Country quotes

“The Saudi Royal Family cannot appear as if they're losing control. If they lose control of their country, lose control of the people, they risk losing control of the oil. And that's not going to happen.”

Jennifer Garner - Janet Mayes

“Envy the country that has heroes, huh? I say pity the country that needs them.”
Matthew McConaughey - Denton Van Zan

“It's all about honour and respect with these head-banging nationalist outfits.”
Louis Emerick - Trevor

“You can print money, manufacture diamonds, and people are a dime a dozen, but they'll always need land. It's the one thing they're not making any more of.”

Kevin Spacey - Lex Luthor

“- Coach Gordon Bombay: I thought Iceland was covered with ice.
- Marria: No, it's very green!
- Coach Gordon Bombay: I thought Geenland was green!
- Marria: Greenland is covered with ice, and Iceland is very nice!”
Emilio Estevez - Coach Gordon Bombay
Maria Ellingsen - Marria

“- Brucey Madison: You thinking about moving out here, Pop?
- Oscar Madison: To where? Santa Yosinta-Malienta-Poliguenta? I'm not gonna learn another language just to find my way home at night.”
Jonathan Silverman - Brucey Madison
Walter Matthau - Oscar Madison

“There is only one sacrifice nobler than sacrificing one's self for their country; that is marrying a man who does.”
Tim Pigott-Smith - General Feversham

“- Otto Frank: Don't forget: we are German.
- Anne Frank: No, we're Dutch. Aren't we Margot?
- Margot Frank: Of course we are.
- Anne Frank: I don't want to be German. Not ever.”
Ben Kingsley - Otto Frank
Hannah Taylor Gordon - Anne Frank
Jessica Manley - Margot Frank

“There are millions out there dying for their countries, and what good is it?”
Lew Ayres - Paul

“You killed them for the sake of a country you now choose to abandon. The country your mother and father built, that you were born into. You killed them for Munich, for the future, for peace.”

Geoffrey Rush - Ephraim

“- Wiploc: Finland is here?
- Valerie: Finland? No, this is the Valley. Finland is the capital of Norway. Gawd, you guys sure learn fast.”
Jim Carrey - Wiploc
Geena Davis - Valerie

“- Nick Lassiter: What happens if they catch me? You gonna bring on the cavalry?
- Peter Breeze: Well... if they catch you in the embassy there's nothing we can do. That embassy is Germany, you might as well be in Berlin.”
Tom Selleck - Nick Lassiter
Joe Regalbuto - Peter Breeze

“No one will ever forget that night and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.”

Natalie Portman - Evey

“With all this permissive sex, and recreational violence, it's no wonder this country is in the mess it's in. I mean, it's like the old saying: when you lay down with dogs, you get up with puppies!”
Bob Trimboli - Lt. Jack B. Nimble

“This is a free country, you can be a communist if you want to be a communist!”

Laurie Holden - Adele Stanton

“We have no quarrel with the people of Spain or of any other country; but when the ruthless ambition of a man threatens to engulf the world, it becomes the solemn obligation of all free men to affirm that the earth belongs not to any one man, but to all men, and that freedom is the deed and title to the soil on which we exist.”
Flora Robson - Queen Elizabeth

“No American should find himself in a foreign land without a pistol.”
Sir Ian Holm - Tom Frost

“- Ariel: What are transvestites?
- Christy: A man who dresses up as a woman.
- Ariel: For Halloween?
- Christy: No, all the time. It's just what they do here.”
Emma Bolger - Ariel
Sarah Bolger - Christy

“We consider ourselves blessed in our Constitution. We tell ourselves our Parliament is the envy of the world. But we live in the health and well-being of the sovereign as much as any vizier does the Sultan.”
Julian Wadham - Pitt

“- Bill Tanner: He was operating in Moscow in 1996. Pyongyang, North Korea before that. And he's been spotted in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq, Iran, Beirut and Cambodia.
- James Bond: All the romantic vacation spots.”
Michael Kitchen - Bill Tanner
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

“Santa Flan... What kinda of shitty name for a country is that?”
Alex Winter - Ricky Coogan

“I am only a radio star with just one weekly show but speaking as one of the people. I want you to know we are tired of the decline of Argentina with no sign of a government able to give us the things we deserve.”
Madonna - Eva Perón

“Why don't you leave the poor Arabs alone? Why don't you give them back the land you stole from them?”

Diane Keaton - Charlie

“I like China very much. I like America too. I like all the places I haven't been.”
Greta Garbo - Katrin

“I am a delicate country bird. I hate going into town.”
Bob Hoskins - Boris