Kevin Costner movie quotes

“In my younger days, I used to pick up sluts, and I don't mean that nastily. It's more a term of endearment, really, for girls who know how to speak their minds.”
Kevin Costner

“God, I always said I would never bother you about baseball, Lord knows you have bigger things to worry about. But if you could make this pain in my shoulder stop for ten minutes, I would really appreciate it.”
Kevin Costner - Billy Chapel

“Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.”
Kevin Costner

“If I had the choice of having a woman in my arms or shooting a bad guy on a horse, I'd take the horse. It's a lot more fun.”
Kevin Costner

“You're no general. You're not even a good painter.”

Kevin Costner - The Postman

“- Roy McAvoy: Do you find me sexy?
- Dr. Molly Griswold: You have your moments.
- Roy McAvoy: Well, you let me know which moments are my moments and I'll try and duplicate them.”
Kevin Costner - Roy McAvoy
Rene Russo - Dr. Molly Griswold

“- Dr. Molly Griswold: There's no such thing as semi-platonic.
- Roy McAvoy: Well there ought to be.”
Rene Russo - Dr. Molly Griswold
Kevin Costner - Roy McAvoy

“- Eliot Ness: I want to get Capone! I don't know how to do it.
- Jim Malone: You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.”
Kevin Costner - Eliot Ness
Sir Sean Connery - Jim Malone

“- Roy McAvoy: There's only one other acceptable theory about how to hit the ball.
- Dr. Molly Griswold: Oh, boy, well, I'm afraid to ask. What is it?
- Roy McAvoy: Grip it and rip it.”
Kevin Costner - Roy McAvoy
Rene Russo - Dr. Molly Griswold

“You just have to decide what kind of a man you want to grow up to be, Clark; because whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's... he's gonna change the world.”
Kevin Costner - Jonathan Kent

“- Frank Hamer: You in good spirits?
- Maney Gault: Pretty polite way of asking if I’m drinking.”
Kevin Costner - Frank Hamer
Woody Harrelson - Maney Gault

“- Frank Hamer: How'd she fall in with an outlaw like Barrow?
- Deputy Ted Hinton: Bored to tears. Along come Clyde in a fine car, by the time she found out the car was stolen, she was already in love.
- Maney Gault: Ain't that romantic. I met my wife she was milking a prize Devon at the Oklahoma State Fair, I can't imagine anybody writing a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kevin Costner - Frank Hamer
Thomas Mann - Deputy Ted Hinton
Woody Harrelson - Maney Gault

“- Frank Hamer: You ever think maybe there was something in Clyde... that made him steal that chicken in the first place?
- Henry Barrow: Maybe he was hungry. Maybe we were all hungry.”
Kevin Costner - Frank Hamer
William Sadler - Henry Barrow

“People don't always know who they are, until it's too late.”
Kevin Costner - Frank Hamer

“- Maney Gault: How many bullets you got in you?
- Frank Hamer: Sixteen, I think.
- Maney Gault: It might be good to have a doctor look at you sometime.
- Frank Hamer: It might be good to have a doctor look at you sometime.
- Maney Gault: I ain't got no bullets in me.
- Frank Hamer: Because I was covering you.”
Woody Harrelson - Maney Gault
Kevin Costner - Frank Hamer

“- Maney Gault: You came all the way up to the house, what changed your mind?
- Frank Hamer: I don't know, maybe seeing you move like you're 85.
- Maney Gault: Well, that honest. Maybe a little too honest.”
Woody Harrelson - Maney Gault
Kevin Costner - Frank Hamer

“- Frank Hamer: You know, your boy may not have been... born with a dark soul, but he has one now.
- Henry Barrow: You're not hearing me, mister. I'm trying to say something. It ain't easy for me to say. I know there's only one way that this thing is ever gonna end. And I'm asking you, please... just end it now, damn it. End it for my family.”
Kevin Costner - Frank Hamer
William Sadler - Henry Barrow

“- Jane Aubrey: What if my face was all scraped off and I was totally disfigured and had no arms and legs and I was completely paralyzed. Would you still love me?
- Billy Chapel: No. But we could still be friends.”
Kelly Preston - Jane Aubrey
Kevin Costner - Billy Chapel

“- Ray Kinsella: My name's Ray Kinsella. You used my father's name in one of your stories: John Kinsella.
- Terence Mann: You're seeing a whole team of psychiatrists, aren't you?”

Kevin Costner - Ray Kinsella
James Earl Jones - Terence Mann

“- Ben Randall: When the heck did we get old?
- Maggie McGlone: I've always been old. I mean if my muscles ache, it's because I've used 'em. It's hard for me to walk up them steps now, its 'cuz I walked up 'em every night to lay next to a man who loved me. I got a few wrinkles here and there, but I've layed under thousands of skies with sunny days.”
Kevin Costner - Ben Randall
Bonnie Bramlett - Maggie McGlone

“- School Principal: As I was saying to Zooey, study after study has shown that aggression is exacerbated by violentimages in popular culture.
- Ethan Renner: Well, Zooey's mother raised her to be a pacifist.
- School Principal: Hmm. Hitting a classmate in the face is hardly a passive response.”
Patty Hannock - School Principal
Kevin Costner - Ethan Renner

“- Sonny Weaver Jr.: Looks like Tarzan, plays like Jane.
- Coach Penn: Your opinion. He plays in my system.
- Sonny Weaver Jr.: He doesn't block!
- Coach Penn: I don't need him to block, I need him to run! Which he does, like a bat out of hell. Which takes the pressure off of my offense. Okay? I got fifty-two Tarzans in that locker room; I could...” (continue)(continue reading)

Kevin Costner - Sonny Weaver Jr.
Denis Colin Leary - Coach Penn

“- Theresa Osborne: What if you got mad at me? It's a small boat.
- Garret Blake: I don't like fighting, Theresa. Bowling either.”
Robin Wright - Theresa
Kevin Costner - Garret

“Life has to be a little nuts sometimes. Otherwise it's just a bunch of Thursdays strung together.”
Kevin Costner - Beau Burroughs

“Call me Irish, but I don't believe in cooler heads prevailing.”

Kevin Costner - Kenny O'Donnell