American Pie Quotes

#1. No one ever comes up to me and says, 'Hey man, I loved your work in 'Road Trip.' They say, 'Are you that guy?' Like, they have no idea. 'Were you in 'American Pie 2?'

Paulo Costanzo

#2. When I was doing the first 'American Pie' movie, I was just happy to have a job. We had a good time, and it was a great group of people, but like any project that I've worked on in my career, you just put your best foot forward, and you're all working together to make the best movie possible.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

#3. I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

Guillaume Canet

#4. In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Don McLean

#5. Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.

Sean William Scott

#6. In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

Jason Biggs

#7. I think 'American Pie' is great.

Paul Dano

#8. One of the things that made 'American Pie' great was also the sexiness of it.

Hayden Schlossberg

#9. By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.

Robert Reich

#10. Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.

Douglas Brinkley

#11. We were with Hayden Schlossberg enormous fans of that first American Pie. We were in college when it came out, and we watched it over and over and over again.

Jon Hurwitz

#12. I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere.

Shane West

#13. When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

Don McLean

#14. There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.

Douglas Brinkley

#15. When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in 'A Clockwork Orange.' He was my hero.

Seann William Scott

#16. In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on classical stories, so any of the Rodgers and Hart musicals certainly influenced me. I was definitely influenced by any of the 'Porgy' songs; I was influenced by 'American Pie.'

Douglas Carter Beane

#17. I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials ... I'd say things like, 'Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach.' Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress.

Teri Garr

#18. When you watch the first 'American Pie' movie, you're like ... 'I know that jock who's kind of sweet and has a girlfriend, and I know that weird off-beat kid.'

Hayden Schlossberg

#19. That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.

Don McLean

#20. American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

Don McLean

#21. Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense.

Don McLean

#22. Chris Christie has officially endorsed Mitt Romney for president. Christie said President Obama is 'shrinking the American pie.' And believe me, if there's one thing Christie hates, it's a small pie.

Jay Leno

#23. I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'

Don McLean

#24. Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

Jason Biggs

#25. What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.

Douglas Brinkley

#26. I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people can say that. I wrote the songs I wanted to write, for me. I had no idea that 'American Pie' would relate to anybody.

Don McLean

#27. I get a lot of dark scripts now. I don't wanna be stuck doing movies like American Pie. For someone my age, once you get started doing them, it's hard to get out.

Agnes Bruckner

#28. When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.

Don McLean

#29. Side note to parents: Anyone who thinks 'Dude, Where's My Car' is more appropriate for children than 'American Pie' because it obtained a PG-13 rating needs to stop trusting the MPAA.

James Berardinelli

#30. Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.

Don McLean

#31. I didn't think American Pie was going to be what it was! I had a very small role and the reception I received was just crazy.

Jennifer Coolidge

#32. American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered such movies as 'Like Mike' and 'New York Minute' with the Olsen twins

Eugene Levy

#33. I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

Johnny Vegas

#34. Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What - suddenly you've magically turned into Noam Chomsky?

Douglas Coupland

#35. ...oppression is as American as apple pie...

Audre Lorde

#36. She's the perfect, all-American girl, like an apple pie, and I just want to eat her up.
I mean, I don't want that. That came out wrong. I totally don't want to eat my assistant.
Or bang my assistant.
Or bend my assistant over the desk.

Lauren Blakely

#37. Women, music, beer, and pie. Rurik, you're just an all-American guy.

Linda Howard

#38. I'm more American than apple pie. I'm like apple pie, with a hot dog in it

Stephen Colbert

#39. Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

Jay Inslee

#40. Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

Gwen Moore

#41. I'm as American as apple pie.

Paul Mooney

#42. I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

H. Rap Brown

#43. The poor folks hate the rich folks, and the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, it's American as apple pie.

Tom Lehrer

#44. What's more American than violence?" Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

Edward Abbey

#45. Don King is as American as apple pie. He is America.

Ving Rhames

#46. As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

Rick Danko

#47. I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

Laura Benanti

#48. Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn't take one more step

Don McLean

#49. American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag ... they fight for one another.

Hal Moore

#50. Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.

Knute Nelson

#51. Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.

Don McLean

#52. Jihad is becoming as American as apple pie and as British as afternoon tea.

Anwar Al-Awlaki

#53. I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

Bill Paxton

#54. Violence is as American as cherry pie. - RAP (HUBERT GEROLD) BROWN

J.D. Robb

#55. I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary.

H. Rap Brown

#56. I've never had apple pie," I blurted out.
...
"You've never had apple pie?"
"No."
His brows rose. "Why?"
"I don't know. Just never tried it."
"That's so ... so un-American," he said, and I rolled my eyes. "Are you a terrorist?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#57. Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

Mike Royko

#58. Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

James Howard Kunstler

#59. Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the '90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.

Vivek Wadhwa

#60. When we think of classic American desserts, we tend to imagine apple pie and ice cream. However, the most classic American dessert of all might be the chocolate chip cookie.

Homaro Cantu

#61. American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.

Camille Paglia

#62. Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?'
She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.

L.J.Smith

#63. Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

George Will