Quotes from Movies

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

"Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned, but the second mouse, he struggled so hard that he eventually churned that cream into butter and he walked out.

Boiler Room (2000)

"A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close?

Steel Magnolias (1989)

“Smile. It enhances your face value.”

American Gangster (2007)

"The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room."

Office Space (1999)

"My only real motivation is not to be hassled--that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired."

Coming to America (1988)

"I started out mopping the floor just like you guys. But now...now I'm washing lettuce. Soon I'll be on fries; then the grill. And pretty soon, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in."

Big Night (1996)

"I am a businessman. I am anything I need to be at any time."

Up in the Air (2009)

"There's nothing cheap about loyalty."

Thank You For Smoking (2006)

Kid #3: "My Mommy says smoking kills." Naylor: "Oh, is your Mommy a doctor?" 

Kid #3: "No." Naylor: "A scientific researcher of some kind?" 

Kid #3: "No." Naylor: "Well, then she's hardly a credible expert, is she?" 

Goodfellas (1990)

"And when the cops, when they assigned a whole army to stop Jimmy, what'd he do? He made 'em partners."

Citizen Kane (1941)

“It’s no trick to make a lot of money, if what you want to do is make a lot of money.”

Rudy (1993)

"No one, and I mean no one, comes into our house and pushes us around."

Trading Places (1983)

 "You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. Are you with me?" 

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

"Only one thing counts in this world: Get them to sign on the line which is dotted."

Scarface (1983)

 "Don’t underestimate the other guy’s greed."

The Apartment (1960)

"Normally, it takes years to work your way up to the twenty-seventh floor. But it only takes 30 seconds to be out on the street again. You dig?"

Star Wars Episode IV (1977)

“No reward is worth this!" "Look, I ain't in this for your revolution, and I'm not in it for you, princess. I expect to be well paid. I'm in it for the money."

Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

"Do or do not, there is no try."

Cool Runnings (1993)

"The driver has to work harder than anyone. He's the first to show up, and the last to leave. When his buddies are all out drinking beer, he's up in his room studying pictures of turns."

Miracle (2004)

"You think you can win on talent alone? Gentlemen, you don't have enough talent to win on talent alone."

Pursuit Of Happyness (2006)

"You got a dream you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you can't do it." 

Finding Nemo (2003)

"Just keep swimming."

You've Got Mail (1998)

"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino."

Risky Business (1983)

“In a sluggish economy, never ever f--- with another man's livelihood.”

Caddyshack (1980)

“Buy, buy, buy! Oh, everyone's buying? Then sell, sell, sell!"

Working Girl (1988)

"Never burn bridges. Today's junior prick, tomorrow's senior partner!" 

The Godfather (1972)

“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.”

The Secret of My Success (1987)

"Everywhere I've been today there's always been something wrong--too young, too old, too short, too tall. Whatever the exception is, I can fix it. I can be older, I can be taller, I can be anything."

The Big Lebowski (1998)

"You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me.”

Any Given Sunday (1999)

“No intensity, no victory.” 

Animal House (1978)

"You f----d up. You trusted us."

Field of Dreams (1989)

 “If you build it, he will come.”

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” 

Jerry Maguire (1996)

“The key to this business is personal relationships.”

Wall Street (1987)

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind."