Cable car conductor: [as cable car careens down street] We're gonna crash! Save yourselves! Oh, my baby!
Blanche DuBois: Straight? What's 'straight'? A line can be straight, or a street. But the heart of a human being?
Sweeney Todd: [holding up one of his razors] At last! My arm is complete again!
Mrs. Lovett: Barker, his name was. Benjamin Barker. Sweeney Todd: What was his crime? Mrs. Lovett: Foolishness.
Donnie Azoff: I'll tell you what: I'm never eating at Benihana again. I don't care whose birthday it is.
Max Belfort: This is obscene! Jordan Belfort: I was obscene, in the real world. But who the fuck wanted to live there?
Jordan Belfort: Even though I own 85% of Steve Cocksucking Motherfucking Madden Shoes, the shares were in his fucking name!
Anita: [sobbing bitterly] Bernardo was right, If one of you was lying in the street bleeding, I'd walk by and spit on you.
Bud Fox: Sun-tzu: If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight, and if not split and reevaluate.
Carl Fox: Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.
Gordon Gekko: You're walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
Gordon Gekko: Ever wonder why fund managers can't beat the S&P 500? 'Cause they're sheep, and sheep get slaughtered.
[after Bud lost $100,000 on a 'dog' stock] Gordon Gekko: I guess your Dad isn't on the Board of Directors of *that* company, is he?
Gordon Gekko: This is the kid, calls me 59 days in a row, wants to be a player. There ought to be a picture of you in the dictionary under persistence kid.
Bud Fox: [after Gordon calls back and buys Bluestar] [Loudly] Bud Fox: Yeah! Woooo! I just bagged the elephant!
Investment Banker: Your boy really did his homework, Fox. And you'll have the shortest executive career since that Pope that got poisoned.
[last lines] Carl Fox: [Bud is being dropped off in front of the courthouse] We'll park the car and catch up with you. Bud Fox: Alright.
You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.
Every single person who has ever walked down the street with a FEED bag has purchased it. I think that's really relevant because it means that you have got to make that choice to spend that money on that product.
I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.
Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting.
