Country quotes

“Wherever you go in the world, you just have to say you're Canadian and people laugh.”
John Candy

“All my life I've lived by a code and the code is simple: honor the gods, love your woman and defend your country. Troy is mother to us all. Fight for her!”
Eric Bana - Hector

“We are the real countries. Not boundaries drawn on maps with the names of powerful men.”
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Katharine Clifton

“I hate these Catholic countries. It's all blushy-blushy and no sucky-fucky.”
Pierce Brosnan - Julian Noble

“In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.”
Renny Harlin

“If projectile vomiting ever becomes an Olympic event, you would do your country proud.”

Sir John Gielgud - Hobson

“This country was built on genocide and slavery. We killed all the black guys over here and then we shipped in new black guys of our own. And then we brought in Jesus like a bar of soap.”
Giovanni Ribisi - Moberg

“- Chuck Lumley: As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.
- Bill Blazejowski: Is this a great country, or what?”
Henry Winkler - Chuck Lumley
Michael Keaton - Bill Blazejowski

“I will never understand the bathrooms in this country. Why is it that the doors on the stalls do not come all the way down to the floor?”
Jason Alexander - George Costanza

“Marianne Beausejour-When will you be back?
Max Vatan-You know I don't know.
Marianne Beausejour-What the hell is it that's so important?
Max Vatan-Liberating your country.”
Brad Pitt - Max Vatan
Marion Cotillard - Marianne Beauséjour

“Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire. You're just going to have to make up your own mind one day about what's right and wrong.”
Melvyn Douglas - Homer Bannon

“What is your duty to a country? Do you follow it blindly? Or do you challenge your country to be better and stand up to the ideals that all men are created equal and everyone deserves equity, not just equality?”
Winston Duke

“- Ethan: A fella could mistake you for a half-breed.
- Martin: Not quite, I'm eighth Cherokee, the rest is Welsh and English. Least that's what they tell me.”
John Wayne - Ethan Edwards
Jeffrey Hunter - Martin Pawley

“- Ahmed: Our country is in a state of unrest.
- Peterson: Oh, I am sorry!”
Manuel Serrano - Ahmed - Arab Inquisitor
Robert Morley - Peterson

“- Tony Stark: You're from Earth?
- Peter Quill: I'm not from Earth, I'm from Missouri.
- Tony Stark: Yeah, that's on Earth, dipshit!”
Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark
Chris Pratt - Peter Quill

“- Joe Starrett: I wouldn't ask you where you're bound.
- Shane: One place or another. Someplace I've never been.”
Van Heflin - Joe Starrett
Alan Ladd - Shane

“- Billie Dawn: This country and its institutions belong to the people who inhibit it.
- Paul Verrall: Inhabit.
- Billie Dawn: Inhabit it.”
Judy Holliday - Billie Dawn
William M. Holden - Paul Verrall

“Are you sure you're Mexican? You're acting like you're under The Fuhrer or something.”
Clint Eastwood - Earl Stone

“We may be a small country, but we're a great one, too. The country of Shakespeare, Churchill, the Beatles, Sean Connery, Harry Potter. David Beckham's right foot. David Beckham's left foot, come to that.”
Hugh Grant - The Prime Minister

“- President of the United States: You sold control of American missiles to a foreign country?
- R.J. Hacker: If you can call Canada foreign.
- Stu Smiley: … or a country.”
Alan Alda - President of the United States
G.D. Spradlin - R. J. Hacker
Kevin Pollak - Stu Smiley

“- Ali: Eventually the Arab states will rise against Israel. They don't like Palestinians, but they hate the Jews more. It won't be like 1967. The rest of the world will see by then what the Israelis do to us. Israel will cease to exist.
- Avner: This is a dream. You can't take back a country you never had.”
Omar Metwally - Ali
Eric Bana - Avner

“I barely recognize this country anymore. The government's got us seeing Communists in our soup.”

Jim Broadbent - Dean Charles Stanforth

“We'll drive. Keep driving. Head out to the middle of nowhere, take that road as far as it takes us. This is a beautiful country. It's beautiful out there, like a different world. Mountains, hills, cows, farms, and white churches.”
Brian Cox - James Brogan

“- Mrs. Teevee: Loompaland? There's no such place.
- Willy Wonka: Excuse me, dear lady, but...
- Mrs. Teevee: Mr. Wonka, I am a teacher of geography.
- Willy Wonka: Oh, well, then you know all about it and what a terrible country it is.”
Nora Denney - Mrs. Teevee
Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka

“Although Kazakhstan a glorious country, it have a problem, too: economic, social, and Jew.”
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat