15 Movie Quotes about the American Dream
From the movie: Don Verdean
“I want to come to the States. I want to live the American Dream for a while. And get a Pontiac. And I want the Levi's jeans, acid wash, super taper. Like John Stamos. I want a wife, Don. I'm lonely here. She has to be gentle and sweet and hot like stripper.”
Jemaine Clement - Boaz
From the movie: Back to the Future Part II
“I just wanna say one thing! God bless America.”
Thomas F. Wilson - Biff Tannen
From the movie: 2016: Obama's America
“When I was a kid, I would sit on the floor of my house in Mumbai and I would read about the great nations, the great empires. The Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire... they all came and they all went. But I always thought there was one exception to that rule, and that's the United States of America, which is a different kind of empire, if it's an empire at all. It's an empire of ideals.”
Dinesh D'Souza - Himself
From the movie: Horrible Bosses 2
“I respect you gentlemen for wanting to roll up your sleeves and build something, stake your claim. Now I came to this country with nothing. And through risk and hard work, I made my own American dream come true.”
Christoph Waltz - Bert Hanson
From the movie: Premium Rush
“- Mr. Leung: A lot of money for a young lady.
- Nima: Took me two years. I work three jobs.
- Mr. Leung: American dream, huh?
- Nima: Is to work three jobs?
- Mr. Leung: These days, yes.”
Henry O - Mr. Leung
Jamie Chung - Nima
From the movie: Joy
“In America I believe the ordinary meets the extraordinary every single day.”
Bradley Cooper - Neil Walker
From the movie: Reds
“Jack dreams that he can hustle the American working man, who's one dream is that he could be rich enough not to work, into a revolution led by his party.”
Jack Nicholson - Eugene O'Neill
From the movie: Halloween: Resurrection
“- Sara Moyer: I don't want to be famous.
- Freddie Harris: What do you mean you don't want to be famous? That's the American dream!”
Bianca Kajlich - Sara Moyer
Busta Rhymes - Freddie Harris
From the movie: The Assassination of Richard Nixon
“What happened, Mr. Bernstein... to the land of plenty. When there's plenty for the few, and nothing for the plenty. Is that the American Dream?”
Sean Penn - Samuel J. Bicke
From the movie: No Cure For Cancer
“I'd like to sing a song about the American Dream. About me. About you. The way our American hearts beat down in the bottom of our chests. About the special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts, maybe below the cockles, maybe in the sub-cockle area. Maybe in the liver. Maybe in the kidneys. Maybe even in the colon, we don't know.”
Denis Colin Leary - Himself
From the movie: A History of Violence
“You're living the American Dream. You really bought into it, didn't you? You've been this other guy, almost as long as you've been yourself.”
talking to Tom Stall
William Hurt - Richie Cusack
From the movie: The Guru
“Do you know why they call it the American Dream? Because it only happens when you are asleep.”
Emil Marwa - Vijay Rao
From the movie: Dangerous Game
“American consumerism, you know. This and that. That's supposed to be a life. Have a dog. Have a cat. Have a house. Have a car. Have a suit. Have a fucking tie. That's the lie that's been sold to us. The dream has to do with industrialization. It's a mechanical thing, it doesn't work.”
Harvey Keitel - Eddie Israel
From the movie: Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
“Everyone clung to the idea that if you worked hard, you would have gotten a piece of the American dream.”
Phill Lewis - Narrator
From the movie: A Simple Plan
“- Lou: It's the American Dream in a goddamn gym bag! He... he just wants to walk away from it.
- Hank: You work for the American Dream. You don't steal it.
- Lou: Then this is even better.”
trying to convince Hank to split the money they found
Brent Briscoe - Lou
Bill Paxton - Hank
