Robert Redford movie quotes

“- Iris Gaines: You know, I believe we have two lives.
- Roy Hobbs: How... what do you mean?
- Iris Gaines: The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.”
Glenn Close - Iris Gaines
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs

“I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.”
Robert Redford

“- Karen: What's wrong with marriage anyway?
- Denys: Have you ever seen one you admire?
- Karen: Yes, I have, many. Belfield's, for one.
- Denys: He sent her home for the rains in 1910. Didn't tell her they were over until 1913.”
Meryl Streep - Karen
Robert Redford - Denys

“I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.”
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs

“My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things, trout as well as eternal salvation, came by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy.”
Robert Redford - Narrator

“We can no long wear the uniform of the soldier. We forfeited that right and that includes me. I disobeyed an executive order, I violated my duty as a commanding officer. And eight men paid a catastrophic price. It's a mistake not easy to live with. So here I am just like you, a convicted criminal. Only difference between you and me is, I know...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Redford - Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin

“- Roy Hobbs: Is he with his father?
- Iris Gaines: No. His father lives in New York. But, I'm thinking he needs his father; he's at that age. He needs him.
- Roy Hobbs: Sure. A father makes all the difference.”

Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs
Glenn Close - Iris Gaines

“- Annie MacLean: I've heard you help people with horse problems.
- Tom Booker: Truth is, I help horses with people problems.”
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Annie MacLean
Robert Redford - Tom Booker

“After 30 years everyone's a good man. It's the law.”
Robert Redford - Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin

“My life didn't turn out the way I expected.”
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs

“Life is too serious to be taken seriously.”
Robert Redford

“- Katie: Wouldn't it be lovely if we were old? We'd have survived all this. And everything would be easy and uncomplicated, the way it was when we were young.
- Hubbell: Katie, it was never uncomplicated.”
Barbra Streisand - Katie
Robert Redford - Hubbell

“Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.”
Robert Redford - Tom Booker

“I didn't know that it was right to love her. I just loved her.”
Robert Redford - Tom Booker

- Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin: I don't think so. You know where saluting comes from?
- Cpl. Ramon Aguilar: No, sir.
- Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin: It comes from medieval times. Two knights would approach each other on horseback. They would raise their visors and show their faces. It's like they're saying, "This is who I am. I'm not the enemy and I'm not... (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Redford - Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin
Clifton Collins Jr. - Cpl. Ramon Aguilar

“- Roy Hobbs: I coulda been better. I coulda broke every record in the book.
- Iris Gaines: And then?
- Roy Hobbs: And then? And then when I walked down the street people would've looked and they would've said there goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was in this game.”
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs
Glenn Close - Iris Gaines

“- Butch Cassidy: They got horses in Australia and thousands of miles of countryside that we can hide out in, and good climate. Nice beaches. You can learn to swim.
- The Sundance Kid: No. Swimming isn't important. What about the banks?
- Butch Cassidy: Very easy. Easy, ripe, and luscious.”
Paul Newman - Butch Cassidy
Robert Redford - The Sundance Kid

“- Hubbell: You never give up, do you?
- Katie: Only when I'm absolutely forced to.”
Robert Redford - Hubbell
Barbra Streisand - Katie

“- Cosmo: Posit: people think a bank might be financially shaky.
- Bishop: Consequence: people start to withdraw their money.
- Cosmo: Result: pretty soon it is financially shaky.
- Bishop: Conclusion: you can make banks fail.
- Cosmo: Bzzt. I've already done that. Maybe you've heard about a few? Think bigger.”
Ben Kingsley - Cosmo
Robert Redford - Bishop

“- Pop Fisher: Batting practice tomorrow, be there!
- Roy Hobbs: I have been. Every day.”
Wilford Brimley - Pop Fisher
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs

“You don't just dive into a black salad. You have to play with it first!”
Robert Redford - Paul Bratter

“If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.”
Robert Redford

“One day he went swimming and dove headfirst into the lake... and right into a rock. And it snapped his neck, paralyzed him. And after the accident I'd look in on him from time to time. But he wasn't there. It was like his mind, his spirit, whatever you want to call it, just disappeared. The only thing left was just anger. Just sort of as if the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Robert Redford - Tom Booker

“Take a look at a castle. Any castle. Now break down the key elements that make it a castle. They haven't changed in a thousand years. 1: Location. A site on high ground that commands the territory as far as the eye can see. 2: Protection. Big walls, walls strong enough to withstand a frontal attack. 3: A garrison. Men who are trained and willing...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Redford - Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin

“- Ezra Stiles: It's gonna be a monoplane.
- Waldo Pepper: A monoplane. Are you telling me you're building me an airplane with only one wing?
- Ezra Stiles: Just thought you'd like to know: the biplane's gone the way of the Dodo.”
Edward Herrmann - Ezra Stiles
Robert Redford - Waldo Pepper