City quotes

“The first and perhaps only great mayor was Greek. He was Pericles of Athens, and he lived some 2500 years ago, and he said all things good of this Earth flow into the city because of the city's greatness. Well, we were great once. Can we not be great again?”
Al Pacino - Mayor John Pappas

“It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.”

Melvyn Douglas - Count Leon d'Algout

This place is fantastic. It's like “Gone With the Wind” on mescaline.

John Cusack - John Kelso

“This town's had enough heartbreak. Too much. Me, I think you're settin' everybody up for more. I hope I'm wrong. I haven't had to kill anybody since the war.”
Karl Bury - Bob Leffert

“You rule this town as God rules the Earth. You give, and you take away.”

Ciarán Hinds - Finn McGovern

“Smell! A true Florentine smell. Inhale, my dear. Deeper! Every city, let me tell you, has its own smell.”
Dame Judi Dench - Eleanor Lavish, a novelist

“You're going there? If there is such a thing as hell on earth, that's it.”

Bob Hoskins - Bill Nelson

“There's something terribly wrong here in Derry, and you know it!”
Tim Reid - Mike Hanlon

“- Preston Tucker: How do you like your coffee?
- Abe: In the city.”
Jeff Bridges - Preston Tucker
Martin Landau - Abe

“I've seen things in this city that make Dante's Inferno read like Winnie The Pooh.”
Peter Weller - Stuart Chappell

“Generally, I like to stay out of other people's business. But Pawnee is the fourth most obese city in America. The kids here are beefy. They're just husky, big boned, plus sized chunk monsters...”

Rashida Jones - Ann Perkins

“You're in probably the wickedest, most corrupt city, most Godless city in America. Sometimes it frightens me. I wonder what the end's going to be.”

Spencer Tracy - Father Tim Mullin

- Wayne Campbell: So, do you... come to Milwaukee often?
- Alice Cooper: Well, I'm a regular visitor here, but Milwaukee has certainly had its share of visitors. The French missionaries and explorers were coming here as early as the late 1600's to trade with the Native Americans.
- Pete Freezin': In fact, isn't "Milwaukee" an Indian name?
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Mike Myers - Wayne Campbell
Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper
Pete Freezin' - Pete Freezin'

“- Jeff Dunham: Walter, are you happy to be here?
- Walter: [sarcastically] Overjoyed! Last week, I was lying on a beach in Maui, and I couldn't decide, gee, should I stay in Hawaii or go to frickin' Santa Ana? My god, I can die happy now.
- Jeff Dunham: Fine city.
- Walter: I don't give a damn.”
Jeff Dunham - Himself
Jeff Dunham - Walter

“22 years. Man, L.A. has changed a lot during that time. The air got dirty and the sex got clean.”
Gary Busey - Pappas

“- Kitty: How are we gonna recognise the lotto man when he comes?
- Jackie O'Shea: He sneezes.
- Kitty: Sneezes?
- Jackie O'Shea: Sneezes. He gets hay fever when he's in the country.”
Kitty Fitzgerald - Kitty
Ian Bannen - Jackie O'Shea

- Blaine Bingham: Did you know that Chicago means, "the smell of wild onions"?
- John L. Sullivan IV: Did you New York just means, "New York"?
Christopher Reeve - Blaine Bingham
Burt Reynolds - John L. Sullivan IV

“- Jill Young: So, this is L.A., huh? Everything looks the same. How do you know where you are?
- Gregg O'Hara: It's easy. The ocean's that way, the mountains are that way, Mexico's that way, and Canada's that way. You don't have to worry about the rest; you'll never see it through the smog.”
Charlize Theron - Jill Young
Bill Paxton - Gregg O'Hara

“This is paradise, I'm tellin' ya. This town like a great big pussy just waiting to get fucked.”
Al Pacino - Tony Montana

“- Jack Ruby: What do you think of Cuba?
- Sheryl Ann DuJean: Mmmm... I think it's gonna be swell when they get it finished.”
Danny Aiello - Jack Ruby
Sherilyn Fenn - Sheryl Ann DuJean

“- Sadie Ratliff: Isn't it exciting?
- Rose Ratliff: Oh yeah, the noise, the smog, the crowds, the muggers, sex fiends, white slavers, politicians, it's a pistol. I got about as much use for it as a toad has for spit curls!”

Bette Midler - Sadie Shelton
Lily Tomlin - Rose Shelton

“In Boston, we had a secret. In Vegas, we had a life. Micky said I was gonna have more fun than I could possibly imagine. And he was right. It was too good to be true. And it felt like it was never going to end.”
Jim Sturgess - Ben Campbell

“I miss the city. The pollution, the crime, the noise. I'm an emotional wreck, I really am.”
Kevin Spacey - Dwayne Hanson

“- Adam: People who are tragically ambitious and smart go to New York and people who are just tragically smart come here.
- Rebecca: Oh. What about people who are just tragically ambitious?
- Adam: They go to LA.”
Josh Charles - Adam
Penelope Ann Miller - Rebecca

“Nothing's free in Waterworld.”
Kevin Costner - Mariner