America quotes

“- Hoke Colburn: Did I ever tell you about the first time I ever been outside the state of Georgia?
- Daisy Werthan: No, when was that?
- Hoke Colburn: Oh, a few minutes ago.”

Morgan Freeman - Hoke Colburn
Jessica Tandy - Daisy Werthan

“The feeling is definitely there. It's a new morning in America... fresh, vital. The old cynicism is gone. We have faith in our leaders. We're optimistic as to what becomes of it all. It really boils down to our ability to accept. We don't need pessimism. There are no limits.”

“You know how easy it is to get a gun in this country? In five minutes, boom, gun show.”
James Woods - Dr. Raymond Turner

“If you're going to fit in to white America, you're gonna have to learn to like mayonnaise!”
Gary Anthony Williams - Smart Brother

“Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something. And you won't just see scenery; you'll see the whole parade of what Man's carved out for himself, after centuries of fighting. Fighting for something better than...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Stewart - Jefferson Smith

“- Skip: Man, one thing I can't figure out. People be out of work everywhere and the government just be throwing money away!
- Kirby: That's Uncle Sam for you, son. Money to burn.”
Chris Tucker - Skip
Keith David - Kirby

“- Mama Mousekewitz: My little boy, back from the dead. America, what a place.
- Papa Mousekewitz: My Fievel. I thought I would never see you again.
- Fievel Mousekewitz: Never say never, Papa.”
Erica Yohn - Mama Mousekewitz
Nehemiah Persoff - Papa Mousekewitz
Phillip Glasser - Fievel Mousekewitz

“Regret do not understand English, only American.”
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan

“Do you know why being a revolutionary doesn't work in this country? Being a revolutionary in America is like being a spoil sport at an orgy. All these goodies being passed around and you feel like a shit when you say no.”
F. Murray Abraham - Eppis

“Did you hear what they said? There's gold in Harlem!”
Gregory Hines - Goldy

“- Rocky: Oh, just a little place I call the land of the free and the home of the brave.
- Mac: Scotland!
- Rocky: No! America.”

Mel Gibson - Rocky
Lynn Ferguson - Mac

“It's the battle of the luxury cars. Lincoln Continental and American know-how and skill against the German machine.”
Tim Thomerson - Ray Binkowski

“- Artie Duncan: I don't care if you drove through a mountain in Texas. This is New Jersey, and when you play my... when you play my joint, you're just another act. I want some music out of you characters!
- Reno Nevada: You want it, Artie? You got it.”
Leonard Gaines - Artie Duncan
Pepe Serna - Reno Nevada

“What do you know about this nation? Don't you ever give a second thought to American citizens? You're the reason their money's worthless. You're the reason old people are eating out of garbage cans, and kids get killed in bullshit wars.”

George C. Scott - Barney Caine

“If this is one of the richest countries in the world, why is it so many of us can barely afford living here?”

Kevin Costner - Bud Johnson

“You want to know what my crime is? My crime was being born. I'm thirty-eight years old, and I've been locked up twenty-six of those. I educated myself in here, and I've come to understand that this country was built on exploiting the black man.”

Brent Jennings - Abdul Elijah

“My parents were Hungarian immigrants. They took the name MacIntyre 'cause they thought it sounded more American!”
Peter Riegert - Mac

“- Douglas Fairbanks: Charles, you're a foreigner; you're still an outsider. You've never understood this country.
- Charlie Chaplin: It's a good country underneath, Doug.
- Douglas Fairbanks: No, it's a good country on top. Underneath, that's what starts showing when we're scared.”
Kevin Kline - Douglas Fairbanks
Robert Downey Jr. - Charles Spencer Chaplin

“I can't help wondering what he'd say... if he were standing here right now. You know, I think he'd probably tell you: the America represented in this room... is not the America he died defending. I think he'd tell you your America is bitter... and cruel... and small.”

Jim Carrey - Peter Appleton

- Violet Devereaux: I bet they don't have gardens like this is New Jersey.
- Caroline Ellis: Actually, it's "The Garden State".
Gena Rowlands - Violet Devereaux
Kate Hudson - Caroline Ellis

“- Chon Wang: The English are not very friendly. What did they lose?
- Roy O'Bannon: A little thing called the American Revolution. They came over with about a million men. We had a bunch of farmers with pitchforks and beat 'em like a drum.”
Jackie Chan - Chon Wang
Owen Wilson - Roy O'Bannon

They talk about the desecration of the American flag and yet, online, you can buy flag underwear. I just saw my grandmother wearing a flag thong, and I was like, "Granny, I don't wanna know where old glory is!".
Robin Williams - Tom Dobbs

“- Magneto: America was going to be the land of tolerance. Peace.
- Rogue: Are you going to kill me?
- Magneto: Yes.
- Rogue: Why?
- Magneto: Because there is no land of tolerance. There is no peace. Not here, or anywhere else.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Magneto
Anna Paquin - Rogue

“- Vada Sultenfuss: I want to be a writer. I want to be just like you.
- Alfred Beidermeyer: Hmph. Me? My dear, this is not a country that rewards poetry. This is a country that rewards gas mileage. Besides, people don't read poetry anymore; they watch television.”
Anna Chlumsky - Vada Sultenfuss
Aubrey Morris - Alfred Beidermeyer

“Realism: not a pervasive element in today's modern American cinematic vision.”