Money quotes

“Nothing is impossible, Mr. Angier. What you want is simply expensive.”
David Bowie - Nikola Tesla

“- Ben Campbell: I need this money. You have no idea what I went through to get this...
- Cole Williams: I know, kid, but you're gonna figure out how to get everything you want in this life, 'cause you're smart.”
Jim Sturgess - Ben Campbell
Laurence Fishburne - Cole Williams

“Great money does not a great human make.”
John Carroll Lynch - Artist

“- Bill Rorish: This is a brutal layoff. And all because they couldn't program Wednesday nights.
- Paul Moore: You can make it less brutal by knocking a million or so off your salary... Bad joke, I'm sorry.”
Jack Nicholson - Bill Rorish
Peter Hackes - Paul Moore

“Never trust a guy who fumbles for the check, you know who wants to get the check, gets it.”
Woody Allen - David Dobel

“I'm Joe. I pay a day's pay for a day's work. I pay on Fridays. I'll give you a little something today but your first real payday is next Friday. We start about six in the morning, quit at one or two and if we work through dinner or get rained out, I pay for the whole day. Does that sound fair enough?”
Nicolas Cage - Joe

“- Rylan Bursar: Return the money, Centauri.
- Centauri: Return the money? Are you delirious? Do you know how long it took to invent the games? To merchandise them? To get them in the stores by Christmas?”
John O'Leary - Rylan Bursar
Robert Preston - Centauri

“- Francis MacMillan: Did you exchange your jewels and furs for food at the supermarket?
- Claudia Draper: Now isn't that silly?
- Francis MacMillan: Well, did you?
- Claudia Draper: No.
- Francis MacMillan: Well, then how'd you pay for your food? I assume you didn't live on caviar.”

Robert Webber - Francis MacMillan
Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper

“We think everybody knows Hollywood people. And everybody knows they'd shoot in Stalingrad with Pol Pot directing if it would sell tickets.”
Ben Affleck - Tony Mendez

- Barney Caine: You trade lives and human dignity for profit.
- Adam Steiffel: "Money, not morality, is the principal commerce of civilized nations". Thomas Jefferson, 200 years ago. That is the philosophy that built this nation.
George C. Scott - Barney Caine
Marlon Brando - Adam Steiffel

“- Danny: Wow! My own dream come true.
- Farley Wink: Yeah, yeah. But remember: 10% of that dream is mine.”
Scott Bakula - Danny
Frank Welker - Farley Wink

“- Hercules: I'm tired of spending time and money on somebody like you.
- Venus: Yeah, your time, but my money.”
Henry Victor - Hercules
Leila Hyams - Venus

“It's an interesting setup, Mr. Ross. It is the oldest confidence game on the books. The Spanish Prisoner. Fellow says him and his sister, wealthy refugees, left a fortune in the home country. He got out, girl and the money stuck in Spain. Here is her most beautiful portrait. And he needs money to get her and the fortune out. Man who supplies the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed O'Neill - FBI Team Leader

“- Joby: Hi Bob. Working hard, or hardly working?
- Bob: Pays the same either way.”
David Thewlis - Joby
Lucas Hedges - Bob

“- Randy: There's the ten-thousand dollars... well, aren't you gonna count it?
- Mr. Burmeister: Nah.
- Randy: You trust me?
- Mr. Burmeister: No, but I kill people.”
Matt Dillon - Randy
Michael Douglas - Mr. Burmeister

“Just because they showed up to collect the money, is no guarantee that they'll show up to do the work... and if they do, I can't pay for it!”
Tom Hanks - Walter Fielding

“- Luke Fuchs: You're lookin' at one of the finest automobiles on this lot. Y'know, I rebuilt that engine with my own two hands.
- Mickey: Does it run?
- Luke Fuchs: Does it run? Like a dream.
- Mickey: Well, old man... for $2400, it better run like a wet dream.”
Jack Warden - Luke Fuchs
Michael Talbott - Mickey

“My old lady couldn't afford to send me to college. So I got a job. I was washing dishes, dumping trash... all that sort of shit.”
Eric Freeman - Ricky Caldwell

“- Jack Brown: Why me? Of all the stuff in the store, why did you pick me?
- Eric Bates: You made me laugh. I wanted a friend who made me laugh.
- Jack Brown: So of all the toys in the store you wanted a friend. If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.”

Richard Pryor - Jack Brown
Scott Schwartz - Eric Bates

- Shale: Did you ever look up the word "mercenary"? It's someone who "works merely for money".
- Joey: Everybody works for money.
- Shale: It's not the money that bothers me; it's the "merely".
Tom Berenger - Jonathan Shale
Raymond Cruz - Joey Six

“- Nora Charles: You know, that sounds like an interesting case. Why don't you take it?
- Nick Charles: I haven't the time. I'm much too busy seeing that you don't lose any of the money I married you for.”
Myrna Loy - Nora Charles
William Powell - Nick Charles

“As long as you know that four quarters equals a simolean, you'll survive.”
Jim Cummings - Pete

“- Connor: What the fuck are you doing?
- Rocco: ...I'll tip her.”

Sean Patrick Flanery - Connor MacManus
David Della Rocco - Rocco

“I'm never gonna get married. Not ever. Even if you paid me a hundred and fifty dollars.”

Ari Meyers - Debbie

“- Burke Bennett: This is the high life, Sheldon. You gotta get used to this. Pretty soon you're gonna be pissin' on hundred dollar bills just to see the look on Franklin's face!
- Sheldon Mopes: I don't think I could ever do that. I have too much respect for what that man accomplished.”
Danny DeVito - Burke Bennett
Edward Norton - Sheldon Mopes