“The Boost” quotes

“- Linda Brown: People here are a little strange.
- Lenny Brown: Talented people usually area little strange... they were allon something; money's the real drug around here, okay?”
Sean Young - Linda Brown
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“I'm not gonna sit here and watch you kill yourself!”

Sean Young - Linda Brown

“- Max Sherman: In all my life, I never treated anyone like I treated you! You were poor; I made you rich. You were drowning; I gave you a yacht! And then you stolefrom me. After I treated you like a son. Twenty thousand dollars!
- Lenny Brown: You want another check? I'll write you another check right now.
- Max Sherman: A check is no damn good....” (continue)(continue reading)
Steven Hill - Max Sherman
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“Selling's more important to me than money. Because every time I sell, it means somebody believes in me.”

James Woods - Lenny Brown

“- Lenny Brown: Mark, I don't sell drugs. I'm in real estate.
- Mark: I don't sell drugs, either. I'm a screenwriter. But until the ship comes in, you gotta cover the waterfront.”

James Woods - Lenny Brown
Marc Poppel - Mark

“- Lenny Brown: I'm making money so fast over at Max's, they can't keep track of it. Everybody in town thinks I'm a firecracker. And even after all this, my own wife still thinks I'm a bum!
- Linda Brown: I think you're a genius. I just don't want you to feel like you're on a treadmill... having to make more and more money to pay for things we...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Woods - Lenny Brown
Sean Young - Linda Brown

- Linda Brown: Maybe we're going too fast. We should just take this a step at a time.
- Lenny Brown: To hell with that. You don't stepthrough life. "Teacher, may I?" It goes too quick for that. You gotta leap through life!
Sean Young - Linda Brown
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“That's the problem with the younger generation: no sentiment.”
Steven Hill - Max Sherman

“- Max Sherman: I live where the money is. You don't think this NYC crowd would have anything to do with me unless I could move millions of bucks around, do you...? Does your wife work?
- Lenny Brown: Yeah, she has a great job.
- Max Sherman: Lucky for you.”
Steven Hill - Max Sherman
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“I wonder what they're all doing tonight. The poor people of the world, I mean.”
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“- Ned: I worry about money, just like everybody else.
- Lenny Brown: But you got some backstops. You start falling down that well, you got some slats across to catch yourself, right? You got your professor-father. You got an education. You got the Financial Journal. You can't fall too far. My old man's an ex-printer on disability! My mother is a...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Rothman - Ned
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“I got you a $40,000 car and a $2 mutt. Go figure.”

James Woods - Lenny Brown

“Faith may move mountains; this stuff makes them fly.”
John Kapelos - Joel Miller