Kevin Kline movie quotes

“I forgot that I was hired to do a job for you and that it was just a temp job at that. I forgot that I had two hundred and fifty million people who were paying me to make their lives a little better and I didn't live up to my part of the bargain.”
Kevin Kline - Bill Mitchell

Not every situation calls for your patented approach of "shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more and then when everybody's dead try to ask a question or two".

Kevin Kline - President Grant

“- Sam Monroe: Having me here, was for your sake. You selfish fuck. Having me here trying to get me to like you.
- George Monroe: No, Sam I wasn't trying to get you to like me. I was trying to get you to love me.
- Sam Monroe: Well, congratulations... Because you fucking pulled it off.”
Hayden Christensen - Sam Monroe
Kevin Kline - George Monroe

“It is not living that is important, but living properly. Socrates chose to die an unjust death, a death he freely accepted, rather than break the laws of Athens to which he pledged his loyalty.”
Kevin Kline - William Hundert

“If you've ever seen the look on somebody's face the day they finally get a job, I've had some experience with this, they look like they could fly. And it's not about the paycheck, it's about respect, it's about looking in the mirror and knowing that you've done something valuable with your day.”
Kevin Kline - Dave Kovic

“According to Heraclitus, we cannot step into the same river twice. To put it another way, an opportunity lost stays lost forever.”
Kevin Kline - William Hundert

“There are certain things you should expect from a president. I ought to care more about you than I do about me... I ought to care more about what's right than I do about what's popular. I ought to be willing to give this whole thing up for something I believe in.”
Kevin Kline - Bill Mitchell

“When people tell me they are happy, my ass begins to twitch.”
Kevin Kline - Luc Teyssier

“- Stella: The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make alterations.
- Paden: I'll drink to that.”
Linda Hunt - Stella
Kevin Kline - Paden

“I'm the President and, as they say, the buck stops here. So I take full responsibility for each one of my illegalactions. But that's not the whole story. I think the American people are entitled to the real truth. I have here evidence in the form of notes, letters, and written memoranda, proving that Bob Alexander was involved in each of these...” (continue)(continue reading)

Kevin Kline - Bill Mitchell

“- Kate: Did you know that there are four hundred and fifty-two official government cheeses in this country? Don't you think that's incredible? To come up with four hundred and fifty-two ways of classifying what is basically a bacterial process?
- Luc Teyssier: You would prefer one cheese? One cheeseburger to put it on and one restaurant to eat...” (continue)(continue reading)

Meg Ryan - Kate
Kevin Kline - Luc Teyssier

“The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.”
Kevin Kline - William Hundert

“Allegations of wrongdoing have also been made against Vice President Nance. Now, as this evidence will prove, at no time and in no way was the Vice President involved in any of this affair. Bob just made all that up. Vice President Nance is a good and decent public servant, and I want to apologize for any pain that this has caused him or his...” (continue)(continue reading)

Kevin Kline - Bill Mitchell

“- Miguel: Any regrets?
- Tulio: You mean besides dying? Yeah. I never had enough... gold.
- Miguel: My regret, besides dying is... our greatest adventure is over before it began, and no one will even remember us.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel
Kevin Kline - Tulio

“The only big fight we've had in years is about whether to go back into couples therapy.”

Kevin Kline - Ben Hood

“Belle-Papa, do you think I’m odd?
Maurice-Odd? My daughter, odd? Where did you get an idea like that?
Belle-I don’t know. People talk.
Maurice-This is a small village, you know. Small minded as well. But small also means safe. Even back in Paris, I knew a girl like you, who was so ahead of her time. So different. People mocked her. Until the day...” (continue)(continue reading)
Emma Watson - Belle
Kevin Kline - Maurice

“- Artemus Gordon: My auxiliary tool kit, I forgot all about it. It must have fallen out of my pocket.
- James West: Your pocket? Why wasn't it on some spring-loaded contraption that shoots out your ass?
- Artemus Gordon: That's the first place Loveless would have looked.”
Kevin Kline - Artemus Gordon
Will Smith - James West

“I'm a horrible person. You have every right to hate me. You should hate me. I want you to hate me! I insist that you hate me! I'm scum, I'm garbage, I'm vermin, and I'm sorry.”
Kevin Kline - Howard Brackett

- Tulio: Miguel, you're talking to a horse!
- Miguel: Yes, that's it Altivo. Find the pry bar!
- Tulio: Yes, "find the pry bar". He doesn't understand "pry bar"! He's a dumb horse, there's no way he could understand.
Kevin Kline - Tulio
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel

- Jeffrey Anderson: Come on, say it! "I want you, Jeffery. I'm consumed with jealousy for my neice, because I want you".
- Celeste Talbert: Oh, please!
- Jeffrey Anderson: Admit it, you have feelings for me.
- Celeste Talbert: My feelings are about you, not for you. There's a big difference!
Kevin Kline - Jeffrey Anderson
Sally Field - Celeste Talbert

“I want you to be happy and you're not. Not here with me, not home with your mother, not alone, not anywhere. You're what I was most of my life, Sam. I see it in your eyes, in your sleep, in your answer to everything! You're barely alive!”

Kevin Kline - George Monroe

“What do you think, the plane is going to crash and we are all on the ground in a thousand pieces dead? I promise you, if it happens, you won't feel a thing.”
Kevin Kline - Luc Teyssier

“- Joseph: This is - this is a difficult time for you; for both of us. And especially for a woman, there are physical changes that affect everything.
- Beth: Oh, tell me about being a woman.
- Joseph: I think that the anger you're feeling is not about me. It's hormonal.
- Beth: No. It's not menopause. It actually is about you.”
Kevin Kline - Joseph
Diane Keaton - Beth

“- Edwin Stanton: When you first learned that our secretary of State has been butchered to within an inch of his life, and that they put a bullet in the back of our president's head, when this city was in chaos, do you not wish to see order restored and justice served, or were you just concerned with the rights of the assassins?
- Frederick Aiken...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kevin Kline - Edwin Stanton
James McAvoy - Frederick Aiken

“- Carmen: When I realized Django was my spirit-mate, the animal world became so visible to me.
- Joseph: As opposed to the vegetable and mineral worlds?”

Ayelet Zurer - Carmen
Kevin Kline - Joseph