Best American Pie Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

“People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.”

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Author:Don McLean

“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.”

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Author:Teri Garr

“As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie." I have never discussed the lyrics, but have admitted to the Holly reference in the opening stanzas. You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none of them by me. You will find many “interpretations” of my lyrics but none of them by me. Isn’t this fun? Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.”

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Author:Don McLean

“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.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“You realize we're all going to go to college as virgins. They probably have special dorms for people like us.”

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Author:Jason Biggs

“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.”

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Author:Don McLean

“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.”

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Author:Jon Hurwitz

“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.”

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Author:Jennifer Coolidge

“I remember at the time, there were all these teen movies being made. It was this resurgence of John Hughes-esque teen comedies. I was sent a lot of them to audition for, and a lot of them at the time didn't really impress me. I remember I was sent one called East Grand Rapids High, which ended up becoming American Pie, and I didn't like it. Although I think I did audition for it.”

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Author:David Krumholtz

“Obviously [Can't Hardly Wait] wasn't in American Pie, which was a movie about some teenage boys.”

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Author:David Krumholtz

“Then Saturday Night Live spawns... well, everything right down to American Pie 9, where all humor has to be irrelevant, which can get a little tiring.”

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Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“I don't get the great story line, action, mystery scripts; I get comedies. And relationship comedies are what I do. It's what attracted me to American Pie.”

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Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“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.”

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Author:Sean William Scott

“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?”

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“Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!”

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“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”

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Author:Jason Biggs

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

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Author:Shane West

“This country is a nation of thieves. It stole everything it has, beginning with black people. The U.S. cannot justify its existence as the policeman of the world any longer. I do not want to be a part of the American pie. The American pie means raping South Africa, beating Vietnam, beating South America, raping the Philippines, raping every country you’ve been in. I don’t want any of your blood money. I don’t want to be part of that system. We must question whether or not we want this country to continue being the wealthiest country in the world at the price of raping everybody else.”

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Author:Stokely Carmichael

“I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.”

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Author:Don McLean

“Because of an off-hand funny comment I made backstage at a concert years ago, a story circulated that the song has been a burden and even that I didnt sing it for a while. Thats completely false. I am very proud of American Pie and the many satellites that grow from it and revolve around it. For many years I carried my songs around and now they carry me around. I have always sung American Pie for my audience and would never think of disappointing them since it is they who have given me a wonderful life and untold affection for almost 30 years.”

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Author:Don McLean

“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.”

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Author:Don McLean

“Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.”

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Author:Don McLean

“Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn’t take one more step”

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Author:Don McLean

“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.”

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Author:James Berardinelli

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

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Author:Don McLean

“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”

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Author:Eugene Levy

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

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Author:Jason Biggs

“No longer will our penises remain flaccid and unused! From now on, we fight will for every man out there who isn't getting laid when he should be! This is our day! This is our time! And, by God, we're not gonna let history condemn us to celibacy! We will make a stand! We will succeed! We will get laid!”

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Author:Kevin Myers

“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.”

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Author:Sean William Scott

“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.”

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Author:Johnny Vegas

“I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'”

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Author:Guillaume Canet

“Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.”

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Author:Don McLean

“There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.”

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Author:Don McLean

“As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.”

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Author:Don McLean

“The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.”

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Author:Don McLean