America quotes

“America is built for success.”
Jean-Claude Van Damme

“Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.”
Morgan Freeman On Martin Luther King

“It's for sure a white man's world in America. Look here: I raised that boy since he was the size of a piss-ant. And I'll say right now, he never learned to read and write. No, sir. Had no brains at all. Was stuffed with rice pudding between th' ears. Shortchanged by the Lord, and dumb as a jackass. Look at him now! Yes, sir, all you've gotta be...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ruth Attaway - Louise

“- Glen Lantz: Miss Nude America is going to be on tonight.
- Mrs. Lantz: How can you hear what she's going to say?
- Glen Lantz: Who cares what she says?”
Johnny Depp - Glen Lantz
Sandy Lipton - Mrs. Lantz

“God is going to have to answer to His maker for this part of the country.”

Harry Ruby

“'High Noon' was the most un-American thing I have ever seen in my whole life. The last thing in the picture is old Coop putting the United States marshal’s badge under his foot and stepping on it. I’ll never regret having run out of this country.”
John Wayne

“I've always felt that in America we're all equal. I don't care what you make, or what kind of car you drive. You're not better than me.”
Peter Jason

“There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy.”
Chris Lloyd

“It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence.”
Alfonso Cuarón

“- Col. Samuel Trautman: You don't belong here, why don't you come back with me?
- Rambo: Back to what? My friends died here, and a piece of me did too.
- Col. Samuel Trautman: The war, the whole conflict may have been wrong, but damn it, don't hate your country for it.
- Rambo: Hate? I'd die for it.
- Col. Samuel Trautman: Then what is it you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Richard Crenna - Col. Samuel Trautman
Sylvester Stallone - Rambo

“Ladies and Gentlemen, good morning. Today you will become citizens of the United States of America. No longer are you an Englishman, Italian, a Pole or whatever, neither will you be a hyphenated American. From this day you are no longer a subject of a governement, but an intergal part of the government, a free man.”
Rosetta LeNoire - The Judge

“- Peter: Look, I don't know about you guys, but I'm tired of being pushed around. Aren't you?
- Samir: Yes, Peter, but I'm not going to do anything illegal.
- Peter: Illegal? Samir, this is America.”
Ron Livingston - Peter
Ajay Naidu - Samir

“I will bleed on the American flag to make sure those stripes stay red.”

Laurence Fishburne - Theodore Brassel

“If more guns make people safer, then America would be one of the safest countries in the world. It isn't. It's the opposite.”
Canadian - Himself

“Have you lost your mind? I mean, how is it that you can disrespect a man's ethnicity when you know we've influenced nearly every facet of white America... from our music to our style of dress. Not to mention your basic imitation of our sense of cool; walk, talk, dress, mannerisms... we enrich your very existence, all the while contributing to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Cedric the Entertainer - Sin LaSalle

“In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.”
Marlene Dietrich

“Cocaine is America's cup of coffee.”
Richard Masur - Prison Librarian

“You are not an American, you are the victim of America!”
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

“- Annie: Who would want to kill Mr. Warbucks?
- Grace Farrell: The Bolsheviks, dear. He's living proof that the American system really works and the Bolsheviks don't want anyone to know about that.”

Aileen Quinn - Annie
Ann Reinking - Grace Farrell

“- Gabriel Martin: If we win this war, a lot of things will change.
- Soldier Occam: What will change?
- Gabriel Martin: They call this the New World. It's not. It's the same as the old. But we have the chance to build a new world. A world where all men are created equal under God.”

Heath Ledger - Gabriel Martin
Jay Arlen Jones - Occam

“January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.”
Sir Michael Caine

“American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.”
Tom Hooper

“I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.”
Jennifer Ehle

“- Joe Coughlin: Can you tolerate an Irishman in your crew?
- Maso Pescatore: This is America. I've lived worse.”
Ben Affleck - Joe Coughlin
Remo Girone - Maso Pescatore

“When you can't trust the lawyers and the advertising men, what the hell's America coming to, huh?”
Frances McDormand - Mildred