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There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.
— Jerry Bruckheimer
Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.
— Holly Black
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
— Wim Wenders
Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.
— John Carpenter
There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.
— John Carpenter
I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.
— Tom Hardy
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
— Ken Thompson
I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldn't get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.
— Andrew Stanton
Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.
— Kelly Lynch
I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.
— Christopher Mintz-Plasse
It's the story that counts.
— Vincente Minnelli
And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.
— Thomas Haden Church
Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.
— Kyra Sedgwick
I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.
— Christoph Waltz
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
— Billy Wilder
So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
— Brian De Palma
And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
— Brian De Palma
Filmmaking can be a fine art.
— Terri Windling
Today what is more important for me is performance. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have done it all - 61 movies over 12 years. But now I am looking for quality. It's easy to be a star. Now I want to be an actress.
— Karisma Kapoor
If you're sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating part in the movies are very low, as to be almost negligible, or even in television. But in the theatre, there are still things to do, very interesting, very profound things.
— Brian Dennehy
I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the Academy, which is the first comedy made with Charlie Chaplin in 1914, and I sat there, and I couldn't believe that the entire audience of 2,000 people were laughing that hard from a movie made in 1914 - and there were no words; it was all faces.
— Taylor Negron
I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.
— Michael Bay
I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.
— Michael Bay
I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.
— Michael Bay
It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.
— River Phoenix
I've never seen 'The Goonies.' I've never seen 'Indiana Jones.' I watched 'UHF' over and over again when I was little, and that was it. I had no time for any other movies. I watched 'Naked Gun,' 'UHF,' and 'Airplane!' over and over.
— Eric Andre
The only movies I want to do are the ones I'm passionate about. I care about school, and I'm still a kid. I want to live like that while I can.
— Lily-Rose Depp
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
— Alex Winter
I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
— Bill Paxton
I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that we are.
— Jason Ritter
I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.
— Tim Conway
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
— Tim Roth
Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that.
— Edward Furlong
I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies.
— Jonas Mekas
I grew up loving monsters. I'm just a total monster geek. When I was a kid, I had the Aurora monster models, and I would make them. I loved the Universal horror movies and the Hammer movies. I just had an affinity for them.
— John Logan
The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare when I was 8. That was through the movies, actually - through Olivier's 'Hamlet.' That was the first thing that got me to fall in love with Shakespeare and movies and everything in one big preadolescent rush.
— John Logan
It's harder than it looks to juggle all those things: relationship, movies, YouTube.
— Kian Lawley
I loved Superman growing up. I saw a couple of those movies in the theater, and I watched 'Superman II' 8000 times.
— Stephen Amell
Everybody's a filmmaker today.
— John Milius
Real pirates were better than in movies, more daring and terrifying and cunning than any screenwriter could imagine. They operated during the Golden Age of Piracy, from 1650 to 1720.
— Robert Kurson
I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.
— Tommy Wiseau
When I was a little kid, I wanted to be, like, you know, a movie star, you know? Or, I always have interest in movie, you know? Because I like the visual aspect of the movies, et cetera.
— Tommy Wiseau
We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own.
— Uwe Boll
That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not.
— Kathryn Stockett
I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
— Cameron Crowe
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
— Mary Schmich
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
— Mary Schmich
I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
— William Wyler
You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.
— Jason Patric
Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
— Brad Bird
I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels.
— Mithun Chakraborty
'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.
— Adam Green
While I always thought of making sequels to movies like 'Ghayal,' the filmmakers would almost always veto the idea.
— Sunny Deol
But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.
— Jason Biggs
In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.
— Jacques Audiard
I've always been a fan of movies well before I got involved in the industry. The magic that it brings and being able to, I guess, escape your troubles, escape whatever is going on in life and getting to live in this moment and in the story and live in the lives of these characters.
— Jovan Adepo
I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.
— Isaac Hayes
Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.
— Marvin Hamlisch
My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?'
— Michael Ealy
Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.
— Sue Grafton
Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.
— Emir Kusturica
I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has kids and stuff, so he sounds really awesome, not to mention he makes awesome movies.
— Ty Simpkins
Movies are a voyeuristic experience. You have to make the audience feel like they are peeking through a keyhole. I think of myself as the audience. Then I use light, framing, and motion to create a focal point.
— Haskell Wexler
I think you get less takes on TV than in movies.
— Evan Peters
I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.
— Olivia Holt
Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was 'Godzilla' - the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it's a classic in Japan.
— Matt Reeves
When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.
— Jean-Jacques Annaud
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
— Anthony Minghella
After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'
— Mohamed El-Erian
I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.
— Ken Jeong
The subjects that I am working are movies that say something. They are shouting or criticising something. I would hate to play a princess waiting for the prince to come and give her a kiss.
— Golshifteh Farahani
I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.
— Emily Giffin
I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.
— Matthew Lillard
You just realize that at the beginning of 'Scooby' you're just going to start at level ten and stay at ten the entire time. It's hard. It physically beats you up. It's definitely one of the hardest movies you can do.
— Matthew Lillard
I love all kinds of movies. I love a really good comedy and not the cheesy ones. My parents hate this, but I love horror films. Those are my favorite, and of course, dramatic roles. I'm really drawn to those as well. All different genres.
— Liana Liberato
You know what I loved about 'Sideways'? Well, the wine, of course. But it was one of the few movies in which being a writer was realistically depicted. I loved how the Paul Giamatti character tries so ineptly to talk about his book.
— Kristan Higgins
The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.
— John Woo
I've been on the road since 1983. Nothing ever changed, even when I was doing TV and movies.
— Sinbad
I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
— Mac Davis
I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn't like a good horror movie every once in a while? It's fun to get scared.
— Tara Reid
I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.
— Allison Janney
I've always been really into action movies. Since I was little, that was my favorite type of film.
— Austin Butler
I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!
— Sarah Wayne Callies
I grew up with two sisters, and we owned three movies: 'Grease,' 'It's a Wonderful Life,' and 'Grease 2.' And you can only watch 'Wonderful Life' in the last half of the year. So I don't remember a time when I didn't know 'Grease.'
— Thomas Kail
There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense.
— John Landis
There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.
— Billie Piper
In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.
— Karolyn Grimes
I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind. 
— Gene Siskel
I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.
— Bruce Feirstein
I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.
— Gabriel Mann
I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
— Danai Gurira
While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.
— Jerrold Nadler
Ah, in work, love and the movies, everything is a fight.
— Lina Wertmuller
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
— Stan Brakhage
I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid.
— Mort Sahl
I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like 'Raging Bull', 'Rocky', 'The Set Up', 'Fat City and Hard Times'. I just loved those films.
— Holt McCallany
There's been a vacuum with movies that people can relate to. There's been a paucity of dramas that people can relate to. I think audiences are clamoring to connect - particularly after 9/11 - with things that are genuine and real and I think documentaries are filling that need.
— George Hickenlooper
I think the '70s are always inspiring to me. I was born then, so I have a lot of memories about how my parents were and what kinds of movies I was watching.
— Frida Giannini
I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television.
— Cameron Monaghan
One of my favorite movies is 'Back to the Future'.
— Holland Roden
It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.
— Kitty Carlisle
Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.
— Trieste Kelly Dunn
My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.
— Jeaniene Frost
Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think 'super' might have taken over.
— Max Landis
Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
— Cecil B. DeMille
Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
— Roland Emmerich
The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.
— Peter Weller
For me, honestly, one of the first movies I did I was always pounding coffee, and I crashed so horribly. So I've kind of weaned myself off. You keep getting second and third winds. But for me, I've stopped doing energy drinks or any kind of stimulant. I just kind of go natural.
— Nick Swardson
Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
— Dan Glickman
I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?
— Marc Webb
Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.
— Franco Nero
For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something you can really escape into.
— Agnes Bruckner
I have a saying: 'I'm good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.'
— Tyler James Williams
My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers.
— Alex Karpovsky
I loved scary movies growing up.
— Katie Featherston
'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
— Jerry Orbach
Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.
— Troy Duffy
Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.
— Troy Duffy
There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.
— Ben Platt
I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.
— Pete Cashmore
It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
— Bud Abbott
I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.
— Mark Duplass
In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.
— Christopher Abbott
When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
— Hans Zimmer
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
— John Huston
In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.
— Robert Zemeckis
My only real contact with what my father did was that he could get 16-millimeter prints, so every weekend we would show two or three movies at home. But our house wasn't frequented by stars. My father's personal life was his personal life, and it was separate from his professional life.
— Stanley R. Jaffe
I grew up playing 'Mortal Kombat' as a kid. I was always a fan of the video game. Saw the movies as a kid as well.
— Brian Tee
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
— Louise Brooks
I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.
— Roddy McDowall
It's all about the sensuality of movement, every movement you make. That's why I love doing action movies. It's all about movement, dance - even if you're hitting someone in the face. You've got to sell it all with great passion. There's a narrative to the body. It's exactly the same as dance.
— DeObia Oparei
Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.
— Caleb Deschanel
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
— Mary Pickford
While I'd like to make movies that are uplifting, there's always that part of you that goes, 'I want to play the evil guy because it's not me.' So anything that is not me is a challenge, and if I rise to the challenge, then I've kind of proved myself.
— Dean O'Gorman
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
— Joseph L. Mankiewicz
This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.
— Josh Hamilton
Having my son made me grow up. I'm keeping my dangers in the movies.
— Tom Guiry
I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.'
— Courtney B. Vance
I don't think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because we're pretty much two different kinds of actors. He's done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like 'Uncle Buck' and 'Home Alone' and 'Home Alone 2.' And I've done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS.
— Brian Bonsall
I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.
— Susan Hayward
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
— Oskar Werner
We are the movies and the movies are us.
— David Ansen
I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
— Paige Turco
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
— Pauline Hanson
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
— Malcolm X
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
— John F. Kennedy
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
— Samuel Johnson
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
— Mark Twain
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
— Jesse Ventura
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
— Stonewall Jackson
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
— Thomas Campbell
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
— Albert Einstein
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
— Tecumseh
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
— Abraham Lincoln
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
— Lao Tzu
During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.
— Augusto Pinochet
I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.
— Marquis de Lafayette
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
— Oscar Wilde
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
— Patrick Henry
We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
— Charlie Dent
Peasants, who after the liberation of the country became the masters of their lands and their country under the benevolence of Comrade Kim Il Sung, launched the campaigns for increasing agricultural production and donating cereals out of patriotism, and thus faithfully supported the Party's line of nation building.
— Kim Jong-un
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
— Nick Lampson
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
— George Santayana
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
— Richard Aldington
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
— Henry Steele Commager
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
— Oliver Tambo
Patriotism has no appeal to us justice has. Party has no weight with us principle has. Loyalty is meaningless it depends on what one is loyal to. 
— A. Philip Randolph
Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.
— Ron Paul
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
— Alexander Pope
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched. 
— Guy de Maupassant
It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.
— Marquis de Lafayette
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
— William Pitt
Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
— Bob Latta
All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!
— Marquis de Lafayette
Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.
— John C. Calhoun
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
— Calvin Coolidge
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
— George Bernard Shaw
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
— Alexander Hamilton
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
— James Joyce
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
— George Borrow
I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.
— Joseph P. Bradley
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
— Bertrand Russell
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
— Eugene V. Debs
Americans never quit.
— Douglas MacArthur
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
— George McGovern
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.
— Jesse Ventura
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country. 
— Sinclair Lewis
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
— George Canning
When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five words... 'thank you for your service.' 'Stars Earn Stripes' is a high energy, fun, action show, but at its heart it is all about those five words.
— Mark Burnett
The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
— Clara Barton
Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.
— Payne Stewart
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
— Adlai Stevenson
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
— Robert Walpole
Patriots don't let their nation default.
— Gary Ackerman
It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
— R. Lee Ermey
My country has been very good to me I must be good to my country. 
— Walter Annenberg
The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.
— John Linder
One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
— John Avlon
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
— Robert Jackson
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
— Todd Gitlin
Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.
— Christine Pelosi
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
— Richard M. Nixon
I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.
— George Clooney
America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.
— Charles M. Blow
The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?
— Ronnie James Dio
The great Comrade Kim Jong Il was an outstanding leader who, true to the President's great idea, developed Chongryon into a pacesetter of patriotism, into a model of patriotic loyalty to the motherland, and into a prototype body of overseas compatriots.
— Kim Jong-un
I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
— Ted Cruz
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
— Ambrose Bierce
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
— Ho Chi Minh
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
— Henry IV of England
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
— George Galloway
It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.
— Marquis de Lafayette
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
— Bill Vaughan
I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
— John Buford
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
— Jonathan Mayhew
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
— Dale Carnegie
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.
— Lincoln Steffens
Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.
— Claire Danes
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
— Dave Barry
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
— Davy Crockett
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
— Henry James
Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.
— Chiang Kai-shek
I want to light the lights of patriotism.
— Lech Walesa
Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.
— Michael Ignatieff
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
— Francis John McConnell
Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
— Jimmy Carter
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
— George Jean Nathan
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
— Earl Warren
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
— William Ralph Inge
Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.
— David O. McKay
Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
— Ann Coulter
I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
— Sitting Bull
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
— Michael Ignatieff
From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.
— Thomas Steinbeck
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
— Bruce Springsteen
Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.
— Claire Danes
I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.
— Bill Hicks
Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.
— Louis D. Brandeis
I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.
— Sukarno
Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
— Maria Montessori
Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
— Viktor Orban
Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.
— Bhagat Singh
Our nuclear scientists and engineers have done a splendid job, and naturally, the entire nation has risen to salute their professional excellence, discipline, and patriotism. They have had the benefit of having been led in the past by great men like Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai.
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.
— Ted Cruz
There's something I will say: In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obvious. In France, for many years, you had to fight to be patriotic. People are pushing us from loving our own country.
— Marine Le Pen
Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.
— Jesse Ventura
What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.
— David Blunkett
My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
— Malcolm Turnbull
But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
— Thomas E. Mann
I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.
— Gary Speed
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
— Howard Thurman
Patriotism is the religion of hell.
— James Branch Cabell
Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.
— Chelsea Manning
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
— Winston Churchill
I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.
— Mitt Romney
America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
— Elon Musk
I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'
— Rebecca MacKinnon
I think patriotism is never racism.
— Marine Le Pen
Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny.
— Cory Booker
Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
— Cory Booker
My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.
— Jesse Ventura
Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.
— Jesse Ventura
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
— Ambrose Bierce
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
— Lord Byron
We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
— Francois Hollande
I think Americans are very patriotic.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.
— Joseph Brodsky
Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers' evade pertinent facts that could have recast the doubled-edged issues of racism and loyalty and made them relevant to contemporary times.
— Elvis Mitchell
I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their draft board to volunteer to fight for our country. That act of patriotism was answered with a slap in the face. We were denied service and categorized as enemy non-alien.
— George Takei
I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.
— Morrissey
Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.
— Francis Ford Coppola
The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.
— Caitlyn Jenner
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
— Henry Louis Gates
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.
— Henry Louis Gates
The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers' rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe... and it will be to the benefit of every British citizen.
— Gordon Brown
I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.
— Phil Klay
It is true that of all the states in India, Nagaland has a unique history. We are sensitive to this historical fact. But this uniqueness has in no way diminished the spirit of patriotism among the Naga people.
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
— Valerie Plame
I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.
— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
— Michael Ignatieff
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
— Michael Ignatieff
If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.
— Jennifer Granholm
During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.'
— Monica Crowley
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
— Tommy Lee Jones
Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
— Evan Bayh
Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
— Adam Carolla
Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of mankind and the cause of peace against the patriotism of militarism; social reform against the existing relations of society.
— Ellen Key
For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.
— Karan Johar
To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.
— N. R. Narayana Murthy
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word.
— Harvey Pekar
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
— Denis Diderot
It used to upset me - now it makes me sad - to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis.
— Tamron Hall