America quotes

“I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.”
Toby Jones

“The frontier moves with the sun and pushes the Red Man of these wilderness forests in front of it until one day there will be nowhere left. Then our race will be no more, or be not us.”
Russell Means - Chingachgook

“- Phil Hicks: Texas is really ugly, you know. I mean, what could anyone possibly like about this state?
- Dorman: I like the way it's shaped.”
Judd Nelson - Phil Hicks
Chuck Bush - Dorman

“Three different women asked me tonight if there'd ever be an American queen. If we'd ever allow it.”
Olivia Colman - Elizabeth

“- Taslima: What are you doing here in LA?
- Snake Plissken: Dying.”
Valeria Golino - Taslima

“- Nick Naylor: That's disgusting!
- Bobby Jay Bliss: It's American.”

Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor
David Koechner - Bobby Jay Bliss

“- Malik Brody: The image that Americans have of China is that it's a country full of people with little tiny feet, and they run around and kick the shit out of each other everyday.
- Toby Wong: That's the same image we have of America, except you guys have big feet and kick the shit out of each other less gracefully.”
Kadeem Hardison - Malik Brody
Mark Dacascos - Toby Wong

“- Col. Harry Burwell: This is not a war for the independence of one or two colonies, but for the independence of one nation.
- Capt. Wilkins: Tell me, Colonel, what nation is that?
- Peter Howard: An American nation!”
Chris Cooper - Col. Harry Burwell
Adam Baldwin - Capt. Wilkins
Joey D. Vieira - Peter Howard

“Our Beloved Leader is wise. He is gentle, kind and strong. We wish him joy. We wish him peace. We wish him love. And the other thing in our time we wish more than this, is for the United States to explode in a ball of fiery hell. Die America, die.”

Yuna Song - Korean Girl

“I can't believe I'm sitting here in Buffalo. The only town where you can have a good time without enjoying yourself.”
Wendie Malick - Inez

“- Frank: You gave her a gun?
- Marvin: It is America, Frank.
- Sarah: Everyone else has a gun.
- Frank: She has no idea what to do with this.
- Sarah: I know exactly what to do with it.”
Bruce Willis - Frank
John Malkovich - Marvin
Mary-Louise Parker - Sarah

“At least six private jets and nearly two dozen commercial planes carried the Saudis and the Bin Ladens out of the U.S. after September 13th. In all, 142 Saudis, including 24 members of the bin Laden family, were allowed to leave the country.”
Michael Francis Moore - Narrator

“My journey to America can be traced back to the independence of India, the land of my fathers.”
Dinesh D'Souza - Himself

“The French values are so different from American values.”
Adrian Lyne

“American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.”
Vincente Minnelli

“I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.”
Ted Kotcheff

“If America is the great melting pot, then L.A. public transportation is the gooey shit baked on the bottom.”
Matt Dillon - David Walsh

“The Wild West mentality is still strong in America.”
Andrew Niccol

“Yesterday I bought my first pair of American shoes. They were made in Italy.”
Robin Williams - Vladimir Ivanoff

“- Woman in refugee camp: Fifty thousand Nicaraguans have died and now a Yankee. Perhaps now America will be outraged at what has happened here.
- Claire: Perhaps they will.
- Woman in refugee camp: Maybe we should have killed an American journalist fifty years ago.”
Luisa Sánchez M. - Woman in refugee camp
Joanna Cassidy - Claire

“The days when Yanks could come over here and buy up Nelson's Column, a Harley Street surgeon and a couple of windmill girls are definitely over!”

Bob Hoskins - Harold

“Barbara? Ted here. Listen, uh, I need a really big favor. I want you to cover my shift at the hospital tomorrow. I'm going to Vegas! I'm gonna lose a little money, take in a show, and get married.”
Charles Rocket - Ted

“We are not in the Eighth dimension, we are over New Jersey. Hope is not lost.”

“This thing has dragged on too long for it to end in all sweetness and light and after what the Khmer Rouge have been through I don't think they're going to be exactly affectionate toward westerners.”
Spalding Gray - U.S. Consul

“- Alex: I have a class at 7:00.
- Charley Brewster: People actually attend class at 7 in the morning? It's inhumane, it's anti-American.”
Traci Lind - Alex
William Ragsdale - Charley Brewster