23 Movie Quotes about Immigrants (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: August 4, 2025

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

1 Qu'est-ce que c'est? Ah! A little immigrant. Now they are coming by bottle.

Christopher Plummer as Henri le Pigeon in An American Tail

2 You come to this country, take advantage of it's system and think because we're tolerant, we are weak and helpless.

Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills in Taken (2008)

3 Everybody has days when they think the grass might be greener somewhere else.

Quote from Madagascar

4 Well, you're not gonna get a green card with that attitude, pal. Okay?

Bill Murray as Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters II

5 Ah! Then you are in luck, my little immigrant. This is America!

Christopher Plummer as Henri le Pigeon in An American Tail

6 Don't worry about a thing. She's the creme de la creme. My buddy took the Vice Chancellor of Germany to her. Now he wants to immigrate to this country.

Quote from Scent of a Woman (1992)

7 If we take these barbarians in amongst us, our enemies will say is it because we are weak. Then they will pour in on us from everywhere.

Quote from The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

8 Most of the immigrants didn't find the streets paved with gold. Instead, they found hard times.

Michael Keaton as Johnny Dangerously in Johnny Dangerously

9 Listen, Sonny, I would like to help, but my status in your country is not what you would call legal. -It's okay. -I'm outtie.

Rob Schneider as Nazo in Big Daddy

10 There are millions like them waiting at our gates. If we do not open these gates they will break them down, and destroy us.