“I wish my little boy had lived, so he could have seen America. I used to read to him about it every night when the shades were drawn and the sound of heavy boots marching down the street made my poor little Janka shake until I thought his bones would crack.”

Alla Nazimova - Zofia Koslowska

“- Woman in refugee camp: Fifty thousand Nicaraguans have died and now a Yankee. Perhaps now America will be outraged at what has happened here.
- Claire: Perhaps they will.
- Woman in refugee camp: Maybe we should have killed an American journalist fifty years ago.”
Luisa Sánchez M. - Woman in refugee camp
Joanna Cassidy - Claire

“A blender? I mean, what is this? 1958? Give the little wife a blender?”
Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Annie Banks

“The house doesn't care what's fair, who lives or dies. Know why? 'Cause it's a fucking house!”
Chris Kattan - Pritchett

“- Lina: Jakob, there are thieves in your apartment.
- Jakob: My apartment? What's to steal?”
Hannah Taylor Gordon - Lina
Robin Williams - Jakob