America quotes

“The truth is I am a driver. Nothing more. This is my destiny. I will never know what it's like to be an american.”
Yvan Attal - George

“- Lexie Coop: Americus? What kind of a name is Americus?
- Novalee Nation: I wanted her to have a strong name.
- Lexie Coop: Well, I guess I shouldn't talk. I named my kids after snack foods: Brownie, Praline, Cherry and Baby Ruth.”
Ashley Judd - Lexie Coop
Natalie Portman - Novalee Nation

“There's a lot of resentment in this country toward the Middle East and there's a lot of stereotypes floating around which I don't think are true because in the short amount of time I've known you, you haven't tried to bomb anybody and you currently smell okay to me.”

Evan Rachel Wood - Kimberly Joyce

“- Nina Brewster: I don't want things I can't have.
- Bridget Cardigan: Do you live in America?”
Queen Latifah - Nina Brewster
Diane Keaton - Bridget Cardigan

“There's no bond as strong as that shared by men who have faced death in battle. You men seem to have a strong sense of loyalty, because you're thought of as criminals, because of Vietnam. You know why? Because you lost. And in this country, that's like going bankrupt. You're out of business. They want to forget about you. You cost too much, and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Hackman - Col. Jason Rhodes

“- Christy: You don't ask for help in America. You demand it. Trick-or-treat- you don't ask, you threaten.
- Sarah: You can't do that on our street. Because you can't threaten drug addicts and transvestites, that's why.”

Sarah Bolger - Christy
Samantha Morton - Sarah

- Harold Lee: It's because of assholes like you that we're even in this fucking place - fucking cowards!
- Terrorist 1: Well maybe if the people in your country stopped eating "doughnuts" and started realizing what their government is doing to the world, "assholes" like us wouldn't exist!
John Cho - Harold Lee
Anand Vadehra - Terrorist 1

“- North: Do I need a lawyer?
- Winchell: North, this is America. Everybody needs a lawyer.”
Elijah Wood - North
Matthew McCurley - Winchell

“Welcome to America.”

Robert De Niro - Senator McLaughlin

“It's the greatest country in the world. Guilty as hell - free as a bird!”
Michael C. Gwynne - Mike Cassidy

“My mama used to say that America's the big melting pot. You bring it to a boil and all the scum rises to the top.”
Billie Neal - Bobbie

“You look like the Fourth of July! Makes me want a hot dog real bad!”
Jennifer Coolidge - Paulette

- John Simpson Chisum: Bonney you are a fool! You call yourself “The Scourge of New Mexico” but by God, I am New Mexico, and you are dead.
- William H. 'Billy the Kid' Bonney: Chuckles... let me tell you something Mr. New Mexico. I wouldn't give a bucket of piss for your future!
James Coburn - John Simpson Chisum
Emilio Estevez - William H. 'Billy the Kid' Bonney

“- Thel Russell: Watch it. It's loaded.
- William Blake: Why do you have this?
- Thel Russell: Because this is America.”

Mili Avital - Thel Russell
Johnny Depp - William Blake

“If you want to see the lions today, you must go to America. They are at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Even now, if you dare lock eyes with them, you will be afraid.”
John Kani - Samuel

“- Mayor Tilman: Fact is, we got two cultures down here: a white culture, and a colored culture. Now, that's the way it always has been, and that's the way it always will be.
- Anderson: Rest of America don't see it that way, Mr. Mayor.
- Sheriff Ray Stuckey: Rest of America don't mean jack shit. You are in Mississippi now.”
R. Lee Ermey - Mayor Tilman
Gene Hackman - Anderson

- Jack Elliot: Any of you guys speak Americano? Jack Elliot here bringing you the best in Major League thrills for the fellas, and free moustache rides for the ladies.
- Hiroko Uchiyama: I have seen "free moustache rides" offered on T-Shirts in America. Always by guys you would not want to ride with.

Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot
Aya Takanashi - Hiroko Uchiyama

“America is not a country where the small gesture goes noticed. We're not a country like France, where charm, something light or effervescent, can survive. We want everything you have, and we want it as fast as you can turn it out.”
Sandra Bullock - Nelle Harper Lee

“- Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura: Ito, take a landing party ashore and determine our position!
- Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt: Captain, you are insane.
- Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura: These men are the descendants of Ninja Assassins. They will find Hollywood!”
Toshirō Mifune - Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura
Sir Christopher Lee - Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt

“- Colonel Malcolm Grommett Spears: We're Americans, we've never lost a war!
- Jason: What about 'Nam, sir?
- Colonel Malcolm Grommett Spears: 'Nam? We lost that war at home, sonny.”
Paul Sorvino - Colonel Malcolm Grommett Spears
Scott Bloom - Jason

Listen to this: I'm coming out of the bathroom, right, and these two Orientals, they're arguin', they're hollerin', they're screaming at one another. And all in Japanese. So I told 'em, I said: "Ay! You're in America now, speak Spanish".
Joe Viterelli - Joe

“Because this is America! We've exhausted all of our natural resources!”

Heather Donahue - Herself

“Here in America, we can fabricate anything.”
Emilio Estevez - John Wisdom

“- Student: In this country you're nothin'. It doesn't matter how many schools you teach in... you and me, we walk down the street and all people are gonna see is black skin.
- Mark Thackeray: What do you want them to see?
- Student: Me.”
Sir Sidney Poitier - Mark Thackeray

“You can't come by here, because I'm pretending to be gay. In L.A., a straight male hairdresser is an unemployed male hairdresser.”

Royale Watkins - Telly