The House I Live In (1945)

Frank Sinatra: Frank Sinatra

Quotes 

• Frank Sinatra : Look fellas, religion makes no difference, except maybe to a Nazi or somebody as stupid. Why people all over the world worship God in many different ways. God created everybody. He didn't create one people better than another. You're blood's the same as mine. My blood's the same as his. Do you know what this wonderful country is made of? Its made up of a 100 different kind of people - and a 100 different ways of talking - and a 100 different ways of going to church. But, they're all American ways.

• Frank Sinatra : My dad came from Italy. But, I'm an American. But, should I hate your father because he came from Ireland or France or Russia? Wouldn't I be a first class fathead?

• Frank Sinatra : Think about that fellas. Use your good American heads. Don't let anybody make suckers out of you.

• Frank Sinatra : Come here. Now, you all stand here - and no hissin' allowed.

  [singing] 

  Frank Sinatra : What is America to me, A name, a map, or a flag I see, A certain word, democracy, What is America to me, The house I live in, A plot of Earth, a street, The grocer and the butcher, And the people that I meet, The children in the playground, The faces that I see, All races and religions, That's America to me...

• [first lines] 

  Recording Engineer : Sinatra recording, take 3.

  Frank Sinatra : [singing]  If you are but a dream, I hope I never waken...

• Self - Orchestra Conductor : Just give me five minutes and I'll have other number ready.

  Frank Sinatra : I'll get a smoke.

• Frank Sinatra : Wouldn't we be silly if we went around hating people because they comb their hair different than ours? Wouldn't we be a lot of dopes?

• Frank Sinatra : You must be a bunch of those Nazi werewolves I've been reading about.