14 Movie Quotes about Kentucky (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 19, 2026

Memorable quotes about kentucky, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 What's your best whiskey? -Kentucky bourbon, 11 years old.

James Cagney as The Oklahoma Kid in The Oklahoma Kid (1939)

2 Kentucky. Boone County, Kentucky. Best water in the USA. Yeah, it's the water makes the whiskey fit to drink.

Sterling Hayden as Dix Handley in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

3 I am surprised at how well you handle them. See, I am from Kentucky originally and we owned a few ourselves, so it comes naturally to me.

Quote from Glory (1989)

4 It's what you might call commercial insurance. Like for a race horse. If a horse wins the Kentucky Derby, well, then you back him for the Preekness.

Quote from Christmas in July (1944)

5 As if! I am only 16, and this is California not Kentucky!

Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz in Clueless (1995)

6 That goes to show you how great my hometown is, Louisville, Kentucky. Who would believe that we would have two world heavyweight champions at the same time?

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)

7 I can outjump, outrun, throw down, drag out and whip any man in all Kentucky.

Stefan Gierasch as Del Gue in Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

8 Hey, Lieutenant, some Kentucky windage?

Quote from Platoon

9 I believe that the bourbon and branch water's rather splendid here in Kentucky. Well, now that we're both off duty, perhaps...

Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger

10 And that girl in Kentucky. I'd taken a shine to her.

Quote from Cool Hand Luke