America Quotes

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, every household in America by 20 percent. And we'll have to broaden the base to pay for that. Also, a very deep cut in the corporate rate.

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.

Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.

Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.