Blackmail quotes

“- Barry Grissom: You want the contract, you're signing a confidentiality agreement; it's gonna be bulletproof, and it's gonna be retroactive. Because Marty's too nice to say it, but with everything you know about this place and the clients here and the people who work here, it makes it a little weird when you come in and ask for 80 grand.
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael O'Keefe - Barry Grissom
George Clooney - Michael Clayton

- Dr. Evil: Mr. President, after I destroy Washington D.C. I will destroy another major city every hour on the hour. That is, unless, of course, you pay me one hundred billion dollars.
- The President: Dr. Evil, this is 1969! That amount of money doesn't even exist. That's like saying, "I want a kajillion bajillion dollars".
Mike Myers - Dr. Evil
Tim Robbins - The President

“Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. The ‘x’ makes it sound cool.”
John DiMaggio - Bender

“- General Broulard: Colonel Dax, are you trying to blackmail me?
- Colonel Dax: It's an ugly word, but you are in a difficult situation.”
Adolphe Menjou - Gen. George Broulard
Kirk Douglas - Col. Dax

“This is all a game... but it's their game. You play by their rules or they'll destroy you.”
David Ogden Stiers - Doc Stanton

“I want a one hundred dollar gift card deposited into my locker by noon tomorrow. Preferably to the Gap, but I'd also take Amazon.com, or Office Max. Actually, make it Office Max - I have my eye on a label maker. We did not have sex. I let you fondle my chest, and it was a glorious moment for you. Unmatched by anything you have heretofore...” (continue)(continue reading)

Emma Stone - Olive

“Just give us the disc and we'll give you your money back.”

Wendy Gazelle - Ruth Marx

“- Lester Burnham: Well, what do you say I throw in a little sexual harassment charge, to boot?
- Brad Dupree: Against who?
- Lester Burnham: Against you. Can you prove that you didn't offer to save my job if I let you blow me?
- Brad Dupree: Man, you are one twisted fuck.
- Lester Burnham: Nope; I'm just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.”
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham
Barry Del Sherman - Brad

“Blackmail isn't so pure nor so simple, and it brings a great deal of trouble to a great many people before it's through, and we know how to deal with it in our part of the world. And, sometimes, the blackmailer finds himself in jail at the end of it!”

C. Aubrey Smith - Colonel Julyan

“- Elliot Carver: Mr. Wallace, call the president. Tell him if he doesn't sign the bill lowering the cable rates, we will release the video of him with the cheerleader in the Chicago motel room.
- Tom Wallace: Inspired, sir.
- Elliot Carver: And after he signs the bill, release the tape anyway.
- Tom Wallace: Consider him slimed.”
Jonathan Pryce - Elliot Carver
Michael G. Wilson - Tom Wallace

“Without a hostage, there is no ransom. That's what ransom is. Those are the fucking rules.”
John Goodman - Walter Sobchak

“I want something embarassing! Something sexual! Little boys, midgets, that sort of thing! Cows! I don't give a goddamn!”

Sam Elliott - Kermit Newman

“- Kay Chandler: Do you know what happens when a member of Congress accuses you of harassment?
- Dutch Van Den Broeck: We'd get our names in the newspapers?
- Kay Chandler: That's close to blackmail!”
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Kay Chandler
Harrison Ford - Dutch Van Den Broeck

“- Oscar Madison: Hello there. What do you want?
- Little Boy: Five dollars.
- Oscar Madison: Why should I give you five dollars?
- Little Boy: Your friend said you would for telling you that he's locked in the bathroom.”
Walter Matthau - Oscar Madison
Myles Jeffrey - Little Boy

“- Erin Grant: If I come back tomorrow, can we talk more about my case?
- Congressman David Dilbeck: We can talk about anything you want, as long as you're naked.”
Demi Moore - Erin Grant
Burt Reynolds - Congressman David Dilbeck

“- John Dean: Can I ask you a question? How the hell do you have the temerity to blackmail the President of the United States?
- E. Howard Hunt: That's not the question, John. The question is: why is he paying?”
David Hyde Pierce - John Dean
Ed Harris - E. Howard Hunt

“- Gillian Bromley: It doesn't trouble you that blackmail is, in fact, against the law?
- Chief Insp. Cyril Willis: Policemen are constantly breaking the law. It's one of the many ways we have of upholding it.”
Lesley-Anne Down - Gillian Bromley
David Niven - Chief Insp. Cyril Willis

“- Violet Newstead: Blackmail, oh that sounds good! What could we get on him?
- Judy Bernly: A sex scandal! Take a picture of him in bed with a prositute.
- Doralee Rhodes: No, who'd care?
- Violet Newstead: Yeah, Hart would just buy up all the copies and then distribute them as Christmas cards.”

Lily Tomlin - Violet Newstead
Jane Seymour Fonda - Judy Bernly
Dolly Parton - Doralee Rhodes

“I have the child. Allow me to take you or he will die in your place. Your disbelief destroyed the faith of my congregation. Without them, I am nothing, so I was obliged to come. And now I must kill you.”

Tony Todd - The Candyman

“- Chartog: I am Chartog, guardian of the river. I know the way across, and I will tell you. You just have to... kiss me.
- Julie: Ugh... No way!
- Chartog: What's the matter, my precious? Don't you find me attractive?”

Terrence Scammell - Chartog
Julie Strain - Julie

“First, I will freeze the city, then I will hold Gotham ransom. Unless the city bows for my demands, it's winter forever in Gotham. The city fathers will have no choice but to give me the billions I need to complete my research, then I can find the cure.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Mr. Freeze

“- Alvin: Let me get this straight, the offer is a million dollars, or you kill me.
- Bristol: Correct.
- Alvin: You know, a million dollars ain't what it used to be, with taxes.”
Jamie Foxx - Alvin
Doug Hutchison - Bristol

“You can't fire me, you owe me money, and you better pay it or I'll go to the roof and turn this place into an insurance claim.”
Giovanni Ribisi - Moberg

“- Gin: I said this is called entrapment.
- Mac: No, actually it's called blackmail. Entrapment is what cops do to thieves.”
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Gin
Sir Sean Connery - Mac

"Dear Mr. and Ms. Livingston, we have kidnapped your son. Give us 100,000 dollars dollars or he dies. Signed, the Jews”. Are you kidding? Are you kidding? Who in their right mind is going to believe this note Morton? They’re the Jews, they’re going to want more than 100,000 dollars!
Swoosie Kurtz - Mrs. Livingston