Kevin Kline movie quotes

“- Phoebus: Sir, request permission to stop this cruelty.
- Frollo: In a moment, captain. A lesson needs to be learned here.”

Kevin Kline - Phoebus
Tony Jay - Frollo

“- Michael: I'm getting tired of everything I write being read in the can.
- Harold: You can read Dostoyevsky in the can.
- Michael: Yes, but they can't finish it.”
Jeff Goldblum - Michael
Kevin Kline - Harold

“I always thought of myself as a house. I was always what I lived in. It didn't need to be big. It didn't even need to be beautiful. It just needed to be mine. I became what I was meant to be. I built myself a life. I built myself a house.”
Kevin Kline - George Monroe

“- Frederick Aiken: Why did I fight for the Union if my rights aren't assured? You tell me.
- Edwin Stanton: Fine words for rallying the troops, not for running a nation. They assassinated our president, and someone must be held accountable. The people want that.”
James McAvoy - Frederick Aiken
Kevin Kline - Edwin Stanton

“- George Monroe: You're the most beautiful woman I have ever known.
- Robin Kimball: What?
- George Monroe: Not just physically. Even your anger's perfect.”
Kevin Kline - George Monroe
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Robin Kimball

- Artemus Gordon: Now you're going to be my little doggy, and when I say "speak" you're going to tell me everything I want to know. Understand?
- McGrath: Woof!
- Artemus Gordon: Good boy. Now, which scientist is that in the next room? Is it Dr. Escobar? Speak!
- McGrath: Woof! Woof!
- Artemus Gordon: You can speak words, you stupid mutt.

Kevin Kline - Artemus Gordon
Ted Levine - General McGrath

“- Mack: I'm getting a headache.
- Claire: No, you're not.
- Mack: I'm not?
- Claire: No and I'll tell you why I reject your headache Mac, because it's inappropriate. If I am right and these events are truly miracles, then it's an innapropriate response to get a headache in the presence of a miracle.”

Kevin Kline - Mack
Mary McDonnell - Claire

“- Nick Starkey: Ed, I think it'd be best if you don't come in the apartment.
- Ed: You got it. I'm an artist. I'll watch the woman.”

Kevin Kline - Nick Starkey
Alan Rickman - Ed

“- Vince McCain: What about a small advance on my inheritance?
- Rod McCain: What inheritance?
- Vince McCain: I'm your son! You have to leave me something.
- Rod McCain: Why?
- Vince McCain: 'Cause you screwed up my whole childhood!
- Rod McCain: How could I have? I wasn't even there.”

Kevin Kline - Vince McCain
Kevin Kline - Rod McCain

“I always thought masturbation was the ultimate act of self-absorption.”
Kevin Kline - Harold

“- Tulio: Any last words?
- Miguel: I will cut you to ribbons!
- Tulio: Fool! Such mediocrity! Let your sword do the talking!
- Miguel: I will, it will be loquacious to a fault!”
Kevin Kline - Tulio
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel

“- Kate: Do you believe in love? The kind that lasts forever?
- Luc Teyssier: I loved my mother.
- Kate: No, everybody loves their mother. Even people who hate their mothers love their mothers.”
Meg Ryan - Kate
Kevin Kline - Luc Teyssier

“A man's character is his fate. And as a student of history, I find this hard to refute. For most of us our stories can be written long before we die.”
Kevin Kline - William Hundert

“We are working a con, walking the razor's edge. On one side, gold. On the other side... painful, agonizing failure!”
Kevin Kline - Tulio

“The end depends upon the beginning.”
Kevin Kline - William Hundert

“- Wanda Gershwitz: What about my tits?
- Otto: Does he get to handle them?
- Wanda Gershwitz: Yes, he does. That's my forecast and I'll stand by it.
- Otto: Would this also involve... nuzzling?
- Wanda Gershwitz: Yes, I think three million dollars is worth a bit of nuzzling. Fifty percent chance of that.”
Jamie Lee Curtis - Wanda Gershwitz
Kevin Kline - Otto

Although he was considered insane by his peers, Bernoulli's theory states that the air flowing over a bird's wing is at a lower pressure than the air flowing under the wing. That's called "lift". Of course, it's only a theory, it's never been tested...

Kevin Kline - Artemus Gordon

“It is not an interesting question. It is the question of a little girl who believes in fairy tales.”

Kevin Kline - Luc Teyssier

“- Miguel: You fight like my sister!
- Tulio: I've fought your sister. That's a compliment.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel
Kevin Kline - Tulio

“- James West: Gordon, when you tell this story to your grandkids, you be sure to leave this part out.
- Artemus Gordon: Don't worry.”

Will Smith - James West
Kevin Kline - Artemus Gordon

“- Douglas Fairbanks: Charles, you're a foreigner; you're still an outsider. You've never understood this country.
- Charlie Chaplin: It's a good country underneath, Doug.
- Douglas Fairbanks: No, it's a good country on top. Underneath, that's what starts showing when we're scared.”
Kevin Kline - Douglas Fairbanks
Robert Downey Jr. - Charles Spencer Chaplin

“- Miguel: How's the escape plan coming?
- Tulio: Wait! I'm getting something!”

Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel
Kevin Kline - Tulio

“As I've gotten older, I realize I'm certain of only two things. Days that begin with rowing on a lake are better than days that do not. Second, a man's character is his fate.”
Kevin Kline - William Hundert

“- James West: I thought I'd go as a government agent who's going to shoot and kill General Bloodbath McGrath.
- Artemus Gordon: An armed Negro cowboy costume in a room full of white, Southern, former slave-owners. You'll win first prize.”

Will Smith - James West
Kevin Kline - Artemus Gordon

“- Hannah: It's all I've ever wanted. Pretty land, isn't it.
- Paden: And a pretty lady.
- Hannah: A lot of men have told me that. Maybe it's true. I guess some women are slow to believe it.
- Paden: Believe it.
- Hannah: They are drawn to me by that; but, it never last.”
Rosanna Arquette - Hannah
Kevin Kline - Paden