America quotes

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

“- 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

“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

“- 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

“We're not asking you to change the country. That's already happened without any court's permission. We're asking you to protect the right of the country to change.”

Felicity Jones - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The country isn't ready. Change minds first. Then change the law.”
Kathy Bates - Dorothy Kenyon

“America's a blinding place for nightlife.”
James Fox - Chas

“- Baby Doll: I'll be 20 tomorrow. Tomorrow is Election Day and my Birthday and the day that Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President for his first term.
- Silva Vacarro: It's a great day for the country for both reasons.”
Carroll Baker - Baby Doll Meighan
Eli Wallach - Silva Vacarro

“One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.”
Anna Paquin

“The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find a worker who can climb a ladder after lunch.”
Harry Anderson

“- Young Student: You say you want to end the war, so why don't you?
- Richard M. Nixon: Change always comes slowly. I pulled out more than half the troops. I'm trying to cut the military budget for the first time in 30 years. I want a volunteer army. But it's also a question of American credibility, our position in the world.”
Joanna Going - Young Student
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon