America Quotes
I did my first movie, "The Mambo Kings," in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.
My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.
The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man's face would make you think of it but his hope might, his courage might.
I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'
America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.
Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.
Other countries have outeducated us. They have made this a priority. And a big part of what I'm trying to do, frankly, is raise the profile of education and get America to wake up.
Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.
Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow bodybuilders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.
To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.
I'm endlessly putting myself on tapes for things over in America! I'm always sitting at home, learning lines, sending stuff to America.
Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.
I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.
I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.
I like actors who are themselves. I know in America you like actors who change their nose or wear a lot of wigs, and they like to take pretty girls and make them super ugly.
There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.
Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in the face of public policy that have written too many young people off.
Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa.
America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.
There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.
The young are going to be the messengers of this continued strengthening of the diversity in America.
Obama said if elected his government would "harness technology to confront the biggest challenges that America faces".
What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth.
The UK is an extraordinary partner for America and a force for good in an unstable world. I hope it remains strong, robust and united.
We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.
The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.
It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.
You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, America is doing terribly' and 'What are we going to do?'
Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them.
That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.
America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.
This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.
Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.
One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.
