In Celebration of America’s Birthday today, July 4, 2012, I am sharing some of my favorite Classic Movie quotes about America and Americans!
Here goes…
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You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men they forget even more. Liberty’s too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I’m free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn’t, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that.
–James Stewart as Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, director)
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Oh I see a small Ohio farm boy becoming a great soldier. I see thousands of marching men. I see General Lee with a broken heart surrendering. And I can see the beginning of a new nation, like Abraham Lincoln said. And I can see that Ohio boy being inaugurated as President. Things like that can only happen in a country like America.
–Gary Cooper as Longfellow Deeds in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra, director)
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How we happen to come to America is a great story, but I no tell that.
–Chico Marx as Fiorello in A Night at the Opera (directors Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding/uncredited)
(pictured with Groucho Marx)
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What I am is 100% American. I’m born & raised in the greatest country on this earth & I’m proud of it. -Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire
–Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, director)
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I hereby claim Mars in the name of the United States of America.
–Bud Abbott as Lester in Abbott and Costello Go To Mars (Charles Lamont, director)
(pictured with Lou Costello and Mari Blanchard)
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Underneath this garb, we’re perfectly ordinary Americans.
–Burt Ward as Robin in Batman (1966; Leslie H. Martinson, director)
(pictured with Adam West)
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American millionaires must be all quite mad. Perhaps it’s something they put in the ink when they print the money.
–Hugh Griffith as Charles Bonnet in How to Steal a Million (William Wyler, director)
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If the American army says I can be my wife, who am I to dispute them?
–Cary Grant (as Capt. Henri Rochard) in I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks, director)
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Every time you get tight you weep on my shoulder about the advertising business — how it forces a sensitive soul like yourself to make a living by bamboozling the American public. Well, I would say that a small part of that victimized group has now redressed the balance.
–Melvyn Douglas as Bill Cole in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (H.C. Potter, director)
(pictured with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy)
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There even are places where English completely disappears; in America they haven’t used it for years.
–Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (George Cukor, director)
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He’s got 92 credit cards in his wallet. The minute something happens to him, America lights up.
–Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple (Gene Saks, director)
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I like to be in America, OK by me in America, everything free in America…
–Rita Moreno (as Anita) and the Girls in West Side Story (directors, Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise)
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Annmarie Gatti for Classic Movie Hub
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