Donald Sutherland movie quotes

Pre was stubborn. He insisted on holding himself to a higher standard than victory. "A race is a work of art"; that's what he said, that's what he believed and he was out to make it one every step of the way.

Donald Sutherland - Bill Bowerman

“If someone told you your child had died and wouldn't tell you how he died or where the body was buried, wouldn't you be upset?”
Donald Sutherland - Ben

“Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, The Mafia, keeps 'em guessing like some kind of parlor game, prevents 'em from asking the most important question: why? Why was Kennedy Killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who?”
Donald Sutherland - X

“- Ouisa Kittredge: Answer me! How much of your life...
- Flan Kittredge: ...my life can I account for? All of it! I am a gambler.
- Ouisa Kittredge: We're a terrible match.”
Stockard Channing - Ouisa
Donald Sutherland - Flan

“I think you're pussy-whipped. Don't feel bad about it. We're all fuckin' pussy-whipped. Women run the world. Don't let anyone tell you different. Women, not men.”
Donald Sutherland - Michael

“- Doctor Aki Ross: All life is born of Gaia and each life has a spirit. Each new spirit is housed in a physical body. Doctor?
- Doctor Sid: Go on.
- Doctor Aki Ross: Through their experiences on Earth, each spirit matures and grows. When the physical body dies, the mature spirit, enriched by its life on Earth, returns to Gaia, bringing with it...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ming-Na Wen - Doctor Aki Ross
Donald Sutherland - Dr. Sid

- Calvin "Cal" Jarrett: Some things happen in this world, people don't always have the answers for them, you know! I don't know what I'm yelling at you for.
- Conrad "Con" Jarrett: No, that's good! Haul my ass sometimes! You know, the way you used to do with him!
- Calvin "Cal" Jarrett: Oh, he needed it! You were always so hard on yourself, I... (continue)(continue reading)

Donald Sutherland - Calvin
Timothy Hutton - Conrad

“As early as 1961, they knew Kennedy was not going to go to war in South-East Asia. Like Caesar, he is surrounded by enemies, and something's underway, but it has no face, yet everybody in the loop knows.”
Donald Sutherland - X

“- Flan Kittredge: Having a rich friend is like drowning and your friend makes lifeboats.
- Ouisa Kittredge: Only your friend gets very touchy if you say one word: lifeboat.”
Donald Sutherland - Flan
Stockard Channing - Ouisa

- Beth Jarrett: I want this to be a nice Christmas.
- Calvin "Cal" Jarrett: I do too. I want all of them to be nice Christmases.
Mary Tyler Moore - Beth
Donald Sutherland - Calvin

“- Matthew Bennell: I'll get the police.
- Telephone Operator: Police.
- Matthew Bennell: Officer, I'd like to report four bodies in my backyard.
- Telephone Operator: Wait right there Mr. Bennell.
- Matthew Bennell: How do you know my name?”
Donald Sutherland - Matthew Bennell

“I'm not the madam, kid. I'm just one of the whores.”
Donald Sutherland - Jack Shaw

“Never bullshit a bullshitter.”
Donald Sutherland - Flan

“- Larry Kroger: Ok, so that means that our whole solar system could be like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being Giggle. This is nuts! That means that one tiny atom in my fingernail could be...
- Dave Jennings: ...could be one tiny little universe!
- Larry Kroger: Can I buy some pot from you?”
Tom Hulce - Larry Kroger
Donald Sutherland - Dave Jennings

“When I became a coach I tried to teach people how to do that. Tried to teach Pre how to do that. Tried like hell to teach Pre to do that. And Pre taught me. Taught me I was wrong. Pre, you see, was troubled by knowing that a mediocre effort can win a race and a magnificent effort can lose one. Winning a race wouldn't necessarily demand that he...” (continue)(continue reading)
Donald Sutherland - Bill Bowerman

“- Tess: I will not be part of this conspiracy!
- Flan Kittredge: It's not a conspiracy, it's a family!”
Catherine Kellner - Tess
Donald Sutherland - Flan

“I remembered why I loved paintings in the first place, what got me into this. I thought... dreamt... remembered... how easy it is for a painter to lose a painting. He paints and paints, works on a canvas for months, and then, one day, he loses it. Loses the structure, loses the sense of it. You lose the painting.”
Donald Sutherland - Flan

“- Harry Rex Vonner: Lucien, I thought you were dead.
- Lucien Wilbanks: I'm trying.”
Oliver Platt - Harry Rex Vonner
Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks

“- Jim Garrison: I can't believe they killed him because he wanted to change things. In our time. In our country.
- X: Well, they've been doing it all through history. Kings are killed, Mr. Garrison, politics is power, nothing more!”

Kevin Costner - Jim Garrison
Donald Sutherland - X