Germany quotes

“- Zev Gutman: Did your father ever talk to you about Germany?
- John Kurlander: Are you kidding me? He never stopped talking about Germany.”
Christopher Plummer - Zev Gutman
Dean Norris - John Kurlander

“Remember, just because the krauts are dumb doesn't mean that they're stupid.”
William Pierson - Marko the Mailman

“He doesn't speak English. If he does, it's with an accent thicker than sauerkraut sauce.”

Harry Styles - Alex

“We read in the newspapers that the after-war years were bad everywhere, that crime was increasing and that honest citizens were having a hard job to put the gangsters in jail. Well, in Germany the gangsters finally succeeded in putting the honest citizens in jail.”
Anton Walbrook - Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff

“Nothing like driving in a Maybach, huh? Germans know how to make cars, let me tell you.”
John Turturro - Simmons

“Marianne Beausejour-The guns will be taped under the champagne table. The ambassador arrives at precisely at 08:30.
Max Vatan-If he's late?
Marianne Beausejour-He's German, he will be on time.”
Brad Pitt - Max Vatan
Marion Cotillard - Marianne Beauséjour

“I can't stand to hear that man talk! Half the time I don't even know what he's saying. 'This is not the end; it is possibly the beginning of the end, and it is certainly the end of the beginning': do you know what that means? If you ask me, the British should spend more time bombing Germany and less time drinking tea!”

Brenda Blethyn - Auguste Rottgen-van Pels

“You know those movies where the picture just starts to slow down... and melt? Then catch fire? Well, that's Berlin.”
Charlize Theron - Lorraine Broughton

“- Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener: Needless to say, the Germans couldn't give a damn about the Boers. The diamonds and gold of South Africa they're after.
- Major Charles Bolton: They lack our altruism, sir.
- Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener: Quite.”
Alan Cassell - Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener
Rod Mullinar - Major Charles Bolton

“- Daxiat: This may sound strange coming from me, but I think your husband, Lucas Steiner, was wrong to leave France. The new anti-Israelite theater laws apply to spectators and profiteers. But your husband, Mme. Steiner, was a gem. He was the only Israelite theater director...
- Marion Steiner: You may say 'Jewish'.
- Daxiat: Yes. He was the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jean-Louis Richard - Daxiat
Catherine Deneuve - Marion Steiner

“My mother outlived the GDR by three days. I believe it was a good thing she never learned the truth. She died happy. She wanted us to scatter her ashes to the winds. That's prohibited in Germany, both East and West. But we didn't care.”
Daniel Brühl - Alex

“So, what have I learned after all this time? After all the sleepless nights, lying to friends, lovers, myself? Playing this crooked game in this crooked town filled with backstabbers and four-faced liars? I'll tell you what I've learned. One thing and one thing only. I fucking love Berlin!”
James McAvoy - David Percival

“On the evening of October 7, 1989 several hundred people got together for some evening exercise and marched for the right to go for walks without the Berlin Wall getting in their way.”
Daniel Brühl - Alex

“- Coroner: I will not release this body without the correct information.
- Lorraine Broughton: It's a simple mistake.
- Coroner: Miss Lloyd, in Germany, we don't make simple mistakes.”
Barbara Sukowa - Coroner
Charlize Theron - Lorraine Broughton

“Yesterday we fond 16,000 pieces of art in a copper mine. It seems the Germans take better care of their art than people.”
George Clooney - Frank Stokes

“After the war, we had very bad years in Germany. We got poorer and poorer. Every day retired officers or schoolteachers were caught shoplifting.”
Anton Walbrook - Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff

“- Gustav Shank: Couldn't you have picked a better car?
- Himmel Shank: I thought you'd like it. It's German.
- Gustav Shank: Haven't you ever heard of BMW, idiot?”

Jeffrey Jones - Gustav Shank
Edoardo Ballerini - Himmel Shank

“- Anne Frank: I hate them. The Germans. I wish they were dead. They won't stop until they've killed all the Jews!
- Otto Frank: Don't say that. There are good people and there are bad people, it doesn't matter where they come from. Miep and Mr. Klieman are Austrian, just like Hitler. Do you want them to die as well?
- Anne Frank: No.”
Hannah Taylor Gordon - Anne Frank
Ben Kingsley - Otto Frank

- Jan Wolfhouse: So what else do the Germans do?
- Great Gam Gam: They also practice by drinking the urine of a ram.
- Steve "Fink" Finklestein: Because of the pH balance?
- Great Gam Gam: No... because if you can drink ram's piss, fuck, you can drink almost anything.
Paul Soter - Jan Wolfhouse
Cloris Leachman - Great Gam Gam

“You see, they're stubborn. That's the good thing about the Germans. Man, you got to admin, when they get an idea in their heads...”
Ronald Francis Perlman - Koulikov

“They want me to decide who the ardent Nazis were. Truth is, it was the whole country. Nobody's hands are clean.”
Leland Orser - Bernie

“I wish I could live in the shower. I'd take five a day if I had time. I went to this spa in Germany, a sanitarium practically, up on this mountain. The great thing: they just kept you wet, all day.”
Jason Lee - Skip Skipperton

“I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?”
Thomas Kretschmann

“I think I understand unemployment in Germany much better now. People just can't afford to work here.”
Jean-Marc Barr - Leopold Kessler

“- Professor Max Krassman: It is important to remember that you have to hold on to your hat.
- Doc Hopper: What for?
- Professor Max Krassman: When a German scientist tells you to hold on to your hat, it's not casual conversation. Hold on to your hat.”
Mel Brooks - Professor Max Krassman
Charles Durning - Doc Hopper