“Glengarry Glen Ross” quotes

(1992)

Title Glengarry Glen Ross
Year 1992
Director James Foley
Genre Drama, Crime, Mystery

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Plot – Times are tough for a small estate agency in Chicago. The staff has an idea: the agent who will sell the most, at the end of the month will win an Eldorado Cadillac. The second one will win a set of kitchen knives, while for all the others the prize will be the layoff. Among the agents starts the hunting for the customer. Ricky Roma is the most clever agent and also this time he has found the best customers.

All actors – Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Pryce, Bruce Altman, Jude Ciccolella, Paul Butler, Lori Tan Chinn, Neal Jones, Barry Rohrssen, Leigh French, George Cheung, Murphy Dunne, Dana Lee, Julie Payne, Gregory Snegoff, , Skipp Lynch

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“- Blake: You see this watch? You see this watch?
- Dave Moss: Yeah.
- Blake: That watch costs more than your car. I made $970,000 last year. How much'd you make? You see, pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing.”
Alec Baldwin - Blake
Ed Harris - Dave Moss
[Tag:money, success]
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“Cop couldn't find his dick with two hands and a map.”
Ed Harris - Dave Moss
[Tag:genitalia, scorn]
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“They say that it was so hot in the city today, grown men were walking up to cops on street corners begging them to shoot them.”
Al Pacino - Ricky Roma
[Tag:heat, old age]
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“You do not know your job. That's what I'm saying. A man is his job and you are fucked at yours.”
Jack Lemmon - Shelley Levene
[Tag:failure, human nature, job]
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“- Dave Moss: He's the top man on the board so he doesn't have to sit here and listen to this shit?
- Williamson: That's correct! And as the hour is waning I suggest you those of you who are interested in a continuing job with this organization, get to work!”
Ed Harris - Dave Moss
Kevin Spacey - John Williamson
[Tag:honor, success, working]
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“Your life is your own. You have a contract with your wife? You have certain things you do jointly? Bond there. And there are other things, and those things are yours. And you needn't feel ashamed, you needn't feel that you're being untrue. Or that she would abandon you if she knew. This is your life.”
Al Pacino - Ricky Roma
[Tag:independence, self-confidence]
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“- George Aaronow: When I talk to the police I get nervous.
- Ricky Roma: Yes. You know who doesn't?
- George Aaronow: Who?
- Ricky Roma: Thieves.”
Alan Arkin - George Aaronow
Al Pacino - Ricky Roma
[Tag:nervousness, police, thieves]
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“There's an absolute morality? Maybe. And then what? If you think there is, go ahead, be that thing. Bad people go to hell? I don't think so. If you think that, act that way. A hell exists on earth? Yes. I won't live in it. That's me.”
Al Pacino - Ricky Roma
[Tag:behavior, choice, morality]
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“The rich getting richer, that's the law of the land.”
Ed Harris - Dave Moss
[Tag:inequality, law, wealth]
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“I subscribe to the law of contrary public opinion. If everyone thinks one thing, then I say bet the other way.”
Al Pacino - Ricky Roma
[Tag:public opinion]
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“Only one thing counts in this life: Get them to sign on the line which is dotted.”
Alec Baldwin - Blake
[Tag:business, purpose]
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“If you can't think on your feet, you oughta keep your mouth closed.”
Jack Lemmon - Shelley Levene
[Tag:intelligence, thinking]

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