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Gekko: Well, I appreciate the opportunity you're giving me Mr. Cromwell as the single largest shareholder in Teldar Paper, to speak. Well, ladies and gentlemen we're not here to indulge in fantasy but in political and economic reality. America, America has become a second-rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare proportions. Now, in the days of the free market, when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the stockholder. The Carnegies, the Mellons, the men that built this great industrial empire, made sure of it because it was their money at stake. Today, management has no stake in the company! All together, these men sitting up here own less than three percent of the company. And where does Mr. Cromwell put his million-dollar salary? Not in Teldar stock. He owns less than one percent. You own the company. That's right - you, the stockholder. And you are all being royally screwed over by these, these bureaucrats, with their, their steak lunches, their hunting and fishing trips, their, their corporate jets and golden parachutes. Cromwell: This is an outrage! You're out of line Gekko! Gekko: Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents. The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book, you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pre-tax profit of 12 billion dollars. [applause] Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that 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. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much. Note: The bolded portion is ranked #57 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. – Wall Street Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Bud: You fucking used me! Gekko: Well, you're walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place. Bud: But why do you need to wreck this company... Gekko: Because it's WRECKABLE, all right?! I took another look at it and I changed my mind. – Wall Street Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Bud: Tell me, Gordon, when does it all end, huh? How many yachts can you water-ski behind? How much is enough? Gekko: It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a Zero Sum game – somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred – from one perception to another. Like magic. This painting here? I bought it ten years ago for sixty thousand dollars. I could sell it today for six hundred. The illusion has become real, and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it. Capitalism at its finest. Bud: How much is enough, Gordon? Gekko: The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons – and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now, you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you, Buddy? It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around, pal, I've still got a lot to teach you. – Wall Street Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Carl: You told the truth and gave the money back. All things considered in this cockamamie world, you're shooting par. Mrs. Fox: You helped saved the airline, and the airline people are gonna remember you for it. Carl: That's right. If I were you, I'd think about the job at Bluestar that Wildman offered you. Bud: Dad, I'm going to jail and you know it. Carl: Yeah, well, maybe that's the price, son. It's gonna be hard on you, that's for sure. But maybe in some kind of screwed-up way, it's the best thing that could've happened to you. Stop going for the easy buck and produce something with your life. Create instead of living off the buying and selling of others. – Wall Street Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Mrs. Mulch: Growbag's right! The slugs are back! PC Macintosh: [surveying the damage left by the Were-Rabbit] Look, this flippin' vegetable competition causes nothing but trouble every year. Man 1: Here we go. Macintosh: [surveying the damage left by the Were-Rabbit] If you ask me- Man 2: Get on with you! Macintosh: No, I'll tell ya. If you ask me, this was arson. [The townspeople gasp.] Man 3: Arson? Macintosh: Aye. Someone arsin' around! That's right! One of you lot! A man! – Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Wallace: Oh, it's hopeless! I'll never fix this flippin' machine. Me mind's just a rabbit-y mush. Oh, Gromit! I don't wanna be a giant rabbit! [sobbing] Hutch the Rabbit: Aww, the bounce is gone from his bungee. – Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Civilian 1: Please, sir... [holds up vegetable] kiss my baby! Victor: Another time, perhaps. Civilian 2: [holds up vegetable] Kiss my potato! Victor: Not now. Mr. Growbag: Kiss my artichoke! [holds up his vegetable] Victor: Look, just- Tottington: Victor. Victor: Campanula! Tottington: Victor, I have to know. Did it suffer? Victor: Of course not, my dear. [sotto] Not yet, anyway. – Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
[Martian ships disintegrate the human military.] General Mann: That skeleton beam must be what they used to wipe out the French cities! Forrester: It neutralizes mesons somehow! They're the atomic glue holding matter together! Cut across their lines of magnetic force, and any object will simply cease to exist! Take my word for it, General, this type of defense is useless against that kind of power! You'd better let Washington know...fast! – The War of the Worlds Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
[Col. Heffner's last words before being disintegrated.] Col. Heffner: Everybody out of here! Everybody out! The Air Force will take care of these babies now! Dr. Forrester, get out of here! Everybody out of here! Everybody out—! – The War of the Worlds Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Forrester: Did that mob grab the trucks ahead of me? There were a lot of Pacific Tech people with those trucks! Did you see them? Man with briefcase: I don't know anything about other trucks! There's been fighting on all the streets! Forrester: The school bus; the girl was driving. Did they get that, too? Man with briefcase: If they saw it, they took it; they'll grab anything on wheels! You can't buy a ride for love or money!! – The War of the Worlds Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Mary-Anne: Take care of our kids. Ray: Mary-Anne, you've got nothing to worry about. – War of the Worlds Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Ray: [after a lightning flash] It's okay, you're fine. Rachel: IT HIT RIGHT BEHIND OUR HOUSE! Ray: Yeah... uh... it's not gonna hit there again, okay? Because lightning doesn't strike twice in the same- [lightning strikes the same place] HOLY SHIT! – War of the Worlds Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Robbie: Is it the terrorists? Ray: No... this came from someplace else. Robbie: What, you mean like Europe? Ray: (screaming) NO, ROBBIE! NOT LIKE EUROPE! – War of the Worlds Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
[Robbie, Ray and Rachel are fleeing the tripods along the highway] Robbie: Where are we going?! Ray: We gotta go! We got to be the only working car around here. I'm not stopping until we are clear. Robbie: Clear of WHAT?!?! Ray: We gotta go! Robbie: WHAT IS GOING ON?!?! Ray: You saw! We're under ATTACK!! [Rachel begins to cry and scream hysterically] Robbie: By WHO? Who is attacking us?!?! Ray: Rachel... Rachel you've got to keep it down Rachel! [Rachel, still crying, starts to hyperventilate] Ray: Rachel! SHUT UP RACHEL! I can't think!! Robbie: YOU ARE FREAKING HER OUT!! Ray: Well, LOOK, I'M DRIVING!!! DO SOMETHING!!! [Robbie turns to Rachel and shows her an arm formation] Robbie: Okay, put 'em up, Rache. Make the arms. [Rachel copies the formation, still panicking. Robbie holds her arms] This space right here, this is yours. This belongs to you, right? Rachel: [taking deep breaths, trying to calm herself] Yes... Robbie: [reassuring her] You're safe in your space. Rachel: I'm safe in my space... Robbie: You're safe in your space. Nothing is going to happen to you in your space. Rachel: I'm really scared... Robbie: I'm gonna go to the front seat to talk to Dad. Rachel: No... Robbie: I will be two feet away, okay. Will you hold my hand? Rachel: Yes. Robbie: Are you gonna be okay? Rachel: Yes. – War of the Worlds Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Ray: Ketchup.. mustard.. Tabasco sauce.. vinaigrette.. This is good, Robbie, I told you to pack food. What the hell is this? Robbie: That's all that was in your kitchen. – War of the Worlds Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
When they're hiding in the house of their mother Rachel: I'm allergic to peanut butter. Ray: Since when? Rachel: Birth. – War of the Worlds Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Rachel: If everything's okay, why do we have to sleep in the basement? We have perfectly good beds. Ray: It's, like a slumber-party. [looks around] This is a nice basement... Rachel: I wanna sleep in my bed. I got back problems. Ray: Uh, well, you know how on the Weather Channel, when they say a tornado's coming and they tell you to go to the basement for safety? It's like that. Rachel: There's gonna be tornadoes? Ray: Okay, Rachel, no more talking. [Robbie puts his cap on Rachel's head.] Rachel: Could you be a little nicer to me, God? – War of the Worlds Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Reporter: Hey, were you on that plane? [Ray shakes his head] Reporter: Too bad. Would have made a great story. – War of the Worlds Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Mr. Liggett: Now there seems to be a lot of confusion on this next question: asexual reproduction. Could someone tell me please who first suggested the idea of reproduction without sex? David: Ah-heh. [whispers something to a classmate] [overhearing, Jennifer starts to laugh] Mr. Liggett: Miss Mack! What is so amusing? Jennifer: I... [Jennifer breaks up into laughter again and turns to look at David, who puts on a show of mock innocence] Mr. Liggett: Alright, Lightman. Maybe you could tell us who first suggested the idea of reproduction without sex. David: Umm... Your wife? [the class erupts into laughter] Mr. Liggett: [pointing to the door] Get out, Lightman. Get out. – WarGames Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
David: Is this a game or is it real? Joshua/WOPR: What's the difference? David: Oh, wow. – WarGames Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Stephen Falken: Now, children, come on over here. I'm going to tell you a bedtime story. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. Once upon a time, there lived a magnificent race of animals that dominated the world through age after age. They ran, they swam, and they fought and they flew, until suddenly, quite recently, they disappeared. Nature just gave up and started again. We weren't even apes then. We were just these smart little rodents hiding in the rocks. And when we go, nature will start again. With the bees, probably. Nature knows when to give up, David. David: I'm not giving up. If Joshua tricks them into launching an attack, it'll be your fault. Stephen Falken: My fault? The whole point was to practice nuclear war without destroying ourselves; to get the computer to learn from mistakes we could not afford to make. Except, that I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson. David: What's that? Stephen Falken: Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up. Jennifer: What kind of a lesson is that? Stephen Falken: Did you ever play tic-tac-toe? Jennifer: Yeah, of course. Stephen Falken: But you don't anymore. Jennifer: No. Stephen Falken: Why? Jennifer: Because it's a boring game. It's always a tie. Stephen Falken: Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless! But back in the war room, they believe you can win a nuclear war. That there can be "acceptable losses." – WarGames Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
David: I think I saw one. [runs ahead for a moment and stops] What kind of an asshole lives on an island and he doesn't even have a boat? Jennifer: Maybe we can swim for it. How far do you think it is? David: No. It's uh, two, three miles at least. Maybe more. Jennifer: Well, what do you say? Let's go for it! David: No. Jennifer: [starts to remove her shoes] Come on! David: No! [pause] I can't swim. Jennifer: You can't swim? David: No, I can't, okay, Wonder Woman? I can't swim! Jennifer: Well, what kind of an asshole grows up in Seattle and doesn't even know how to swim? David: I never got around to it, okay? I always thought there was gonna be plenty of time! Jennifer: Sorry. David: I wish I didn't know about any of this! I wish I was like everybody else in the world, and tomorrow it would just be over. There wouldn't be any time to be sorry... about anything. Oh, Jesus! I really wanted to learn how to swim! I swear to God I did. – WarGames Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
Stephen Falken: [looking at screens] How far's he gone? McKittrick: Well, the President about ready to order a counter-strike. That's what we're recommending he do. Stephen Falken: It's a bluff, John, call it off. McKittrick: No, it's not a bluff. It's real. Stephen Falken: [raising his voice from stairs] Hello, General Beringer! Stephen Falken! General Beringer: [standing] Mr. Falken you picked a hell of a day for a visit! Stephen Falken: Uh, uh, General, what you see on these screens up here is a fantasy; a computer-enhanced hallucination. Those blips are not real missiles. They're phantoms. McKittrick: Jack, there's nothing to indicate a simulation at all. Everything is working perfectly! Stephen Falken: But does it make any sense? General Beringer: Does what make any sense? Stephen Falken: [points to the screens] That! General Beringer: Look, I don't have time for a conversation right now. Stephen Falken: General, are you prepared to destroy the enemy? General Beringer: You betcha! Stephen Falken: Do you think they know that? General Beringer: I believe we've made that clear enough. Stephen Falken: Then don't! Tell the President to ride out the attack. Colonel Conley: Sir, they need a decision. Stephen Falken: General, do you really believe that the enemy would attack without provocation, using so many missiles, bombers, and subs so that we would have no choice but to totally annihilate them? Female Airman First Class: [on loudspeaker] One minute and thirty seconds to impact. Stephen Falken: General, you are listening to a machine! Do the world a favor and don't act like one. – WarGames Movie Quote	added 5 years ago
McKittrick: General, the machine has locked us out. It's sending random numbers to the silos. Pat Healy: Codes. To launch the missiles. General Beringer: Just unplug the goddamn thing! Jesus Christ! McKittrick: That won't work, General. It would interpret a shutdown as the destruction of NORAD. The computers in the silos would carry out their last instructions. They'd launch. General Beringer: Can't we disarm the missiles? Pat Healy: Over a thousand of them? There's no time. At this rate it will hit the launch codes in... 5.3 minutes. General Beringer: Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks. McKittrick: I don't have to take that, you pig-eyed sack of shit. General Beringer: Oh, I was hoping for something a little better than that from you, sir. A man of your education. Officer: Sir, it's the President. [McKittrick looks at Beringer] McKittrick: What are you going to tell him? General Beringer: That I'm ordering our bombers back to fail-safe; we might have to go through this thing after all. [talks into the phone] Yes, sir. – WarGames Movie Quote	added 5 years ago

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