America quotes

“- General Bethlehem: You see the reason you don't want to die for anything is because you have nothing to die for. That's the difference between you and me. You don't believe in anything.
- The Postman: I believe in the United States.”
Will Patton - General Bethlehem
Kevin Costner - The Postman

“- Nancy: I hate my fuckin' life.
- Sid: This is just a rough patch. Things'll be much better when we get to America, I promise.
- Nancy: We're in America. We've been here a week. New York is in America, you fuck.”
Chloe Webb - Nancy Spungen
Gary Leonard Oldman - Sid Vicious

“The war is the biggest business in America, worth $80 billion a year.”
Kevin Costner - Jim Garrison

“- Blondie O'Hara: Those aren't customers, those are voters. They ship 'em from all over the state. Each of 'em vote ten, twelve times. Used to get their names outta the cemetary, but I don't even think they bother anymore.
- Johnny Flynn: [to crowd of men] You'll be exercising your God-given right to vote. However, you'll be voting the way I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Blondie O'Hara
Steve Buscemi - Johnny Flynn
Miranda Richardson - Carolyn Stilton

“In a way, America is like a big ship, and when we work together and respect each other, that's when the ship gets safely home.”
Heather Burns - Cheryl Frasier - Miss Rhode Island

“- Patrick Dennis: Is the English lady sick, Auntie Mame?
- Auntie Mame: She's not English, darling... she's from Pittsburgh.
- Patrick Dennis: She sounded English.
- Auntie Mame: Well, when you're from Pittsburgh, you have to do something.”
Jan Handzlik - Patrick Dennis
Rosalind Russell - Mame Dennis

“I'm going out for some ice cream... this is America, isn't it?”
Charles Bronson - Paul Kersey

“I wish you wouldn't smoke. We should never have sent you to America, you picked up such appalling habits there.”

Oliver Cotton - King Haroak

“- Fisherman #3: What are you boys trying to pull?
- J.J. McClure: There's been a nuclear meltdown and we're transporting some contaminated materials to Connecticut.
- Fisherman #3: Well, why Connecticut?
- J.J. McClure: They ran out.”
Louis Nye - Fisherman #3
Burt Reynolds - J.J. McClure

“- Capt. Matthew Yelland: If the United States falls under attack our job is to defend her in the past, present and future.
- Warren Lasky: And after that?
- Capt. Matthew Yelland: After that, we take our orders from the Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces.”
Kirk Douglas - Capt. Matthew Yelland
Martin Sheen - Warren Lasky

“If we fail, the flag of the United States will fail.”
Sam Waterston - Frank Canton

“Farley, tell me, what is it? The spirit-crushing humidity? The disease-bearing insects? Or is it that special feeling that comes from the knowledge that at any given moment, a sniper's bullet could come spiralling towards your forehead?”

Denis Colin Leary - Lt. David Poole

“- Mateo: Where you from?
- Christy: Ireland.
- Mateo: You came all the way to America to trick or treat?”
Djimon Hounsou - Mateo
Sarah Bolger - Christy

“America is fat, gentlemen. America is fat! Sloppy! Immoral! And she needs men of iron to set her on the right path again. America needs Institute men! Men you are not now. But for those of you who have the courage to remain, men you shall become.”
G.D. Spradlin - Gen. Bentley Durrell

“I think it all started with the Declaration of Independence; the idea that we had the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That pursuit is what took America from the revolution to the computer age in 200 years.”
Mark McClain Wilson - Duncan

“You don't know what L.A. is like! It's like New Jersey with earthquakes.”
Harvey Korman - Cecil Watterman

“I think every kid in America ought to go to school... at least up to the eighth grade.”
Clint Eastwood - Bronco Billy

“This is a free country, welcome to almost anyone. And I'm hoping someday maybe you will join me here. Of course I will continue to write to you every week. Yes, in America almost anything is possible. Goodbye for now my beloved family. I love you. Voyia.”

Robin Williams - Vladimir Ivanoff

“All the towns in America, and I gotta move to The Bermuda Triangle. That's great.”

Danny Hassel - Dan

“Hello, America, hang on to your lights: they're the only lights left in the world!”

Joel McCrea - John Jones

“You're scared. But that's Ok. I want you to savor that fear. The south was born in fear. Fear of the Indian, fear of the slave, fear of the damn Union. The south has a fine tradition of savoring fear.”
Joe Don Baker - Claude Kersek

“You aren't really anybody in America if you're not on TV.”
Nicole Kidman - Suzanne Stone

“The trouble with you, Pulaski, is you think America is just a place to eat and sleep. You don't know what side your future's buttered on.”

Sam Levene - Abel "Chips" Abrams

“A plague on you. A plague on the whole stinking lot of ya, without morals or laws. And all you whores got no laws. You got no honor. It's no wonder you all emigrated to America, because they wouldn't have you in England. You're a lot of savages, that's what you all are. A bunch of bloody savages. A plague on you. I'll be back.”
Richard Harris - English Bob

“This is L.A., vato. And you're about to find out that this fucking city can kill anybody!”

Georges Corraface - Cuervo Jones