14 Movie Quotes about Philadelphia (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: March 20, 2025

Memorable quotes about philadelphia, 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 In Philadelphia it's worth 50 bucks.

Quote from 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.

Quote from 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?