Greed quotes

“The humans have forgotten the gods, destroyed the Earth, and for what? Parking lots? Shopping malls? Greed had burned a hole in their hearts that will never be filled! They will never have enough!”
Luke Goss - Prince Nuada

“What's Conover? No more than a symbol of the greed and cruelty and lust for power that have set men at each other's throats down through the centuries and the struggle will go on, Watson, for a pearl, kingdom, perhaps even world dominion... till the greed and cruelty have burned out of every last one of us. And when that time comes, perhaps even...” (continue)(continue reading)

Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

- Carl Fox: "There came into Egypt a Pharaoh who did not know".
- Gordon Gekko: I beg your pardon, is that a proverb?
- Carl Fox: No, a prophecy. The rich have been doing it to the poor since the beginning of time. The only difference between the Pyramids and the Empire State Building is the Egyptians didn't allow unions. I know what this guy is... (continue)(continue reading)
Martin Sheen - Carl Fox
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“We have only one thing to give up. Our dominion. We don't own the world. We're not kings yet. Not gods. Can we give that up? Too precious, all that control? Too tempting, being a god?”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Ethan Powell

“If you don't work, you don't get paid no money. And I like money.”
Garry Cooper - Peter

“What we need to do is to put an end to all this barbarity. Put an end to all this violence - find a solution for it. By inventing a new society. A society where the relationships among men is governed by respect and the absence of profit. Thus a society without greed.”
Riz Ahmed - Hermann Kermit Warm

“- Val Cannon: Don't be greedy.
- Sherry Peatty: I'm not greedy! Val, I'm in love with you and if that's being greedy, then, I'm the biggest glutton that ever walked the earth.
- Val Cannon: Don't make it sounds so ominous. It sounds like you're gonna eat me alive.
- Sherry Peatty: I may just do that.”
Vince Edwards - Val Cannon
Marie Windsor - Sherry Peatty

“- Johnny Clay: You'll have money. Plenty of money. George will have and he'll blow it all on you, probably buy himself a five cent cigar.
- Sherry Peatty: You don't know me very well, Johnny. I wouldn't think of letting George throw his money away on cigars.”
Sterling Hayden - Johnny Clay
Marie Windsor - Sherry Peatty

“- Sergio: Hey, Cash. How much longer I gotta wait for my money?
- Cassius Green: God made this land for all of us. Greedy people like you want to hog it to yourself, and your family.
- Sergio: Me and my family?
- Cassius Green: Yeah.
- Sergio: Cassius, I'm your fuckin' uncle.”
Terry Crews - Sergio
LaKeith Stanfield - Cassius Green

“I think you're the only girl in the world who can stand on a stage with a spotlight in her eye and still see a diamond inside a man's pocket.”

Jane Russell - Dorothy Shaw

“There's a whole lotta money out there. All I gotta do is put my name on it.”
Ice Cube - Bucum

“- Arabian Prince: Contact Jamal and tell him he can have the dolls, but I want the girls!
- Servant: But Jamal specifically wanted the girls to be returned.
- Arabian Prince: I do not take orders from Jamal! I am doing him a favor, and as payment, I keep the girls!”
Nancy Cartwright - Arabian Prince

“- Charlie Mortdecai: What is in it for me, as they say?
- Inspector Martland: Do it for Queen and country.
- Charlie Mortdecai: No! ... All right, Queen and country, travel and living expenses, reasonable overhead.
- Inspector Martland: Done!”

Johnny Depp - Mortdecai
Ewan McGregor - Martland

“Shhh. Money.”
Groucho Marx - Gordon Miller

“Every woman wants new shoes.”
Cher - Mrs. Flax

“I want unlimited things. I want everything. A real love. A real house. A real thing to do every day. I'd rather die, if I don't get it.”
Mark Wahlberg - Jim Bennett

“- Nash: For Emil it's personal but for you it's all about greed.
- Pavlou: For a hundred million it's a lot more than that.”

Pierce Brosnan - Nash
Benno Fürmann - Pavlou

“- Maître D': Today we have, for appetizers moules marinières, pâté de foie gras, beluga caviar, eggs Benedictine, tart de poireaux, that's leek tart, frogs' legs amandine, or oeufs de caille Richard Shepherd, c’est à dire, little quails' eggs on a bed of puréed mushroom. It's very delicate, very subtle.
- Mr. Creosote: I'll have the lot.”
John Marwood Cleese - Maître D'
Terry Jones - Mr. Creosote

“- Rafayel: How many more worlds have to burn before you're satisfied, Gabriel?
- Gabriel: Just the one. This one. I'm not greedy.”
William Prael - Rafayel
Christopher Walken - Gabriel

“- Governor Ratcliffe: Wiggins, why do you think those insolent heathens attacked us?
- Wiggins: Because we invaded their land and cut down their trees and dug up their earth?
- Governor Ratcliffe: It's the gold! They have it and they don't want us to take it from them. Well, I'll just have to take it by force then, won't I?”
David Ogden Stiers - Governor Ratcliffe
David Ogden Stiers - Wiggins

“- Eddie: What the hell are you doing?
- Deacon: 17 million 4 ways I'm to greedy for that, Eddie.”
John Hawkes - Eddie
Peter Greene - Deacon

“To me the company was about making life better, but to Ratchet, it was making money that came first. I became old-fashioned, and outmoded. Ratchet beat me, and he's gonna beat you.”
Mel Brooks - Bigweld

“- John: I'm not gonna crawl on my belly in front of those miserable union rats.
- Elsie: Is that what this is about? Is this about your pride?
- John: It's about what's best for Coalwood. If this mine doesn't produce, then the town dies. Think the union gives a damn about that? They're nothin' but a bunch of greedy sons of bitches.”
Chris Cooper - John Hickam
Natalie Canerday - Elsie Hickam

“You are weak and greedy and selfish, and you are the root of every problem. You are why people betray one another. You are why there is nowhere safe or happy anymore.”

Elisabeth Moss - Catherine

“- Malkina: Greed really takes you to the edge, doesn't it?
- Reiner: That's not what greed does. That's what greed is.”
Cameron Diaz - Malkina
Javier Bardem - Reiner