, here we are.
Ness: What are we doing here?
Malone: Liquor raid.
Ness: [looking at the police station across the street] Here?
Malone: Mr. Ness, everybody knows where the booze is. The problem isn't finding it, the problem is who wants to cross Capone.

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Waterworld (1995) as Mariner

View Quote [Referring to dry land] Because I haven't seen it. And I've sailed further than most men have dreamed.

View Quote I've seen your boat before. Haven't seen you.

View Quote My boat.

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Dances with Wolves (1990) as John Dunbar

View Quote Nothing I have been told about these people is correct. They are not thieves or beggars. They are not the bogeymen they are made out to be. On the contrary, they are polite guests and I enjoy their humor.

View Quote It was hard to know how to feel. I had never been in a battle like this one. This had not been a fight for territory or riches or to make men free. This battle had no ego. It had been fought to preserve the food stores that would see us through winter, to protect the lives of women and children and loved ones only a few feet away. I felt a pride I had never felt before.

View Quote I had never really known who John Dunbar was. Perhaps because the name itself had no meaning. But as I heard my Sioux name being called over and over, I knew for the first time who I really was.

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Mr. Brooks (2007) as Earl Brooks

View Quote [after the killing blow to Mr. Smith] Before I was the Thumbprint Killer, Mr. Smith, I killed a lot of people in a lot of different ways.

View Quote Finding someone you think would be fun to kill is a bit like... well, it's a bit like falling in love. You meet a lot of candidates, and you like some of them, and they're nice. But they're not right. And that special one comes along, and your heart beats faster, and you know that's the one.

View Quote You always want to invest in things people can't do without. Water and cemeteries... pretty safe bets.

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3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) as Thomas J. Murphy

View Quote You know the golden rule: **** the gold. He who has a nickel-plated makes the rules.

View Quote [last lines] You recognize me now? I recognize you.

View Quote You want karma, asshole?

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Hidden Figures (2016) as Al Harrison

View Quote We get to the peak together, or we don't get there at all.

View Quote Whoever gets there first will make the rules.

View Quote If I said I was sorry, I'd be saying it all day.

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No Way Out (1987) as Tom

View Quote Tom: [about the Contras] Who are these men?
Scott: They're associated with Special Forces.
Tom: What? What does that mean?
Scott: It means that they are associated with Special Forces.

View Quote Scott Pritchard: [about Brice] He's the most extraordinary person I've ever met in my life. If it came to it, I'd lay down my life for him.
Tom: Is that a job requirement?

View Quote Susan: Are you one of them?
Tom: One of what?
Susan: These hypocrites. All posh and shiny getting ready for four more years of ramming it to the rest of us.
Tom: You're pretty cynical.
Susan: Adequate to the occasion.

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Man of Steel (2013) as Jonathan Kent

View Quote People are afraid of what they don't understand.

View Quote You're not just anyone, Clark, and I have to believe that you're–that you're sent here for a reason. All these changes you're going through, one day–one day, you're goin'a think of them as a blessing, and when that day comes, you're goin'a have to make a choice: a choice of whether to stand proud in front of the human race or not.

View Quote You'll just have to decide what kind of man you'll want to grow up to be, Clark, because whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's–he's gonna change the world.

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The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019) as Enzo

View Quote [narrating the first lines of the movie] Gestures are all that I have. I have no words I can rely on, because my tongue was designed long and flat and is therefore an ineffective tool for making complicated polysyllabic sounds And that is why I'm here now, waiting for Denny to come home, lying in a puddle of my own making.

View Quote He picked me out of a pile of pups, a tangled mass of paws and tails. He'd stopped at the farm on his way home from the speedway at Yakima. Even back then, I knew I was different than other dogs. My soul just felt more human.

View Quote [about Denny and Eve's wedding] They were married at a magnificent palace with its very own ocean. The kind of place I had assumed only existed on television. I tried my best to be helpful. I minded my manners, resisted snacking on the trays of exquisite appetizers and made sure to do my business in the flowerbed farthest from the festivities. The place belonged to Eve's parents, Trish and Maxwell, who I confess I first mistook for twins.

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