What's with the lights?
Oh, all the stadiums have them now. Even Wrigley Field.
Makes it harder to see the ball.
Yeah, well, the owners found that more people can attend night games.
Ray Kinsella
Kevin Costner · 29 quotes
Terence Mann
16 quotes
Shoeless Joe Jackson
Ray Liotta · 13 quotes
Annie Kinsella
Amy Madigan · 6 quotes
The Voice
4 quotes
Most scenes together: Ray Kinsella & Dr. Archibald Graham (aka "Moonlight" Graham) (22), Shoeless Joe Jackson & Dr. Archibald Graham (aka "Moonlight" Graham) (10), Ray Kinsella & Terence Mann (8)
Field of Dreams quotes
Page 3 of 4Now, what the hell is that?
Ray Kinsellla
What's is look like? It's a gun.
That's your finger.
No, it's a gun.
Take it out. Let me see it.
Get out of here! I'm not showing you my gun. [Mann reaches behind a shelf and grabs a crowbar.] Hey, what are you doing?
I'm gonna beat you with this crowbar until you go away.
You can't do that!
[Mann takes a wild swing; Kinsella falls while dodging it.]
Oh, there are rules? There are no rules here!
You're a pacifist!
Shit.
So, what was it?
Hmm?
The "terrible thing" you said to your father. What was it?
I told him I could never respect a man whose hero was a criminal.
Who was his hero?
Shoeless Joe Jackson.
He wasn't a criminal. You knew that. [Ray nods.] So why'd you say it?
I was seventeen.
What was the awful thing you said?
I said I could never respect a man whose hero was a criminal.
Who was his hero?
Shoeless Joe Jackson.
You knew he wasn't a criminal. [Ray nods.] Then why did you say it?
I was seventeen. [Terence nods.]
So this is your penance.
I know. I can't bring my father back...
...so the least you can do is bring back his hero.
Gandil [After the pitcher nearly knocked Archie Graham off the plate.]
Hey Knuckles, what'd you throw at the kid for?
Cicotte He-he winked at me.
Gandil Don't wink, kid.
Umpire Sure. Watch out you don't get killed.
[When Karin Kinsella is injured, Archie "Moonlight" Graham leaves the baseball field; this causes him to become his later self, Dr. Graham.]
She'll be all right. She'll be turning handsprings before you know it. (He looks wistfully at ball field.)
You can't go back? You can't go back... oh, God, I'm sorry —
It's all right. I'd best be gettin' on home. Alicia will begin to think I've got a girlfriend. [He turns to leave.]
Hey, rookie! You were good.
Ease his pain.
Hey, rookie — you were good.
I need all the karma I can get right now.
I'd best be getting home. Alicia will think I've got a girlfriend.
I'd wake up at night with the smell of the ball park in my nose, the cool of the grass on my feet... The thrill of the grass.
If you build what, who will come?
He didn't say.
I'm gonna beat you with this crowbar until you go away.
It was like coming this close to your dreams... and then watch them brush past you like strangers in a crowd.
It's okay, honey. I... I was just talking to the cornfield.
My father's name was John Kinsella. It's an Irish name. He was born in North Dakota in 1896 and never saw a big city until he came back from France in 1918. He settled in Chicago where he quickly learned to live and die with the White Sox. Died a little when they lost the 1919 World Series, died a lot the following summer when 8 members of the team were accused of throwing that series. He played in the minors for a year or two but nothing ever came of it. Moved to Brooklyn in '35, married mom in '38 and was already an old man working at the naval yards when I was born in 1952. My name's Ray Kinsella. Mom died when I was three and I suppose dad did the best he could. Instead of Mother Goose, I was put to bed at night with stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the great "Shoeless" Joe Jackson. Dad was a Yankees fan then so, of course, I rooted for Brooklyn. But in '58 the Dodgers moved away and we had to find other things to fight about. We did. And when it came time to go to college, I picked the farthest one away from home I could find. [Ray is seen on the University of California, Berkeley campus] This of course drove him right up the wall which, I suppose, was the point. Officially my major was English but, really, it was the '60s. I marched, I smoked some grass, I tried to like sitar music, and I met Annie. The only thing we had in common was that she came from Iowa and I had once heard of Iowa. After graduation we moved to the mid-west and stayed with her family as long as we could; almost a full afternoon. Annie and I got married in June of '74. Dad died that fall. A few years later, Karen was born. She smelled weird but, we loved her anyway. Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm 36 years old, I love my family, I love baseball and I'm about to become a farmer. But until I heard the voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.