In America Quotes

Harper Pitt: Night flight to San Francisco - chase the moon across America.

Movie: In America
Harper Pitt: I got this tree from the great Antarctic pine forest, right over the hill.
Mr. Lies: There are no pine forests in Antarctica.
Harper Pitt: This one's a blue spruce.
Mr. Lies: There are no blue spruce in...
Harper Pitt: I chewed this pine tree down with my teeth. Like a beaver. I'm hungry, I haven't eaten in three days. I'm gonna use it to build something. Maybe a fire. Lucky I brought these.
Mr. Lies: Snow'll melt
Harper Pitt: Let it. I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die. But there's still the rest of you. There's your breasts and your genitals... They're amazingly stupid, like babies or faithful dogs. They don't get it, they just want him. Want him.
Mr. Lies: Eskimo's back.
Harper Pitt: I know. I wanted a real Eskimo, someone chilly and reliable. An Eskimo dressed in seal pelts. Not this. This is just some lawyer, just...
Joe Pitt: Hey, buddy.
Harper Pitt: Hey.
Joe Pitt: I looked for you. I've been everywhere.
Harper Pitt: Well, you found me.
Joe Pitt: No, I'm not looking now. I guess I'm having an adventure.
Harper Pitt: Who with?
Joe Pitt: No one you know. No one I know, either.
Harper Pitt: ls it fun?
Joe Pitt: Scary fun.
Harper Pitt: Can I come with you? This isn't working anymore, I'm cold.
Joe Pitt: I wouldn't want you to see.
Harper Pitt: You think it's worse than what I imagine? It's not.

Movie: In America
Louis Ironson: Well, oh boy. A gay Republican.
Joe Pitt: Excuse me?
Louis Ironson: Nothing.
Joe Pitt: Oh, I'm not... no, forget it.
Louis Ironson: Not... Republican? Not Republican?
Joe Pitt: What?
Louis Ironson: What.
Joe Pitt: Not gay. I'm not gay.
Louis Ironson: Oh. Sorry. It's just that sometimes you can tell by the way a person sounds. I mean, you sound...
Joe Pitt: No, I don't. Like what?
Louis Ironson: Like a Republican.
Joe Pitt: Do I sound like a...?
Louis Ironson: What? Like a Republican? Or do I?
Joe Pitt: Do you what?
Louis Ironson: Sound like a...
Joe Pitt: Yeah. Like a... I'm confused.
Louis Ironson: Yes. My name is Louis but all my friends call me Louise. I work in word processing. Thanks for the toilet paper. [Joe goes to speak, but Louis quickly plants a kiss on his cheek before exiting, leaving Joe slightly shocked]

Movie: In America
Prior: And you were there and you, and you. And some of it was wonderful and some of it was terrible but all the same I kept saying I want to go home. And they sent me home.

Movie: In America