Migration quotes

“We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.”
Harrison Ford

“- Johnny: Why would you wanna be the same as everybody else?
- Ariel: 'Cause everybody else goes trick-or-treating. It's what they do here for Halloween.”
Paddy Considine - Johnny
Emma Bolger - Ariel

“- Christy: Cool? Where'd you hear that?
- Ariel: I don't know, I just heard it.
- Christy: You're already American, it's disgusting!”
Sarah Bolger - Christy
Emma Bolger - Ariel

“There's over two million illegal immigrants bending down in this state tonight. This state spend three billion dollars last year on services, on people who had no right to be here in the first place. Three billion dollars. 400 million just to lock up a bunch of illegal immigrant criminals who only got in this country because the fucking INS...” (continue)(continue reading)
Edward Norton - Derek Vinyard

“Now, this is historical. A Puerto Rican, a brother, an Italian, all bunking together in the joint.”
Jay Hernandez - Carlito Brigante

“- Mr. Ray: Migration is about going home.
- Dory: Home.
- Mr. Ray: Which is where you’re from.
- Nemo: How do the stingrays all know where to go?
- Mr. Ray: Instinct, something deep inside you that feels so familiar that you have to listen to it.”
Bob Peterson - Mr. Ray
Ellen Lee DeGeneres - Dory
Hayden Rolence - Nemo

“Puerto Rican's been getting jammed since the fortys, and ain't nobody said nothing. My people. They hit New York and filed into the roach stables in Spanish Harlem and the South Bronx. They sat behind the sewing machines, stood behind the steam tables and marched behind the brooms. In other words, they busted their ass.”
Jay Hernandez - Carlito Brigante

“I like the water. Even when we were coming over, the sea was so beautiful. I never wanted to sleep, I was happy. I was ashamed to be so happy. People were dying.”

Jennifer Lopez - Gabriela

“What are you sayin, Pop? That because I'm a greasy immigrant, all I can do is clean fish? That ain't enough! I got a right to find work that uses my brain!”

Christian Slater - Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano

“- Scott Pritchard: You South African?
- Nina Beka: That's right?
- Scott Pritchard: I don't see a U.S. visa. You're an illegal alien. Do you know who I am? I can pick up that phone and I can have you on the first plane to Johannesburg. I'm assuming you have a reason for not wanting to be there.”

Will Patton - Scott Pritchard
Iman - Nina Beka

“- Lara Royce Craig: Do you speak English?
- Indian Joe: Do I look like some goddamned foreigner?
- Lara Royce Craig: I'm sorry.
- Indian Joe: Of course I speak English, also Creole, French, Spanish. I'm a native born American Indian, not some half breed immigrant like you all.”
Jill Ireland - Lara Royce Craig
Larry Sellers - Indian Joe

“- Dr. Wilbur Larch: She was an immigrant.
- Fuzzy: What's an immigrant?
- Dr. Wilbur Larch: Someone not from Maine.”

Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Wilbur Larch
Erik Per Sullivan - Fuzzy

“The truth is I am a driver. Nothing more. This is my destiny. I will never know what it's like to be an american.”
Yvan Attal - George

“I'm afraid of what's ahead. I'm afraid of another war. Your father died when he was young. He died for England, Johnny. But you're half American. You're my son. You belong to America too, not only England.”

Irene Dunne - Susan Ashwood

“Fuck the Korean grocers with their pyramids of overpriced fruit and their tulips and roses wrapped in plastic. Ten years in the country, still no speaky English?”
Edward Norton - Monty Brogan

“My parents were Hungarian immigrants. They took the name MacIntyre 'cause they thought it sounded more American!”
Peter Riegert - Mac

“I didn't come to America to live and walk the streets like a filthy Arab! I came to America to live!”
Shohreh Aghdashloo - Nadi

“How did I survive growing up? Hustling, thieving, break-in's. Anything for dollars in them days. Blacks on one side, Italians on the other, and Puerto Ricans stuck right there in the middle. And any way you cross the line could get your ass killed!”
Jay Hernandez - Carlito Brigante

“Every night, thousands of these parasites stream across the border like some fuckin' piñata exploded.”
Edward Norton - Derek Vinyard

“Every year, the United States permits the entrance of about 150,000 immigrants. That number is proportioned among the various European countries. You were born in Bucharest; so, you come under the Romanian quota.”
Harry Shannon - American Immigration Official

“He married you to pass that date. For the same reason that I married my little American and with the same ring. Just take a look inside at the engraving.”

Paulette Goddard - Anita Dixon

“- Mateo: Where you from?
- Christy: Ireland.
- Mateo: You came all the way to America to trick or treat?”
Djimon Hounsou - Mateo
Sarah Bolger - Christy

“If I say Los Angeles has become, over the years, a mecca for homosexual migration, I am in the right. But look at what I am saying. I am making it sound like faggots are nomadic if not predatory miscreants who have some implied need to move around. I am also likening of the Muslims, or Muslims to them. Whereas saying LA is filled with faggots is...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ryan Phillippe - Mr. Parker

“This is a free country, welcome to almost anyone. And I'm hoping someday maybe you will join me here. Of course I will continue to write to you every week. Yes, in America almost anything is possible. Goodbye for now my beloved family. I love you. Voyia.”

Robin Williams - Vladimir Ivanoff

“- American Immigration Official: The Romanian quota is very small, very crowded.
- Georges Iscovescu: That means I have to wait?
- American Immigration Official: Between five and eight years, Mr. Iscovescu.”
Harry Shannon - American Immigration Official
Charles Boyer - Georges Iscovescu