Country quotes

“When it comes to dying for country, it's better not to die at all.”
Lew Ayres - Paul

“I realised I'm lucky because in this country, I can rant and rave and call the Prime Minister a dickhead without the army coming in and shooting me, and stopping you all from listening. And I figured that in this country, we don't vote to keep the best party in - cos there's no such thing - but we vote to keep the worst party out.”
Kick Gurry - Jacob Coote

“When you flop in your country you end up in a coffin.”
George Raft - Joe Barton

“- April Logan: Texas must be heaven.
- Dusty Rivers: It will be when you get there.”
Madeleine Carroll - April Logan
Gary Cooper - Dusty Rivers

“- Theodore Seville: Isn't Rio beautiful?
- Alvin Seville: We're in Mexico, Theodore.
- Theodore Seville: Oh. That's what I mean.”
Janice Karman - Theodore Seville
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. - Alvin Seville

“- Jane Wine: What did you say your name was?
- Olaf: Olaf. I'm Swedish.
- Jane Wine: Oh, come on. Are you really Swedish?
- Olaf: No, not quite. My father's Finnish, and my mother's Russian.
- Jane Wine: I could tell...”

Charlene Tilton - Jane Wine
Bubba Smith - Olaf

“- Butch Cassidy: Okay, Ray, same deal. I'll stay out of your jurisdiction.
- Ray Bledsoe: How many places can you promise to stay out of?
- Butch Cassidy: It's a big country.”
Tom Berenger - Butch Cassidy
Jeff Corey - Ray Bledsoe

“If there's anything I don't like, it's driving a stagecoach through Apache country.”
Andy Devine - Buck

“I have been in three different prisons. Three different countries. And you know what I learned? I learned prison is a bad place to be.”
Levan Uchaneishvili - Uncle Nikolai

“Space, you say? Space is a flop. Didn't you know that? An endless junkyard of orbiting debris. Miniaturization, Jack. That's the ticket. That's the edge everybody's been looking for. Who will have that edge Jack? What country... will control miniaturization?”

Kevin McCarthy - Victor Eugene Scrimshaw

"The Statue of Liberty is kaput" - that's disconcerting.

Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“- Bob: I work, let's say, for the government. We've decided to give you another chance.
- Nikita: What do I do?
- Bob: Learn. Learn to read, walk, talk, smile and even fight. Learn to do everything.
- Nikita: What for?
- Bob: To serve your country.”
Tchéky Karyo - Bob
Anne Parillaud - Nikita

“Yesterday we were an army with no country, tomorrow, we have to decide which country we want to buy!”

Jeremy Irons - Simon Gruber

“It's the light. You go into it, and out of it. I'm not surprised this country has so much violence. I'm surprised it has so little. Some people can't beat it. Doug couldn't. But I'm not Doug.”
Owen Wilson - Vann

“I knew I can't make those movies anymore. I can't make another piece of art that glorifies violence and bloodshed and brutality. I can't contribute another stone to this landslide of dehumanising rage that has swept across this country like a pestilence.”
Steve Martin - Davis

“- Winifred Ames: Why Albania?
- Conrad Brean: Why not?
- Winifred Ames: What have they done to us?
- Conrad Brean: What have they done for us? What do you know about them?
- Winifred Ames: Nothing.
- Conrad Brean: See? They keep to themselves. Shifty. Untrustable.”
Anne Heche - Winifred Ames
Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean

“- Mr. Sparks, the Tennis Pro: Are either of you Greek?
- Arthur: No.
- Maurice: Well, yes, actually I'm half-Greek.
- Mr. Sparks, the Tennis Pro: Top half or bottom half?”
Billy Connolly - Mr. Sparks, the Tennis Pro
Stanley Tucci - Arthur
Oliver Platt - Maurice

“You know... I love this country.”

Monirak Sisowath - Phat (K.R. Leader 2nd Village)

“- Mr. Ferguson: You damn froggy eavesdropper.
- Hercule Poirot: Belgian! Belgian eavesdropper!”
Jon Finch - Mr. Ferguson
Peter Alexander Ustinov - Hercule Poirot

“This country is in deep trouble people! This country is rotten to the core and somebody better do something about it! Now I want you to take your hand out of that bowl of Fritos, throw away your National Enquirer, and pick up the phone!”

Eric Bogosian - Barry

“Be brave, my friend, you're dying for your country.”

Gene Kelly - Black Arrow

“- Papa Hussein: This damn country has done us in. That's why I'm like this. We should be there. Home.
- Uncle Nasser: But that country's been sodomised by religion. It's beginning to interfere with the making of money. Compared with everywhere... it's a little heaven, here.”
Roshan Seth - Papa Hussein
Saeed Jaffrey - Uncle Nasser

“- Johnny Dean: Albania's hard to rhyme.
- Stanley Motss: What are you looking at me for? It's the name of the country.”

Willie Nelson - Johnny Dean
Dustin Hoffman - Stanley Motss