Americans quotes

Sucker play or not, I must have turned her on somethin' fierce. 'Cause this dame was goin' for broke. Maybe it was her first time with a New Yorker, I dunno. Anyway, nothing beats good old American know-how. And I was givin' this broad "The Stars and Stripes Forever".

Richard Romanus - Harry Canyon

“- Puppet: I heard about what happened. I'm sorry, Santana. Mi carnalito, he messed up.
- Montoya Santana: It wasn't his fault, ese. It was all American beef. When they wanna pop you they're gonna pop you.”
Danny De La Paz - Puppet
Edward James Olmos - Montoya Santana

“I'm in the government and I don't even trust it. You don't have to believe in your government to be a good American. You just have to believe in your country.”
James Adomian - George W. Bush

“If there's one thing I can't stand seeing, it's Americans fighting Americans.”
Dan Aykroyd - Sgt. Frank Tree

“That Russian cannibal creep is telling everyone he did 50 plus. That reflects badly on both of us. This record should be held by an American.”

Jake Busey - Johnny Bartlett

Well, there were these two old boys and they hung their peckers off a bridge to piss. One old boy from California, the other from Arkansas. The old boy from California says "Boy, this water's cold", and the old boy from Arkansas says "Yeah, and it's deep too". Get it?
Rick Dial - Bill Cox

- Handsome Guerilla: The American girls are very... what's the word? Superficial.
- Caroline Harvey: Yeah. God, I really hate that. Like, I'm into different cultures and different ways of doing things. Like we're watching "Mr. Ed" on TV the other day, and he's speaking French, or something.
Gustavo Cerezo - Handsome Guerilla
Meadow Sisto - Caroline Harvey

“- Barney Caine: You see, professor, I'm a little tired of being lied to and shot at. And your phony nostalgia about the good old days doesn't impress me.
- Siebold: Don't play the sanctimonious American with me, mister.”
George C. Scott - Barney Caine
Ferdy Mayne - Siebold

“We seemingly tolerate a rising level of violence that ignores our common humanity and our claims to civilization alike. We calmly accept newspaper reports of civilian slaughter in far-off lands. We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment. We make it easy for men of all shades of sanity to acquire whatever...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dave Fraunces - Robert F. Kennedy

“- Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura: Where is Hollywood?
- Hollis P. Wood: Right here.
- Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura: What?
- Hollis P. Wood: You're looking at him.”

Toshirō Mifune - Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura
Slim Pickens - Hollis P. Wood

“- Dean Parker: They're going to hunt you down, you know that, don't you? They'll eventually find you and then they will kill you.
- Luis Cali: You Americans always say that, but you never actually do it.”
Louis Gossett Jr. - Dean Parker
Andrew Divoff - Luis Cali

“- Car Thief: So you shoot me?
- Jerry Welbach: It's the American way.”
Richard Coca - Car Thief
Brad Pitt - Jerry Welbach

“I don't wanna get killed by this limey, immigrant jerkoff! I wanna get killed by an american jerkoff!”

Sylvester Stallone - Lt. Raymond Tango

“- Michel Michon: I took some Americans from the station to the Hotel George V. I said my meter was broke. Special rate: 100 francs.
- Daniel: That's a 20 franc ride, tops.
- Michel Michon: They looked as if they'd stiff me on the tip.
- Daniel: They won't like the French.
- Michel Michon: I don't like Americans. We're even.”
Claude Brosset - Michel Michon
Thelonious Bernard - Daniel

“Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily, whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence, the whole nation is degraded.”
Dave Fraunces - Robert F. Kennedy7

“He hates the fact, like Al Qaeda does, that we love freedom.”

George W. Bush - George W. Bush

“If we are not successful, our grandchildren and their grandchildren will beg for crumbs from the Americans!”
Emilio Echevarría - Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana

“I'd like to sing a song about the American Dream. About me. About you. The way our American hearts beat down in the bottom of our chests. About the special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts, maybe below the cockles, maybe in the sub-cockle area. Maybe in the liver. Maybe in the kidneys. Maybe even in the colon, we don't know.”
Denis Colin Leary - Himself

“This is television, that's all it is. It has nothing to do with people, it's to do with ratings! For fifty years, we've told them what to eat, what to drink, what to wear... for Christ's sake, Ben, don't you understand? Americans love television.”
Richard Dawson - Damon Killian

“I don't know anything about the enemy. I thought all Americans were cowards. I was taught they were savages.”
Ryo Kase - Shimizu

“- General Pierce: We use the same technique with triage on the battlefield. Sometimes, it's necessary to make difficult choices.
- Vice-President Becker: I don't accept that abandoning half the country is necessary!”

Chuck Shamata - General Pierce
Kenneth Welsh - Vice President Becker

“I'd just been knocked unconscious and now an American, who'd never driven a stick shift, was driving my car down the wrong side of the road.”
Joseph Fiennes - Laurence

“American girls would seriously dig me with my cute British accent.”
Kris Marshall - Colin Frissell

“Those poor schmucks… they drive Chevrolets, shop at Wal-Mart, never miss an episode of Friends. These are Americans.”
Morgan Freeman - Col. Abraham Curtis

“This is just the kind of pretentious bullshit that Americans always say to french girls so they can sleep with them.”
Virginie Ledoyen - Françoise