28 Movie Quotes about Chicago (+ Sound Clips)

Memorable quotes about chicago, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Here's your first assignment. I want you to make up a prayer for the city of Chicago. We'll carry it on the editorial page. 'Our Father, who art in Heaven, last year there were 421 unsolved murders...' All set up in boldface Gothic.

Walter Matthau as Walter Burns in The Front Page (1974)

2 Ticket to Chicago! Used only once! -Gee whiz! Only once, Ma.

Quote from An American Tail

3 Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago.

John Candy as Del Griffith in Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

4 Pizza. -Thin or thick? -Chicago.

Quote from Ghostbusters II

5 The story of my life isn't even going to get us out of Chicago. I mean, nothing's happened to me yet.

Meg Ryan as Sally Albright in When Harry Met Sally...

6 Chicago? You've been to Chicago? Was it wonderful? -No.

Kevin Costner as Jake in Silverado

7 Now, that's Cabrini-Green, not that you'd recognize it today. -Yeah, no kidding. I won't even drive past there.

Quote from Candyman (1992)

8 One more guy in Chicago with a gun, who's gonna notice?

Quote from The Front Page (1974)

9 You ever been in Chicago? -Us? We wouldn't be caught dead in Chicago.

Jack Lemmon as Jerry in Some Like It Hot

10 I do not do business with Chicago.

Quote from Goldfinger