America quotes

“There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.”
Ben Shenkman - Louis Ironson

“Gentlemen of the jury, don't let this country go to the devil. Free Jabez Stone. God bless the United States and the men who made her free.”

Edward Arnold - Daniel Webster

“I think he'd probably tell you: the America represented in this room... is not the America he died defending.”

Jim Carrey - Peter Appleton

“You know if I wanted to get shot at everyday, I'd move my black ass to Los Angeles!”
Chi McBride - Cyrus

“You come with me to Room 1013 over at the hospital and I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy, and mean. I live in America. I don't have to love it.”

Jeffrey Wright - Belize

“- Hillary Flammond: My uncle was born in America.
- Nick Rivers: Oh, really?
- Hillary Flammond: But he was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter presidency.”
Lucy Gutteridge - Hillary Flammond
Val Kilmer - Nick Rivers

“- Abbey: Outside the United States they don't have marshmallows.
- Jackie: Then it's like the only really American food. Wow!”
Nancy Hendrickson - Abbey
Deborah Luce - Jackie

“We are Spinal Tap from the UK - you must be the USA!”
Michael McKean - David St. Hubbins

“In American propaganda you will see how everyone has a car, nice clothes, a nice apartment. But you will never see the truth behind this lie. You will not see police dogs attacking strikers and demonstrators for civil rights. You will not see the beggars on the streets, the homeless, the negro-shantytowns in the south. You will not see the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ravil Isyanov - Suslov

- Aldo: You think they're making this up? You think this is "War of the Worlds" or something?
- Cynthia: Look, did we help the Czechs, the Hungarians, the Afghans or the Poles? Well we're not gonna nuke the Russians to save the Germans! I mean, if you were talking oil in Saudi Arabia, then I'd be really worried.
Stephen Furst - Aldo
Alston Ahern - Cynthia

“- Marlene DuChard: Paul... are you sure we ought to be here?
- Paul DuChard: There is nothing to worry about, my dear - we're in England now!
- Marlene DuChard: No, Paul. This is America.
- Paul DuChard: Oh yes, America.”
Louise Fletcher - Marlene DuChard
Fernando Lamas - Paul DuChard

“He knows it took billions of years to put it there, and taking it out at the rate we're going, there won't be any oil left in the good U.S.A.”

Spencer Tracy - Square John Sand

“- Claudia: Well, what was I supposed to think. They looked insane.
- Bernice: We're not insane. We're from New Jersey.”
Alison La Placa - Claudia
Jessica Lundy - Bernice

“We are fucked. Take a look at the world we inherited. We're a bunch of fast-food munching MTV freaks humping the great Amercian Dream. The generation before us sold their innocence for 200 digitally enhanced satellite stations, and it's been downhill ever since. They had Mickey Mouse, Easy Rider and The Beatles. Alright? We got South Park, The...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brendan Fehr - Nick

“It pays to be a killer in this country.”
Ritchie Coster - News Stand Vendor

“- Janet Livermore: So I'm not an Amazon woman?
- Steve Dunne: You're from the High Plains Janet.”
Bridget Fonda - Janet Livermore
Campbell Scott - Steve Dunne

“I've had no peace of mind since we lost America. Forests, old as the world itself... meadows... plains... strange delicate flowers... immense solitudes... and all nature new to art... all ours... Mine. Gone. A paradise... lost.”
Nigel Hawthorne - George III

“I like art, I work in a gas station, my best friend is a tomboy. These things don't fly too well in the American high school.”
Eric Stoltz - Keith Nelson

“Every night, thousands of these parasites stream across the border like some fuckin' piñata exploded.”
Edward Norton - Derek Vinyard

“Every year, the United States permits the entrance of about 150,000 immigrants. That number is proportioned among the various European countries. You were born in Bucharest; so, you come under the Romanian quota.”
Harry Shannon - American Immigration Official

“- James Bond: We're both humble servants of the Crown, Alge.
- Q: If the CIA made me an offer, I'd be off like a shot! Unlimited resources. Air conditioning. Twenty-eight flavors of ice cream in the restaurant.”
Sir Sean Connery - James Bond
Alec McCowen - Q

“The British and the American governments must do something to bring these hijackers to justice! Fifteen people died! My wife, my daughters, and neither the Americans under whose flag the airplane was flying, nor the British government, can just be allowed to abandon them, and walk away!”
Jeremy Irons - Jack Elgin

“May you find in this nation the fulfillment of your dreams of peace and security, and may America in turn never find you wanting in your new proud role of citizen of the United States. Will the petitioners please rise. Now let us take the oath of allegiance.”
Rosetta LeNoire - The Judge

“- Woman (Shootings in America): All those people killed in shootings in America?
- Fred: Oh, shootings, yes. But that doesn't mean Americans are more violent than other people. We're just better shots.”
Diana Sassen - Woman - 'Shootings in America'
Chris Eigeman - Fred Boynton

“Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.”
Christina Ricci - Elizabeth