America quotes

“I'm walking here! You're driving on the wrong side of the road! Bunch of amateurs, these people don't get it!”

Owen Wilson - Roy O'Bannon

“The United States is the last country in the world that Japan should fight.”
Ken Watanabe - General Tadamichi Kuribayashi

“I didn't come to America to live and walk the streets like a filthy Arab! I came to America to live!”
Shohreh Aghdashloo - Nadi

“- Cluster: Dante's Peak was just named the best... well, the second-best place to live in the United States, population under 20,000.
- Harry Dalton: Good for you. What was number one?
- Cluster: I don't know. Some piece of crap town out in Montana. Who cares?”
Hansford Rowe - Warren Cluster
Pierce Brosnan - Harry Dalton

“You'd like it here, you know. We've got everything. Power cuts, strikes, unemployment, race riots, and a terrific crime rate.”

Sir Sean Connery - Paul Bradley

“- Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura: Where is Hollywood?
- Hollis P. Wood: Right here.
- Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura: What?
- Hollis P. Wood: You're looking at him.”

Toshirō Mifune - Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura
Slim Pickens - Hollis P. Wood

“You know, Memphis does look like Yokohama. Just more space. If you took away sixty percent of the buildings in Yokohama, it would look like this.”

Masatoshi Nagase - Jun

“- Williamson: The South Vietnamese want to establish a country with values similar to our own. I think we ought to help.
- Shipboard Journalist: And what values are those?
- Williamson: Freedom, the right to think for yourself, follow your own faith - you know, individual freedom.”
Michael Moriarty - Williamson
D. Paul Thomas - Shipboard Journalist

“- Tommy: Jesus Christ! It's the mother lode.
- Billy: I never seen so much wool. You could knit a sweater.
- Tommy: This has gotta be the biggest beaver shoot in the history of Florida.”
Wyatt Knight - Tommy
Mark Herrier - Billy

“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

“- Ashima: You know, by the time I was your age, I had already celebrated my 10th wedding anniversary.
- Nikhil a.k.a. Gogol: This is America, Ma. People have twins when they're 60.”
Tabu - Ashima
Kal Penn - Nikhil a.k.a. Gogol

“Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me any more. At least I'm not the same me I was.”

Gael García Bernal - Ernesto Guevara de la Serna

“In America, we have laws. Laws against killing, laws against stealing. And it is just accepted that as a member of American society, you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society which has it's own laws. Football is a way of life.”
James Van Der Beek - Mox

“- Willie: Hey, leave me some Chesterfields.
- Eva: Can I get them in Cleveland?
- Willie: Yeah, yeah, you can get 'em in Cleveland.
- Eva: They taste good there, like here?
- Willie: It's the same Chesterfields.
- Eva: Yeah?
- Willie: All over America. Yeah.”
John Lurie - Willie
Eszter Balint - Eva

“I am embarrassed to admit that I was under the misconception that our Executive and Judicial Branches were separate.”
Morgan Freeman - Theodore Joadson

“America is the richest, most powerful country on Earth. If America was a woman, she would be a big-tittied woman. Everybody loves a big-tittied woman!”

Chris Rock - Mays Gilliam

“- George III: What of the colonies, Mr. Pitt?
- Pitt: America is now a nation, sir.
- George III: Is it? Well. We must try and get used to it. I have known stranger things. I once saw a sheep with five legs...”
Nigel Hawthorne - George III
Julian Wadham - Pitt

“Censorship. You're telling us what we can and can't say to the press. That's un-American.”
Lucas Black - Chris Kruger

“America is not a young land. It is old and dirty, evil. Before the settlers, before the Indians, the evil is there, waiting.”
Peter Weller - Bill Lee

“- Jack Wade: You know that, officially, Uncle Sam is completely neutral in this turkey shoot.
- James Bond: And unofficially?
- Jack Wade: We have no interest in seeing world war III, unless we start it.”
Joe Don Baker - Jack Wade
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

“I left the Heston estate atop Beverly Hills and walked back into the real world. To an America living and breathing in fear where gun sales are now at an all record high.”
Michael Francis Moore - Himself

“- Foreman Marv Loach: United States Government? That must mean something big is happening here.
- Kent Mansley: No, Marv. Big things happen in big places, and the sooner I file my report, the sooner I can get back to them.”
James Gammon - Foreman Marv Loach
Christopher McDonald - Kent Mansley

“- West: I hail from Biloxi, Mississippi where vanilla mother fuckers like that used to hang us from trees by our necks on a whim. Now, does that sound like the kind of fucking place you want to god damn grow up?
- Pike: Sargent. No, Sargent.
- West: Are you saying something negative about the great state of Mississippi?”

Samuel L. Jackson - West
Taye Diggs - Pike

“- Joe Devine: Can you help me find a script?
- Fanny Nash: This is Hollywood. Just go outside and ask anyone you see to give you a script. A gardener, a cripple, a child molester. They've all got 'em.”
Alec Baldwin - Joe Devine
Joan Cusack - Fanny Nash

“America, wonderful land of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Sioux, Apache, Iroquois, poetry boys. and the chiefs! Listen. Kicking Bear, Rain-in-the-face, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and the man himself, the genius Geronimo. Stock your minds, boys, and you can move through the world.”
Gerard McSorley - Father Gregory