“- Buggin' Out: Why don't you go back to Massachusetts?
- Clifton: I was born in Brooklyn!”
Giancarlo Esposito - Buggin' Out
John Savage - Clifton

“- Nancy: I hate my fuckin' life.
- Sid: This is just a rough patch. Things'll be much better when we get to America, I promise.
- Nancy: We're in America. We've been here a week. New York is in America, you fuck.”
Chloe Webb - Nancy Spungen
Gary Leonard Oldman - Sid Vicious

“Hello, America, hang on to your lights: they're the only lights left in the world!”

Joel McCrea - John Jones

“This is America, the place to find hope. If you give up now, you will never find them. So never say never.”

Christopher Plummer - Henri

“I miss you, boys. Been more that twenty years. My God, we were young. Well, it was a young country then, full of promise and hope. Anything was possible then if you were an American.”
Brad Johnson - Henry Nash