“I'm an American and not a Jew.”

David O. Selznick On Ben Hecht

“I know Americans better than people of any other country and by knowing them better I think I know what they laugh at and what should be laughed at.”
Frank Capra

“I think Americans have a sense of guilt because they understand that they have more of just about everything than anyone else.”
Paul Weitz

“The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.”
Farrah Fawcett

“This appears - mind you, I say appears - to be properly drawn. But you shan't have this man. A man isn't a piece of property. Mr. Stone is an American citizen... and an American citizen cannot be forced into the service of a foreign prince.”

Edward Arnold - Daniel Webster