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  • La trovi in Hollywood and The Other Hollywood

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

    [Tag:america, success]

  • La trovi in Actors, Activism and Social Issues

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

    [Tag:america, heroes, racism]

  • From the movie: Being There

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    “It's for surea 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 readand 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

    [Tag:america, ethnicity]

  • From the movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street

    “- Glen Lantz: Miss NudeAmerica is going to be on tonight.
    - Mrs. Lantz: How can you hearwhat she's going to say?
    - Glen Lantz: Who cares what she says?”

    Johnny Depp - Glen Lantz
    Sandy Lipton - Mrs. Lantz

    [Tag:america, girl, nudity]

  • From the movie: Malcolm X

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

    [Tag:america, americans, victims]

  • From the movie: I Am Not Your Negro

    “The story of the Negro in America is the story of America, and it is not a pretty story.”
    James Baldwin - Self

    [Tag:america, history, racism]

  • From the movie: I Am Not Your Negro

    “It comes as a great shock, around the age of five or six or seven, to discover that Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, when you were rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians were you. It comes as a great shock to discover the country which is your birthplace and to which you owe your life and your identityhas not in its whole system of...” (continue)(continue reading)
    James Baldwin - Self

    [Tag:america, racism]

  • From the movie: On the Basis of Sex

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    “We're not askingyou to changethe country. That's already happened without any court's permission. We're askingyou to protect the right of the country to change.” Felicity Jones - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    [Tag:america, changing, rights]

  • From the movie: Smoke Signals

    “An Indian man ain’t nothing without his hair.”
    Adam Beach - Victor Joseph

    [Tag:america, dignity, hair]

  • From the movie: Lincoln

    “The greatest measure of the Nineteenth Century. Passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.”
    Tommy Lee Jones - Thaddeus Stevens

    [Tag:america, corruption]

  • La trovi in Actors, Activism and Social Issues

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

    [Tag:america, army, god]

  • La trovi in Career in Cinema

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

    [Tag:america, movie, patriotism]

  • From the movie: Dead Presidents

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    “It's not your faultyou've been brainwashed by America.” N'Bushe Wright - Delilah Benson

    [Tag:america, government, persuasion]

  • From the movie: The Hunt for Red October

    “- Marko Ramius: There's one thing you haven't yet asked me: why?
    - Jack Ryan: Well, I thought you would tell me when you felt ready.
    - Marko Ramius: Well, there are those who believethat we should attackthe United States first. Settle everything in one moment. Red October was built for that purpose.”

    Sir Sean Connery - Marko Ramius
    Alec Baldwin - Jack Ryan

    [Tag:america, fighting, motive]

  • From the movie: CB4

    “Any person who would defile America's pastime by wearing a baseball cap backwards... well, that's an evil that speaks for itself!”
    Phil Hartman - Virgil Robinson

    [Tag:america, apparel, baseball]

  • La trovi in Actors and Politics

    “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

    [Tag:america, equality]

  • La trovi in Hollywood and The Other Hollywood

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

    [Tag:america, comedy, england, wit]

  • From the movie: Swordfish

    “- Stanley: War? Who are we at war with?
    - Gabriel: Anyone who impinges on America's freedom. Terroriststates, Stanley. Someone must bring their war to them. They bomb a church, we bomb ten. They hijack a plane, we take out an airport. They execute American tourists, we tactically nuke an entire city. Our job is to make terrorism so horrific...” (continue)
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    Hugh Jackman - Stanley
    John Travolta - Gabriel

    [Tag:america, defense, terrorism]

  • From the movie: Killing Them Softly

    “America is not a country. It's a business.”
    Brad Pitt - Jackie

    [Tag:america]

  • La trovi in Hollywood and The Other Hollywood

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

    [Tag:america, movie, puritanism]

  • From the movie: Problem Child

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    “I don't give a rats ass for the voters! All I care about is the powerand the powerthat'll give me the money. That's why I'm a success and you're not! America for the Americans. You believethat nonsense? You're stupider than I thought! I'd sell my soul to the Japanese if they made me an offer. And as for you, don't come suckering around me if...” (continue)(continue reading)Jack Warden - Benjamin 'Big Ben' Healy, Sr.

    [Tag:america, elections, success]

  • From the movie: Shooter

    “Welcome to Tennessee, patron stateof shootin' stuff.”
    Mark Wahlberg - Bob Lee Swagger

    [Tag:america, weapons]

  • From the movie: Rambo: First Blood Part II

    “- 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 conflictmay have been wrong, but damn it, don't hateyour country for it.
    - Rambo: Hate? I'd die for it.
    - Col. Samuel Trautman: Then what is it you...” (continue)
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    Richard Crenna - Col. Samuel Trautman
    Sylvester Stallone - Rambo

    [Tag:america, patriotism, war]

  • From the movie: Lions for Lambs

    “We walk, and Afghanistan reverts back to the Taliban. Only now the Taliban has metastasized into something infinitely more vicious and potent because they're now 2-0 versus superpowers. They butcherthe people who helped us, who voted and were stupid enough to put their faithin our word. So call it not only the end of hopefor 10s of millions...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Tom Cruise - Senator Jasper Irving

    [Tag:america, revenge, war]

  • From the movie: Moscow on the Hudson

    “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

    [Tag:america, citizenship, government]

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