Armin Mueller-Stahl Quotes

Michael Kaye I don't want you to ever leave!

Sam Krichinsky One way or another, we all have to leave.

Sam Krichinsky On the weekend, we made music. What music it was! We liked American music. We were very popular ourselves. One night I looked across the floor and I saw this young, lovely girl. I wasn't handsome and I didn't have a beautiful body. But when I touched a woman they fell in love with me.

Ann Kaye He'll be there! I told you! He said, he wants to take some golf lessons and see how it goes.

Eva Krichinsky Golf? He's going to play golf?

Sam Krichinsky That's what I said when I heard. A working person doesn't play golf. It's for people with sweaters and a cap.

Eva Krichinsky Where does he get such crazy ideas?

Sam Krichinsky If I knew things would no longer be, I would have tried to remember better.

Peter Religion is nonsense.

Ben Rosen It's also a gold mine if you know where to dig.

Sam Krichinsky Who's this? Who's this Jules Kaye?

Jules Kaye That's me, Dad. I changed my name.

Izzy Kirk Me too, I changed mine to Kirk. It's easier to say that Krichinsky. Kirk, it's better.

Sam Krichinsky Who said names are supposed to be easy to say? What are you, a candy bar? You got a name! Krichinsky! It's a name! Kaye. Kirk. Two cousins, different names. How can this be? How can this be a family? When the father's called Sam Krichinsky, his son is called Jules Kaye and his first cousin is called Izzy Kirk. This is a family, God damn it! Krichinsky is the name of the family!

Semyon So, you know where I am...and now I know where you are, Anna Ivanovna.

Sam Krichinsky This English, it's very difficult. I never realized how difficult English is. "May" or "can." You can, but you may not. We've come a long way. In the old days, if you had to pee, you peed on a tree. With no "may" or "can." That's progress for you.

Anna How did you get in here?

Semyon There are always open doors, Anna Ivanovna.

Sam Krichinsky A couple of years ago, I went to see the house on Avalon. It was gone. Not just the house, but the whole neighborhood. I went to see the ballroom, where me and my brother used to play. The whole place, gone. Not just that. But the grocery store where we used to shop, gone. All gone. I went to see where Eva lived off Poplar Street. It isn't there. Not even the street. It isn't there. Not even the street. And then I went to see the nightclub I used to have. And thank God, it was there, because for a minute, I thought I never was.

Sam Krichinsky Jules, if you stop remembering, you forget.

Semyon It's always good to have someone who I can trust, to do simple tasks. In this business, sometimes the biggest danger comes from the most stupid things.

Eva Krichinsky Homes? It's too far for homes. Got to be a pioneer, to live out here. You can't get here with a streetcar.

Sam Krichinsky They can build homes, they can put more streetcar tracks down.

Sam Krichinsky I came to America in 1914 - by way of Philadelphia. That's where I got off the boat. And then I came to Baltimore. It was the most beautiful place you ever seen in your life. There were lights everywhere! What lights they had! It was a celebration of lights! I thought they were for me, Sam, who was in America. Sam was in America! I didn't know what holiday it was, but there were lights. And I walked under them. The sky exploded, people cheered, there were fireworks! What a welcome it was, what a welcome!

Sam Krichinsky We're getting farther and farther away from Avalon. I think I'm getting too old for change.

Semyon I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my rules and I drank vodka. Tomorrow I will translate it, and then I will bring what I've done to your home.

Sam Krichinsky What was the movie we saw with the stagecoach? A very good movie.

Hymie Krichinsky ].

Sam Krichinsky The movie had a stagecoach.

Hymie Krichinsky Stagecoach.

Sam Krichinsky Very active movie. ], he was an outlaw but was not an outlaw. What was the movie called with the stagecoach?

Hymie Krichinsky Stagecoach.

Sam Krichinsky That's what I'm saying with the stagecoach.

Hymie Krichinsky Stagecoach.

Sam Krichinsky Stagecoach?

Gabriel Krichinsky Oh, boy, could he drink! What was that stuff called he always used to drink?

Sam Krichinsky ]. Slivovitz! He used to call it, "Block and fall." You have one drink of that, you walk one block, and you fall!

Count von Kaltenborn Mesmerizing ritual, songs and torches-- hard to resist. You are quite intoxicated by it, are you? The flames, the flags, it's a big show-- quite overwhelming, for a simple mind. Look at him. His father was a grocer in Leipzig. He stands there in his uniform as if he were selling sardines.

Sam Krichinsky I found the man who knew the name Krichinsky. He was a little man with big shoes. I'll never forget him. He had such big shoes! They were brand new, beautiful shoes. He told me this was how he made his living. He would break in shoes for the wealthy. Stuff them with newspaper and walk in them. I said, "What a country is this. What a country." The wealthy didn't even have to break in their own shoes.