City quotes

“This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the Capital, that is my choice.”
Nicole Kidman - Virginia Woolf

“One town, a million troubles. The one and only Thebes. The Big Olive itself. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.”

Danny DeVito - Phil

“Ghettos are the same all over the world. They stink.”
Jim Kelly - Williams

“- Kaplan: I don't like it any more than you do, Reed, but listen.
- Sergeant Warren Reed: You listen to me, you asshole! You're talking about shutting down a major metropolitan police force! Without cops, this city would tear itself apart!”
Del Zamora - Kaplan
Robert DoQui - Sergeant Warren Reed

“- Vincent: 17 million people. This was a country, it'd be the fifth biggest economy in the world and nobody knows each other. I read about this guy, gets on the MTA here, dies.
- Max: Oh.
- Vincent: Six hours he's riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A., people on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices.”
Tom Cruise - Vincent
Jamie Foxx - Max

“- Nick Lassiter: Tell me about Berlin.
- Kari Von Fursten: Berlin... for me it is the only city. Well Shanghai can be pretty interesting.”
Tom Selleck - Nick Lassiter
Lauren Hutton - Kari Von Fursten

“- Chance: This is the city. Only the strong survive.
- Sassy: Oh, then you're a goner.”
Michael J. Fox - Chance
Sally Field - Sassy

“At Security Concepts, we're projecting the end of crime in Old Detroit within forty days. There's a new guy in town. His name is RoboCop.”
Miguel Ferrer - Bob Morton

“- Wolf: I'm Wolf. Where did they transfer you from?
- Frank Morris: Atlanta.
- Wolf: Nice town, Atlanta.
- Frank Morris: I never saw it.”
Bruce M. Fischer - Wolf
Clint Eastwood - Frank Morris

“- Jennifer: What's outside of Pleasantville?
- Miss Peters: I don't understand.”
Reese Witherspoon - Jennifer

“Just another day in the Big City. Let's go home, boys. Hello.”

Alan Fudge - Phil Janus

“I am a delicate country bird. I hate going into town.”
Bob Hoskins - Boris

“Y'know what I love about this city? You can throw a stick up in the air and it'll land on a taxi or an ambulance.”
Clancy Brown - Nick Mann

“- Ray Donlan: What brings you to our fair city?
- Moe Tilden: I heard there was a way of life out here. Thought I'd check it out for myself.
- Ray Donlan: What are we, like the Amish now?”
Harvey Keitel - Ray Donlan
Robert De Niro - Moe Tilden

“Sometimes we just have to start over, from scratch, to make things right, and that's exactly what we're going to do. We're going to build a brand-new city where Detroit now stands - an example to the world.”
Dan O'Herlihy - Old Man

“Greendale is a bodaciously small town, Lane. A fly speck on the map, a rest stop on the way to the ski slope. I can't even get real drugs here!”
Curtis Armstrong - Charles De Mar

“You don't know what L.A. is like! It's like New Jersey with earthquakes.”
Harvey Korman - Cecil Watterman

They call Los Angeles the "City Of Angels". I didn't find it to be that, exactly. But I'll allow there are some nice folks there.
Sam Elliott - The Stranger

“- Winston Zeddemore: We conjured up a hundred-foot marshmallow man, blew the top three floors off an uptown high-rise, and ended up getting sued by every city, county, and state agency in New York.
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Yeah... but what a ride.”
Ernie Hudson - Winston Zeddemore
Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz

“This is L.A., vato. And you're about to find out that this fucking city can kill anybody!”

Georges Corraface - Cuervo Jones

“Wasn't I lucky to be born in my favourite city!”
Margaret O'Brien - "Tootie" Smith

“- Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun: Where you going?
- Marybeth Cogan: The city.
- Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun: Thought we were in the city.
- Marybeth Cogan: Not if you're from Queens.”
John Cusack - Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun
Bridget Fonda - Marybeth Cogan

“The city's different at night: the air smells better, it's harder to see that the oil rigs outnumber the palm tress; it's almost like the good old days, at least the way I'd like to remember them.”
Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“It's narrow. It's dull. It's a dull, narrow town full of dull, narrow people who don't know anything except what things are like right around here. They have no perspective whatsoever, no scope. They might as well be living in the 19th century 'cause they have no idea what's going on, and if you try and tell 'em that they wanna fucking kill you.”

Mark Ruffalo - Terry

“As Wichita falls... so falls Wichita Falls.”
John Cusack - Charlie Arglist