The Best Annie Kinsella Quotes

[Shoeless Joe Jackson walks into the cornfield and disappears. Ray turns to his wife]
Ray: We're keeping this field.
Annie: You bet your ass we are!

Ray: The Voice is back.
Annie: Oh, Lord. You're supposed to build a football field now?

Ray: [about the reclusive Terence Mann] OK, the last interview he ever gave was in 1973. Guess what it's about.
Annie: Some kind of team sport.

Annie: [trying to understand the situation] I mean, Shoeless Joe...
Ray: He's dead. Died in '51; he's dead.
Annie: He's the one they suspended, right?
Ray: Right.
Annie: He's still dead?
Ray: Far as I know.

Annie: They're talking about banning books again! Really subversive books, like "The Wizard of Oz"... "The Diary of Anne Frank"...

Annie: Terence Mann was a voice of reason during a time of great madness. Where others were chanting, "Burn, baby, burn", he was talking about love and peace and prosperity. He coined the phrase, "Make love, not war". I cherished every one of his books, and I dearly wish he had written some more. And if you experienced even a little bit of the sixties, you would feel the same way, too.
Beulah: [indignantly] I *experienced* the sixties.
Annie: No, I think you had two fifties and moved right into the seventies.

Ray: I think I know what "If you build it, he will come" means.
Annie: Ooh... why do I not think this is such a good thing?
Ray: I think it means that if I build a baseball field out there that Shoeless Joe Jackson will get to come back and play ball again.
Annie: [staring in disbelief] You're kidding.
Ray: Huh-uh.
Annie: Wow.
Ray: Yeah.
Annie: Ha. You're kidding.

Annie: Hey, what if the Voice calls while you're gone?
Ray: Take a message.

Annie: If you build what, who will come?
Ray: He didn't say.

[Ray explains Terence Mann's "pain" to Annie]
Ray: The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the Civil Rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.
[Annie looks at Ray's notes]
Annie: Oh, my God!
Ray: What?
Annie: As a small boy, he had a bat named Rosebud.