Country quotes

“- Mrs. Van Schuyler: You perfectly foul French upstart!
- Hercule Poirot: Belgian upstart, please, madame.”
Bette Davis - Mrs. Van Schuyler
Peter Alexander Ustinov - Hercule Poirot

“This is Berk. It snows nine months of the year, and hails the other three. Any food that grows here is tough and tasteless. The people that grow here are even more so. The only upsides are the pets. While other places have ponies or parrots... we have... dragons.”
Jay Baruchel - Hiccup

“- Desmond Rhodes: The SAT is racist. Who made the test? Rich white guys. Who scored the highest on the test?
- Roy: Asian chicks. They can't drive, but they can kick the shit out of the SAT.”
Darius Miles - Desmond Rhodes
Leonardo Nam - Roy

“Connecticut is the fifth ring of hell.”
Denis Colin Leary - Gus

You don't know what it is not to have a home. That's why you European Reds don't get it. You say "It's nothing", but you have a home to come back to. Home is everything.
Omar Metwally - Ali

“You know what? I will tell you, I love your country! No more communism, no rules of any kind, really. I'm filling my suitcase with steroids and art from ancient Mesopotamia, ran over an old woman yesterday, best vacation I ever had!”
Steve Carrell - Maxwell Smart

“When a country has five percent of the world's population but does fifty percent of its military spending, then the persuasive powers of that country are on the decline.”
Alexander Siddig - Prince Nasir Al-Subaai

“What does humiliation matter if it's for the country's good?”
Wojciech Pszoniak - Robespierre

- Gail Wallens: Author of "Hostage Terrorist, Terrorist Hostage: A Study in Duality". Dr. Hasseldorf, what can we expect in the next few hours?
- Dr. Hasseldorf: Well, Gail, by this time the hostages should be going through the early stages of the Helsinki Syndrome.
- Harvey Johnson: As in Helsinki, Sweden.
- Dr. Hasseldorf: Finland.
Mary Ellen Trainor - Gail Wallens
George Christy - Dr. Hasseldorf
David Ursin - Harvey Johnson

“- Buster Stupid: What if we formed our own army?
- Petunia Stupid: Then we'd have to form our own country.
- Joan Stupid: We could call it Stupidia.”
Bug Hall - Buster Stupid
Alex McKenna - Petunia Stupid
Jessica Lundy - Joan Stupid

“A hundred miles to the north, is the country of Burani. And here trouble is brewing...”
Paddy O'Byrne - Narrator

“It's a very difficult surgical operation. Cut the heart out without killing the patient. The history of our country, however, is a very tough old patient, and we'll do the best we can.”
Philip Merivale - Professor Sorel

“We had to take it, because no one would ever give it to us.”

Gila Almagor - Avner's Mother

“- Grimm: I booked the eleven o'clock to Martinique.
- Phyllis: Martinique?
- Loomis: Martinique? But I don't know anything about Martinique.
- Grimm: What did you know about Fiji?
- Loomis: Well... nothing.”
Bill Murray - Grimm
Geena Davis - Phyllis
Randy Quaid - Loomis

“- Agent Simmons: Nokias are real nasty. You've gotta respect the Japanese. They know the way of the samurai.
- Maggie Madsen: Nokia's from Finland.”

John Turturro - Agent Simmons
Rachael Taylor - Maggie Madsen

“Our country is all that we have, and we will fight to keep it.”
Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman - Ten Bears

“It was there, in the war-torn country side amidst the fighting between government troops and the Khmer Rouge guerrillas, that I met my guide and interpreter, Dith Pran, a man who was to change my life in a country I grew to love and pity.”

Sam Waterston - Sydney Schanberg

“What's wrong with this fucking country? Everybody hates everybody!”

Gurdeep Singh - Pakistani Proprietor

“In Texas we have the death penalty, and we use it! If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back! That's our policy!”
Ron White - Ron White

“- Dutch Van Den Broeck: What happens if you don't get elected?
- Kay Chandler: The country goes to hell.”
Harrison Ford - Dutch Van Den Broeck
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Kay Chandler

“This is a new country we're building up. There's no room in for weaklings - men or women!”
Helen Ware - Mrs. Taylor

“- Tjaden: How do they start a war?
- Albert: Well, one country offends another.
- Tjaden: You mean there's a mountain over in Germany gets mad at a field over in France?”
Slim Summerville - Tjaden
William Bakewell - Albert

“I don't love the government, but I do love my country.”
Toni Edgar-Bruce - Lady Houston

“Where would you have us go Charlie? Maybe you would prefer us to take a piece of Central Africa or Uruguay? Not Egypt, thank you, we tried that once and it was not a success. Or back to the ghettos?”
Diane Keaton - Martin Kurtz

“I love my country. Now give me the watch so I can go to Costa Rica.”

French Stewart - Dr. Earl Dopler