Americans quotes

“We don't want to be thought unsophisticated, do we? Mr. Weissman's an American. They do things differently there.”

Helen Mirren - Mrs. Wilson

“I am an American of German birth, and there are hundreds of thousands like me who stand absolutely against you Nazis! You can't make these ex-soldiers believe that all the Germans in America are traitors like you!”

Frederick Giermann - German-American man

- Fred: "Yankee" and "gringo" are obviously pejorative, but it's the standard dictionary term that's the most insulting of all. "Estadunidense". Dense. D-E-N-S-E. It's the same spelling. Dense: thick, stupid. Every time you hear it. Estadunidense-dense-dense. It's like a direct slap in the face. It's incredible.
- Montserrat: I think you are too... (continue)(continue reading)
Chris Eigeman - Fred Boynton
Tushka Bergen - Montserrat Raventos

“- Anna Baragli: He's definitely gonna steal the Codex. I can feel it. I'm not sure when.
- Cardinal: Attempt to steal, you mean. The vanity in this man Hudson Hawk! The Vatican has foiled the advances of pirates and terrorists. We will not lie down for some schmuck from New Jersey.”
Andie MacDowell - Anna Baragli
Leonardo Cimino - Cardinal

“I'm a normal, red-blooded American man. I like to look at naked women. I love breasts; the bigger, the better. Nipples like udders, nipples like saucers, big pale rosy-brown nipples. Little bitty baby nipples. Real or fake, what's the difference? I like tits. Who's kidding who? Tits are great!”
Greg Kinnear - Bob Crane

“- Michael Fitzsimmons: Gilfond's okay, except that he thinks Hemingway is great literature.
- Peggy Sue: And you don't?
- Michael Fitzsimmons: He's a fisherman. The most overrated writer of the century. I mean, man he is the perfect American Author - fat, violent, drunk.”
Kevin J. O'Connor - Michael Fitzsimmons
Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue

Americans, all you care about is your own damn pilots! What happens when the fighting starts again? Will America recommit its forces to stop a major war? No, you don't have any control over that little detail, do you? You might have helped save your man today, Reigart, and I emphasize "might", but you risk the lives of thousands tomorrow.
Joaquim de Almeida - Piquet

“We're on another useless joyride at the cost of mere millions to the US taxpayer.”

Gabriel Macht - Stackhouse

“Americans they do not deserve what they have. They have the eyes of small children who are forever looking for the next source of distraction, entertainment, sweet taste in the mouth.”
Ben Kingsley - Behrani

“- Anita: Back home little boys don't have war councils.
- Bernardo: Ah, but they do here. You want me to be an American, don't you?”
Rita Moreno - Anita
Tony Mordente - Bernardo

“The American public's attention span is about as long as your dick.”
G.D. Spradlin - R. J. Hacker

“We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.”
Ed Harris - Gene Kranz

“It's amazing to me that Americans can think a disease has a sexual preference. But that's all Americans think of... Sex. Sex. Sex.”
Patrick Bauchau - Dr. Luc Montagnier

“- Mr. Keyes: By your actions, sir, you are risking the future of the human race!
- General Sline: To guarantee the American way of life, I'm willing to take that risk.”
William Prince - Mr. Keyes
Steve Forrest - General Sline

“- Highway Patrolman: Ah, Americans. Welcome to Ontario, sportsman's paradise!
- Sheriff Bud Boomer: Isn't it though.”
Dan Aykroyd - Highway Patrolman
John Candy - Sheriff Bud Boomer

“You should go down on your knees every night and give thanks to god that you're not a yank. If you were, Al Capone would be coming to you for instruction.”

“Mr. Gant, you are an American. You are a free man. I am not. There is a difference. If I resent the men in London who are ordering my death, then it is a small thing when compared with my resentment of the KGB.”
Nigel Hawthorne - Pyotr Baranovich

“Americans are a good people. They're a just people, Mr. Runyon, and they will forgive you, but they will not forget.”
Jeff Bridges - President Jackson Evans

“- Air Marshal Kutuzov: You had considered, First Secretary, that this could all be an elaborate bluff by the Americans to distract us from looking to the north, while this single aircraft attempts to escape to the south?
- First Secretary: No, Kutuzov, the Americans are simply paying the price for too many years of softness - paying with an act...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alan Tilvern - Air Marshal Kutuzov
Stefan Schnabel - First Secretary

“You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the road sides, you will play golf, and enjoy hot hors d'oeuvres. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have...” (continue)(continue reading)

Christina Ricci - Wednesday Addams

“You Americans have no sense of history.”

David Goldman - Nicholas

“- Schaffer: Look, Major, this is primarily a British operation. I'm an American. I don't even know why the hell I'm here.
- Maj. Smith: Lieutenant, you're here because you're an American.”
Clint Eastwood - Schaffer
Richard Burton - Maj. Smith

“- Halley Reed: After all, he is an American phenomenon.
- Cliff Stern: Yeah, but so is acid rain.”
Mia Farrow - Halley Reed
Woody Allen - Cliff Stern

“- 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

“No matter what they do to us, we are Americans. If we help, and support, one another, we... will... prevail.”

Lawrence Pressman - Cathcart