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

“- Jake Fischer: When you can't save 'em all, how do you choose who lives?
- Ben Randall: It's probably different for everybody Jake. It's kind of simple for me though. I take the first one I come to or the weakest one in the group and then I swim as fast and as hard as I can for as long as I can. And the sea takes the rest.”
Ashton Kutcher - Jake Fischer
Kevin Costner - Ben Randall

“- 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

Who grieves for Lee Harvey Oswald? Buried in a cheap grave under the name "Oswald"? Nobody.
Kevin Costner - Jim Garrison

“- Ray Kinsella: It would kill some men to get so close to their dream and not touch it. God, they'd consider it a tragedy.
- Dr. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham: Son, if I'd only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes... now that would have been a tragedy.”
Kevin Costner - Ray Kinsella
Burt Lancaster - Dr. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham

“I've seen knights in armor panic at the first hint of battle. And I've seen the lowliest, unarmed squire pull a spear from his own body, to defend a dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright. It's defined by one's actions.”
Kevin Costner - Robin Hood

“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

“Your addiction was having power over powerful men.”

Kevin Costner - Larry Bloom

“I'm your father. Trying to comprehend how much I love you would be like trying to visualize the size of the universe.”

Kevin Costner - Larry Bloom

“- 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