Americans quotes

“You're American. You think you can escape history. You live for the present.”

Paolo Bonacelli - Father Benedetto

“- Ashima: Why don't you get in my American son? Sonia can sit on my lap. Come on.
- Nikhil a.k.a. Gogol: No. Because being pulled by another human being is feudal and exploitative, and I don't want to be part of something like that.”

Tabu - Ashima
Kal Penn - Nikhil a.k.a. Gogol

“I think Americans have a sense of guilt because they understand that they have more of just about everything than anyone else.”
Paul Weitz

“You don't defeat an empire fighting by their rules. Once upon a time it was the Americans who were terrorists to the British. They're forgetting their history already.”
Saïd Taghmaoui - Omar

“You Americans, you always assume you must do something before you can be arrested.”
Alex Camacho - Silvio

“I owe my allegience to no country or order but my own. I am an American first and always, and no amount of torture conceived by your twisted Oriental brain will make me change my mind.”

Gus Glassmire - Martin Warren

“Jack dreams that he can hustle the American working man, who's one dream is that he could be rich enough not to work, into a revolution led by his party.”
Jack Nicholson - Eugene O'Neill

“- Calvin Candie: Your boss looks a little green around the gills.
- Django: He just ain't used to seein' a man ripped apart by dogs is all.
- Calvin Candie: But you are used to it?
- Django: I'm just a little more used to Americans than he is.”

Leonardo DiCaprio - Calvin Candie
Jamie Foxx - Django

“- Otto: Don't call me stupid.
- Wendy: Why on earth not?
- Otto: Oh, you English are so superior, aren't you? Well, would you like to know what you'd be without us, the good ol' U.S. of A. to protect you? I'll tell you. The smallest fucking province in the Russian Empire, that's what! So don't call me stupid, lady. Just thank me.”
Kevin Kline - Otto
Maria Aitken - Wendy

“Oh, you Americans, always in a hurry, hurry, business, business!”
Peter Lorre - Nikolai Zaleshoff

“- Todd: Gentlemen, welcome. Remember: peeping is a privilege, not a right. Please remain seated at all times, keep your hands at your sides. Should you need oxygen, a mask will fall from the console above your head. Thank you. Have a nice day.
- Juan: Hey, thanks, man. We'll work for you dudes any time.
- Todd: Anything to further the education...” (continue)(continue reading)

Bruce Greenwood - Todd
David Yanez - Juan

“Are people like you that make the world think that Americans are stupid! I'm not stupid! I'm not gonna take this shit anymore!”

Rogert Bart - Dr. Beecher

“The American people are conditioned by network TV, by local news, to believe that their communities are much more dangerous than they actually are.”
Arthur A. Busch - Himself

“Sam knew the trail ahead would be long, steep, and littered with horse manure, but he was ready now, 'cause somehow, someway, the waitress, the Indian, the cheerleader and the 15-year-old-father would survive. They were the modern American family.”
Bug Hall - Sam Callahan

“This appears - mind you, I say appears - to be properly drawn. But you shan't have this man. A man isn't a piece of property. Mr. Stone is an American citizen... and an American citizen cannot be forced into the service of a foreign prince.”

Edward Arnold - Daniel Webster

“- Fielding Pierce: I am so sick of having to apologize for being an American.
- Father Mileski: North American.
- Fielding Pierce: God, I'm so sorry. Yes, North American. But I can't help noticing that when people run to freedom they tend to wash up on North American shores. This country is till the best that we've been able to do in the whole...” (continue)(continue reading)
Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce
John Carroll Lynch - Father Mileski

“You wanna learn about America, Inga? In America, we like boys! We like hot boys! Boys with roaming hands and rushing fingers!”
Traci Lords - Wanda Woodward

“- Blythe 'The Forger': Tea?
- Hendley 'The Scrounger': I only drank tea once. In a hospital.”
Donald Pleasence - Blythe 'The Forger'
James Garner - Hendley 'The Scrounger'

“I'm going on TV... You know, maybe the American people will go with me, even if their elected representatives won't.”
Bruce Greenwood - John F. Kennedy

“- Michael Corben: I'm an American citizen and I know my rights.
- Derek Richardson: Corben, don't go asking for special privileges.
- Michael Corben: I wanna speak to the American embassy.
- Derek Richardson: Relax, they already know you're here.
- Michael Corben: What'd they say?
- Derek Richardson: They wished you good luck.”
Richard Grieco - Michael Corben
Michael Siberry - Derek Richardson

“What I do like is the fact that I live in a country where you and I can make that decision for ourselves. I like the fact that I live in a country where I can pick up Hustler magazine and read it, or throw it in the garbage can if that's where I think it belongs.”

Courtney Love - Althea Leasure Flynt

“- Holly: I left without saying anything. He must think I'm an idiot.
- Denise: Well, you're an American. They expect us to be idiots.”
Hilary Swank - Holly
Lisa Kudrow - Denise

“Perception of legitimacy is more important than legitimacy itself. That's the greater truth.”
Jeff Goldblum - Alan Stewart

- Immigration officer: Read my lips, El Paco. Where were you born?
- Rudy: I was born in East L.A., man.
- Immigration officer: Sure, sure. If you were born in East L.A., then who's the president of the United States?
- Rudy: I don't know, that guy, that guy who was on T.V., the guy in the cowboy hat... he used to be on "Death Valley Days"... uh... (continue)(continue reading)
Terrence Evans - Immigration Officer
Cheech Marin - Rudy

“- Jamie, Red Feather: Where are you from, Mars?
- Cleo Plendor: Worse. Beverly Hills.”
Tori Spelling - Jamie, Red Feather
Dinah Lacey - Cleo Plendor