14 Movie Quotes about Philadelphia (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 20, 2025

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

1 In Philadelphia it's worth 50 bucks.

Dan Aykroyd as Louis Winthorpe in Trading places (1983)

2 Your wife was killed in a street accident, wasn't she? -Yes, in Philadelphia. A brewery wagon and four horses ran her down.

Vincent Price as Mr. Theodore Evans; Ida Lupino as Miss Amanda in Fugue in C Minor (Suspense)

3 And this is your first visit in Philadelphia? It's a quaint old place, don't you think? Filled with relics. And how old are you, Mr. Connor?

Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

4 Colored can't earn that kinda money, boy. Hell, that's more than I make in a month. Now, where did you earn it? -Philadelphia. -Mississippi? -Pennsylvania.

Rod Steiger as Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

5 Well, just being in Philadelphia makes me feel patriotic. Beautiful people in a beautiful city comin' up to me on the street wishing me the best. I love my Philadelphia brothers, and I'm proud to be an American.

Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed in Rocky (1976)

6 This the city of brotherly love? -That's what New Yorkers call it. They don't live here.

Humphrey Bogart as Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock in Dead Reckoning (1947)

7 Pardon, can you tell me what time is the next train to Philadelphia? -There's a train there once a week and sometimes twice a day. -Thank you. -That's all right.

Chico Marx as Chico in The Cocoanuts (1929)

8 Atlanta, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Destroyed.

Bill Pullman as Thomas J. Whitmore in Independence Day (1996)

9 Virgil, that's a funny name for a nigger boy that comes from Philadelphia. What do they call you up there?

Rod Steiger as Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

10 500 invitations have gone out. All of Philadelphia society will be there.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997)

14 Movie Quotes about Philadelphia (+ Sound Clips)

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