America quotes

“- John L. Bridges: It's getting dangerous to be poor in this country.
- James Averill: It always was.”

Jeff Bridges - John L. Bridges
Kris Kristofferson - James Averill

“- Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair: Man, if we get outta this thing, I want you to come to the States. I'll show you some stuff that you'll never believe.
- Col. Vardovsky: No way, my friend. I'm told in the States they shoot Communists in the streets.
- Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair: Hell, man. In Detroit, my hometown, they shoot everybody in the streets!”
Louis Gossett Jr. - Charles "Chappy" Sinclair

“In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women.”
Dan Castellaneta - Homer Simpson

“Everyone clung to the idea that if you worked hard, you would have gotten a piece of the American dream.”
Phill Lewis - Narrator

“- Tommy Riley: It's a free country.
- Pappy Jack: Would that were true, kid. Would that were true.”
James Marshall - Tommy Riley
Robert Loggia - Pappy Jack

“If you're born in Kentucky, you've got three choices; coal mine, moonshine or move it on down the line.”
William Sanderson - Lee Dollarhide

“- Ted: Take these ants. In the U.S. view, a small group, or cadre, of fierce red ants have taken power and are oppressing the black ant majority. Now the stated U.S. policy is to aid those black ants opposing the red ants in hopes of restoring democracy, and to impede the red ants from assisting their red ant comrades in neighboring ant...” (continue)(continue reading)
Taylor Nichols - Ted Boynton
Pep Munné - Ramone

“- Farmer: I can tell you one thing about them founding fathers of America.
- Sheriff Dollard: What's that?
- Farmer: They sure had fabulous wigs.”
Chris Penn - Sheriff Dollard

“- Frank: The whole deal is like some kind of crazy game. They put you at the starting line. And the name of the game is make it through life. Only, everyone's out for themselves and looking to do you in at the same time. OK, man here we are. You do what you can, but remember, I'm going to do my best to blow your ass away. So how are you going to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Keith David - Frank
Roddy Piper - Nada

“Nobody on this planet wants their religion and their pornography together.”
Courtney Love - Althea Leasure Flynt

“- Gordon Urquhart: We've been invaded by America. We're all gonna be rich.
- Victor: Really?
- Gordon Urquhart: We won't have anywhere to call home, but we'll be stinkin' rich.”
Denis Lawson - Urquhart
Christopher Rozycki - Victor

“Only two things come outta Oklahoma, steers and queers. Which one are you boy? I don't see no horns!”
Louis Gossett Jr. - Sgt. Emil Foley

“- Dr. Niko Tatopoulus: What's with the chewing gum?
- Philippe Roaché: It makes us look more American.”
Matthew Broderick - Dr. Niko Tatopoulos
Jean Reno - Philippe Roaché

“- Emily Trent: I have passed many pleasant hours here, watching the workman fit each piece into its precise slot. Such skill!
- Pierce: They screw it together do they?
- Trent: No, bolt it actually. With long bolts, fitted tightly.
- Emily Trent: Yes. Long bolts, fitted tightly.
- Pierce: I've just returned from America, a country of many...” (continue)(continue reading)
Pamela Salem - Emily Trent
Sir Sean Connery - Pierce
Alan Webb - Trent

“- Sam the Eagle as Headmaster of Junior High Graduates: Tomorrow, you become a man of business!
- Young Scrooge: I'm looking forward to it, Headmaster.
- Sam the Eagle as Headmaster of Junior High Graduates: Mm, you will love business. It is the American way!
- The Great Gonzo as Charles Dickens: Sam...
- Sam the Eagle as Headmaster of Junior...” (continue)(continue reading)
Frank Oz - Sam the Eagle as Headmaster of Junior High Graduates
Theo Sanders - Young Scrooge
Dave Goelz - The Great Gonzo as Charles Dickens

“Ramone is very persuasive, and he painted a terrible picture of what it would be like for her to live the rest of her life in America, with all of its crime, consumerism, and vulgarity. All those loud, badly dressed, fat people watching their eighty channels of television and visiting shopping malls. The plastic throw-everything-away society...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mira Sorvino - Marta Ferrer

I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. When they ask me what I want, I say: "What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now".
Denis Colin Leary - Himself

“This is difficult stuff. Making a left turn in L.A. is one of the harder things you'll learn in life.”
Kevin Kline - Mack

“This is the Cosby decade. America loves black people.”
C. Thomas Howell - Mark Watson

“There's more people! That's what's ruining this country! The population is getting out of control! The competition is maddening!”
Dustin Hoffman - William 'Willy' Loman

“Boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men - they forget even more.”

James Stewart - Jefferson Smith

“The point is there's a gulf in this country; an ever-widening abyss between the people who have stuff, and the people who don't have shit. It's like this big hole in the ground, as big as the fucking Grand Canyon, and what's come pouring out is an eruption of rage, and the rage creates violence, and the violence is real.”

Steve Martin - Davis

“It's people like you that are sending this country down the tubes. No sense of pride. No sense of loyalty. No sense of nothing, man.”
Crispin Glover - Layne

“- Renfield: Master! We hit the jackpot!
- Dracula: Only in America! Plastic disposable bodies! It's like a supermarket!”

Arte Johnson - Renfield
George Hamilton - Dracula

“You think I'm just some guy from Fresno who tinkered with crack pot ideas in his attic? Well let me tell you something, this country was built on the shoulders of people who tinkered with crack pot ideas in their attics, basements and backyards. Alexander Graham Bell worked in a two room flat!”

Rick Moranis - Wayne