(Article is below...)

Boiler Room (film) Quotes

Boiler Room (film) is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Boiler Room completed its run in 1970.

It features Jennifer Todd as producer, The Angel in charge of musical score, and Enrique Chediak as head of cinematography.

Boiler Room (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Boiler Room (film) is 120 minutes long. Boiler Room (film) is distributed by New Line Cinema.

The cast includes: Ben Affleck as Jim Young, Giovanni Ribisi as Seth Davis, Nicky Katt as Greg Weinstein, Scott Caan as Richie, Vin Diesel as Chris Varick, Ron Rifkin as Judge Marty Davis, Daniel Serafini-Sauli as Broker, Tom Everett Scott as Michael Brantley, Jon Abrahams as Jeff, Jamie Kennedy as Adam, Peter Maloney as Dr. Jacobs, Nia Long as Abbie Halpert, Taylor Nichols as Harry Reynard, and Donna Mitchell as Mrs. Davis.

Boiler Room (film) Quotes

Giovanni Ribisi as Seth Davis

  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I was making good money with the casino but these guys were "macking" it hard, that's the level I wanted to be operating on so I drove out to Long Island, the office was a good hour from Wall Street, somebody forgot to tell the guys who worked there though, they looked and acted like they took the sixth train to Fulton Street every morning but it wasn't Wall Street it was exit fifty three on the Long Island Expressway, a good hour from the New York Stock Exchange, "Group interview my ass", it was like a Hitler youth rally in retrospect, the guy who pitched us, Jim Young was the head recruiter there between him and Michael honestly they can sell bubblegum at the lockjaw ward at Bellevue."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Why'd you put a max on his buy?"
  • (Nicky Katt) "You didn't tell him how it works?"
  • (Nicky Katt) "His trainee he doesn't need to know initial sell limits"
  • (Nicky Katt) "Make sure he shows you the ropes his too busy calling his bookie, f***ing Hebrews always looking out for themselves and not the trainees, the reason I capped him is in case if his a piker, so we're go ahead and front the money for this sale and if he doesn't send the check I'm the one holding the bag follow me?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Right"
  • (Vin Diesel) "Last month a kid a Jim's team wrote a million dollar ticket the stock was down three and a half points by settlement the kid took a quarter of a million dollar hit, do you know how much that hurts? Besides the first sale is what's appetite, if his a whale, which looks like he is"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Right"
  • (Vin Diesel) "So put him a daily measureable rip"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "What's a "rip"?"
  • (Vin Diesel) "A "rip",is a commission that's why we work here we make huge rips, a two dollar rip which is unheard of anywhere on Wall Street, which means we're walking away with two dollars of every share we sell, its real money and opportunity"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "How does Michael afford that?"
  • (Vin Diesel) "Couldn't tell you"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Ok"
  • (Vin Diesel) "If his doing it, his making money from it, and the point is service your client right and he'll be back for more show him a three percentage return and he'll trust you to watch his kids for the weekend"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I need to talk to you"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "What is it?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I want out of the firm"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "Great leave I don't care what you do anymore I'll tell you this, you coming here is unacceptable to me, what do you want me to do? You want to cost me my judgeship?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "No"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "I can't have any connection to you"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I want to get out the firm like you told me to but I just need your help"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "What do you need my help for? You're getting out, fine whatever I don't care if you stay there or not, just gets out of here"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "There was an investment I wanted to talk to you about"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "You've got to be kidding me"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "You could make a lot of money we could go in on a couple big trades that JT Marlin wants you to invest in and when the next IPO comes out --"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "Stop, are you asking me to go in on a stock scam with you? Are you out of your f***ing mind?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Do you remember this day?"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "Yes of course I bought you that bike"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Do you remember what happened a month after that?"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "What do you want from me? Yes, I remember when I broke your leg"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "My f***ing leg was broken I'm sorry I couldn't get the job you wanted me to have, who gives a s***? Because I am good at what I do and the casino was a f***ing business and I ran it pretty f***ing well and to think I closed it for you and then I went after this job because I thought it was what you wanted me to be doing and I tried to make the changes you wanted me to make and I'm JT now and I'm just asking you for this one thing, just to help your son"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "I can't, I'm sorry"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I went to the Med Patent office and there isn't one, its card board there's nothing, there's no employees there's no research and development I found out how Michael is making his money, we're selling stock for companies that don't exist"
  • (Unnamed) "Hi Mr. Davis, it's Ron from The Daily News, how you doing this morning?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "It's Davis and I'm not interested"
  • (Unnamed) "ok I'm sorry to have bothered you, have a nice day"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "wait a minute, that's your pitch? You consider that a sales call?"
  • (Unnamed) "well, umm"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "you know I get a call from you every Saturday and it's always the same half ass attempt, if you guys want to "close" me you should "sell" me."
  • (Unnamed) "alright"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "alright, start again."
  • (Unnamed) "ok, it's Ron The Daily News, how you doing this morning?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "s***ty, what'd you want?"
  • (Unnamed) "it's not what "I" want, it's what "you" want"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "alright, now we're talking, what are you selling me?"
  • (Unnamed) "we're offering you a subscription to The Daily News at a substantially reduced price, we're trying to reach out to people who've never had home delivery before"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "so, your basically everybody that already have a subscription is getting f***ed on this one?"
  • (Unnamed) "yeah, I guess so"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "ok I can handle that, ok tell me, why should I buy your paper? Why shouldn't I get The Times? or The Voice?"
  • (Unnamed) "Well, The Village Voice is free, if you want it, you should certainly pick it up, but The Daily News offers you something no other paper can: a real taste of New York, we have the best features, more photographs than any other papers in New York and we have the most reliable delivery in the city, now what'd you think?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "you know what I think? I think that was a sales call, good job buddy"
  • (Unnamed) "so, are you going to buy a subscription?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "No I already get The Times."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "No, no deal, you take my father out the back door and you bring him home, he has nothing to do with this case I swear to God, if his name ends up in one newspaper I do not testify and I mean that, for me it'd be worth going to jail for"
  • (FBI Agent David Drew) "Are you serious?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "What'd you think?"
  • (FBI Agent David Drew) "alright, before we get ahead of ourselves, what are you offering?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I'm going to hand you this case on a silver f***ing platter, I know everything you don't, I know how it all works, I know how Michael makes his money, I know how he hides it, I know who he goes in with, I even know where he moves if you guys get too close, I know everything"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "so who do you live with?"
  • (Nia Long) "do you mean is this little black girl taking care of her grandmother because her mother is a crack head?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "yeah exactly, I thought it was "smack" though."
  • (Nia Long) "your right."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "You've got to get ahold of that edge, it's kind of sharp."
  • (Nia Long) "I know, it's just that I get so much s*** at JT that sometimes I just get into that mode to get them off of me you know?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "yeah, I was going to ask you because it doesn't look like the ideal working environment for a black woman."
  • (Nia Long) "no, it isn't, but how many secretaries do you know that make eighty grand a year?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "one"
  • (Nia Long) "exactly"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I wished my dad could've stepped into the casino just once he would've had to be impressed, four employees an organized payroll and a huge client list"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Its strange to think how that knock changed everything, everything, hey don't get me wrong here, I don't believe in fate, i believe in odds"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Looking back the casino was the most legitimate business I had running, I looked my customers in the eye and I provided a service they wanted, now I don't even look my customers in the eye and I push them something they never asked for"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I ran casino. I've got to figure what I'm going to do next because I'm not a lottery winner. I tried "slinging crack rock" and I never had a jump shot, I've got to find a job."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I was living in Kew Gardens Hills running my "biz" giving the Queens College kids to do something in between classes I was doing well."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I feel bad about the way things ended the last time we talked, I found a way to get you your money back, and I just need you to call me back"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "What do you want from me?"
  • (FBI Agent David Drew) "I want you to testify."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "What are you offering?"
  • (FBI Agent David Drew) "Full immunity."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "What about my father?"
  • (FBI Agent David Drew) "He won't do any time."
  • (Ron Rifkin) "I haven't done anything illegal."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Then what's the deal?"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "The deal is I lose my judgeship just going along for the ride."
  • (FBI Agent David Drew) "I have nothing to do with that."
  • (Ron Rifkin) "What's that supposed to mean? You're going to release the tape to the press? Make your case much more glamorous with the involvement of a federal judge?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "No, no, deal, you take my father out the back door and you bring him home, he has nothing to do with case. I swear to God if his name ends up in one newspaper I do not testify, and I mean that, for me, it'd be worth going to jail for."
  • (FBI Agent David Drew) "Are you serious?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "What do you think?"
  • (FBI Agent David Drew) "Alright, before we get ahead of ourselves, what are you offering?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I'm going to hand you this case on a "silver f***ing platter", I know everything you don't, I know how it all works, I know how Michael makes his money, I know how he hides it, I know who he goes in with, I even know where he moves if you guys get too close, I know everything. So, tell me what happens now?"
  • (FBI Agent David Drew) "You go back to work tomorrow like nothing happened, for one day I need your client book and your whole C drive backed up on a floppy and we're going to have hold you overnight."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I dropped out"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "Do you want to tell me why?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I gave it a year and it just wasn't for me"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "I see so that means you've been lying to us for six months "school's fine dad, my grades are good dad", alright let's just leave that for a second, so you drop out, that means you haven't been getting you student loan checks, how are you paying the rent every month?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I'm running a business, earning a living"
  • (Ron Rifkin) ""Earning a living?"
  • (Ron Rifkin) ""Is this what you call "earning a living"?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I'm plagued by "what ifs?"these days, what if Greg hadn't come over that night, what if I hadn't forgot my bag? or seen Michael walk into the other building that day? what if i had skipped over Harry's card? what are the chances? what are the odds?"
  • (Unnamed) "Take me off your list."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Fine, fine. I'm gonna take you off my list of successful people today."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "You know what I hate? Is getting past the secretaries it doesn't matter if you're a broker, it's still a sales call and they f***ing know that, I'm going to open a firm"
  • (Nicky Katt) ",Wait your opening things now? Kid just passed his test and thinks he knows the whole thing, what's wrong with you? You haven't even popped your "cherry" yet"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I originally I got in for the cash but getting my dad's respect is what kept me there, I had to adapt to this new world, I didn't know any of these guys but what I did know is that they had all the money in the world and not a clue what to do with it"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Do you know what Bridge Financing is?"
  • (Nia Long) "No"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Basically it's a way to raise capital for a company that's trying to go public they get money from outside investors they're the "bridge" and it's perfectly legal as long as there's no connection between the investors and the firm but Michael's fronting his friends as the investors on every IPO we do"
  • (Nia Long) "That's why all the names on the contracts are the same"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Right, and he has us push it all on the open market for him, we're basically Michael's shares and that's where the two dollar "rips" come in, he can afford to pay us that much and it's worth it for him because he literally depends on us to create the market for him there's no other firm selling this s*** it's all artificial demand and as soon as we sell off his position there's no need to maintain the inflated price anymore we stop pushing it"
  • (Nia Long) "And then it crashes"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "right, but how does that really affect me? I'm just selling stock there's nothing wrong with that, so I know now how Michael makes his own money and I know I'm not working at Goldman Sachs but we already know that, so how does this really change anything?"
  • (Nia Long) "I don't know, you tell me"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I don't know why the hell I walked in there. Things were going well for me I had passed the Series Seven and was closing my forty accounts for Greg, I didn't want to go in but a part of me had to know what Michael was doing there the week before, why would they be walking in the building next door? The place was empty, I should've just let it go, my first thought was we were moving to nicer offices, yeah, nice thought I realized it was a quick out for Michael if things got out of hand, it didn't take me long to close the forty accounts I was closing five a day sometimes six, just killing it. Greg certainly make it easy though but I was focused I was about to start making the serious dough I was about to be on my own."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "What do you mean, you're gonna pass. Alan, the only people making money passing are NFL quarterbacks and I don't see a number on your back."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "You got a call from an associate broker of mine and I wanted to know if you enjoyed the information we sent you?"
  • (Taylor Nichols) "What information?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "If you get as much mail as I do you'd probably brush it to the side but more importantly we made a commitment to get back to you. I'm presenting you with a business opportunity that I think you'll find very interesting"
  • (Taylor Nichols) "I'm not really in the market right now."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Tell me, are you married? Are you happy?"
  • (Taylor Nichols) "Actually I've been married for ten years."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "That's great, six years for me, are you playing the market at all?"
  • (Taylor Nichols) "I don't know about "playing" but I do own some blue chips that were wedding gifts from our friends in New York."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Well, we have an explosive situation going on right now pharmaceutical company Farrowtech has a drug called Paratin in the third stage of FDA approval."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "What's the deal?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "That's a good question and this is the best part: it helps premature babies develop properly."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "That sounds like good drug."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "It is, tell me what have those blue chips done for you since you got married?"
  • (Taylor Nichols) "Not that much really."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "We deal with stocks that really "move." I'd like to show you what I mean on a relatively small investment."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "I can't really buy anything right now because my wife and I are getting ready to buy a house and we're trying to save every last penny."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Look, I don't care how much stock you pick up, I just want you to test me out. I want you to judge you on the percentages I show you obviously if I show you thirty or forty percent you're going to be pretty excited about my next idea right?"
  • (Taylor Nichols) "Yeah"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Of course you would you'd be handing out my business cards wouldn't you? Do this, pick up a hundred shares it's the absolute firm minimum if I show you three or four points on the trade it's not going to make you rich, on the same token if the stock doesn't go anywhere you're not going to be standing outside your store with a cup in your hand."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "That's true."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "The true is I can sell you a lot more stock than just a hundred shares and feel completely comfortable about the trade but I'm asking you to start small just to prove what I can do for you."
  • (Taylor Nichols) "Alright let's try it."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I had a very strong work ethic. The problem was my ethics in work."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Do you want to talk to me?"
  • (Nia Long) "I don't know what to tell you, just think about this: if you pull this IPO deal off and I'm associated with you what do you think is going to happen to me?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "They're not going to be able to prove anything."
  • (Nia Long) "Who says they have to? I'm going to lose my job unless I put some distance between us."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Who cares about that? I'm going to take care of you, you are the one real thing in my life right now."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I read this article a while back, that said that Microsoft employs more millionaire secretary's that any other company in the world. They took stock options over Christmas bonuses. It was a good move. I remember there was this picture, of one of the groundskeepers next to his Ferrari. Blew my mind. you see s*** like that, and it just plants seeds, makes you think its possible, even easy. And then you turn on the TV, and there's just more of it. The $87 Million lottery winner, that kid actor that just made 20 million o his last movie, that internet stock that shot through the roof, you could have made millions if you had just gotten in early, and that's exactly what I wanted to do: get in. I didn't want to be an innovator any more, i just wanted to make the quick and easy buck, i just wanted in. The Notorious BIG said it best: "Either you're slingin' crack-rock, or you've got a wicked jump-shot." Nobody wants to work for it anymore. There's no honor in taking that after school job at Mickey Dee's, honor's in the dollar, kid. So I went the white boy way of slinging crack-rock: I became a stock broker."

Ben Affleck as Jim Young

  • (Ben Affleck) "You Want details? Fine. I drive a Ferrari, 355 Cabriolet, What's up? I have a ridiculous house in the South Fork. I have every toy you could possibly imagine. And best of all kids, I am liquid."
  • (Ben Affleck) "There's an important phrase that we use here, and think it's time that you all learned it. Act as if. You understand what that means? Act as if you are the f***ing President of this firm. Act as if you got a 9" cock. Okay? Act as if."
  • (Ben Affleck) "I want to talk to you guys about appearance because most of you dress like s***. I don't know what your financial situation is and I don't want to know, but you've got to get yourself at least one descent suit because we have a minimum level of aesthetic professionalism we have to maintain. In three months you can outfit your entire closet but for now just get something to hold you over, secondly, it's time to get your series 7 books, don't get nervous if you study you'll pass and then you begin trading as an FCC licensed broker, then you're a f***ing millionaire and it's just that simple, I need three hundred bucks from each of you for the books and it will be returned if and when you pass the exam and I need that tomorrow that is all."
  • (Ben Affleck) "Anybody who tells you money is the root of all evil doesn't f***ing have any."
  • (Ben Affleck) "God damn it you f***ing guys you passed the Series Seven over a month ago. Seth's the only one opening the necessary forty accounts for his team leader, when I was a junior broker I did it in twenty six days. You're not sending out press packets anymore. None of this "Debbie the Time Life operator" bulls***, so get on the phone, it's time to get to work, get off your ass, motion creates emotion, I remember one time this guy call me up and wanted to sell me stock, so I let him. I got every rebuttal out of this guy, I kept him on the phone for an hour and a half, towards the end I started asking him "buying" questions like "what's the firm minimum?" that's a buying question, right there that guy's got to take me down. It's not like I asked him "what's your 800 number?" that's a "f*** off" question. I was giving him a run and he blew it, the answer to a question like that is "zero", you don't like the idea don't pick a single share, but this puss is telling me "a hundred shares" no. Wrong answer. you have to be closing all the time and be aggressive, learn how to push, ask them questions, ask them rhetorical questions ask them anything, just get a "yes" out of them, "if your drowning and I throw you a life jacket would you grab it?", "yes", good, pick up two hundred shares I won't let you down", ask them how'd they like to see thirty, forty percent returns, what are they going to say? "no, f*** you I don't want to see those returns", if you can't learn how to close you better start thinking about another career and I'm deadly serious about that, dead f***ing serious, and have your rebuttals ready a guy says "call me tomorrow", bulls***, somebody tells you they got money problems about buying two hundred shares is lying to you, do you know what I'd say to that? "Tell me you don't like my firm, tell me you don't like my idea, and tell me you don't like my f***ing neck tie, but don't tell me you can't put together twenty five hundred bucks, that's it I'm done."

Nicky Katt as Greg Weinstein

  • (Nicky Katt) "Hang up. Hang up the phone."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Thank you. That's nice for you to do that for me."
  • (Nicky Katt) "First of all, there's gonna be a lot of these regardless of how good you are but you happen to suck big fat ass rhinoceros dick."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Well, thank you. That's confidence inspiring."
  • (Nicky Katt) "These are the client cards, these are our leads every one of these people buy stock, your job is to call them and get them interested in the firm, you're not actually selling stock but you're selling them a "dream" so get them "wet", a month from now a senior broker will call them back with an idea,"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "wait so who are these people?"
  • (Nicky Katt) "they're average clients, forty five years old from the Midwest one hundred fifty thousand dollar income one million net, has a local broker but loves a hot shot New Yorker who sounds good on the phone, the cards not going to tell you any of that, it only has their name, address, and occupation so you got to feel them out, the truth is, it doesn't even matter where the DOW is right now, everybody wants a piece of the market, I can anyone, anytime, anywhere in the country, just give me a phone number, once you qualify the guy you send him a press packet it'll all be real easy and get you comfortable on the phone which is key, this entire business revolves around the phone, "play the numbers", this is a contact sport meaning the more people you contact the better you'll do a good broker makes over seven hundred calls a day"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "wait what's the phone bill like here?"
  • (Nicky Katt) "this month was approaching four hundred thousand dollars, even though you're not selling stock I want you to memorize the quota we have here, did you see the movie Glengarry Glen Ross?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Yeah"
  • (Nicky Katt) "You remember A.B.C.?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Yeah, Always.Be. Closing"
  • (Nicky Katt) "that's right,Always.Be. Closing "telling's not selling", that's the attitude you want to have, the second rule you have to remember as a trainee "don't write wood" a lot of trainee are anxious to get off the phone that they steam roll the guy into getting him the press packet so they can hang up, then I call back a month later and say "hi you spoke to a junior associate of mine" and the guy says "I'm not interested", that's a s***ty lead, that's f***ing wood, the info we send is bulls***, the most important of the call is that is telling them you that one great idea and that a senior broker is going to call them back in a month we don't want our clients to think we're pitching them something we read in the Wall Street Journal, if the guy wants to buy stock right then, you want to go into each call expecting just that, if someone wants a recommendation you put the guy on hold, stand up and yell "Reco" at the top of your lungs, first senior broker gets on the phone, he gets the sale. I have this friend at another firm, he hands this book to all his new trainees, it's called "Rebuttal Book, it has a rebuttal for any excuse like "my wife won't let me", "I'm not in the market right now", "send me a prospects, that's all stuff you're going to have to learn later, the most important thing you need to know right now is, you can be whoever you want, change your last name, say you're the vice president who cares? Do whatever you got to do to get the guy on the line"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Wait how could I do something like that? Isn't there a compliance officer here?"
  • (Nicky Katt) "Everybody does that s***, even on Wall Street are you talking about John over there?"
  • (Nicky Katt) "the guy's a f***ing chimp, the only "compliance" work his doing is making sure my lunch is still hot when it gets here, his only here because the FCC requires it, it's the easiest job in the world."
  • (Nicky Katt) "look I think his actually masturbating right now"
  • (Nicky Katt) "As you all know there's going to be a lot of heat coming down from what Farrowtech did yesterday so be smart on the phone, calm people down, the stock's dropped eighty six percent from yesterday's close. I don't want people dumping their shares"
  • (Nicky Katt) "Don't you have a canoli you can stick in your mouth?"
  • (Vin Diesel) "Don't you have a menorah you could shove up your ass?"
  • (Nicky Katt) "Now there's two rules you have to remember as a trainee, number one, we don't pitch the bitch here."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "What?"
  • (Nicky Katt) "We don't sell stock to women. I don't care who it is, we don't do it. Nancy Sinatra calls, you tell her you're sorry. They're a constant pain in the ass and you're never going to hear the end of it alright? They're going to call you every f***ing day wanting to know why the stock is dropping and God forbid the stock should go up, you're going to hear from them every f***ing 15 minutes. It's just not worth it, don't pitch the bitch."
  • (Nicky Katt) "I hope this is better than the last batch of s*** you gave me. Produced more wood than Ron Jeremy. I don't want you to yell, "Reco." anymore. Know what you should yell? "Timber." Yeah, Mr. f***in' wood. I hear you f***in' makin' your calls. It's bulls***, all right? I mean if you want them off the phone so bad, why don't you just hang up? You should get them excited. You know, excited? They should beg for a broker on the first call."

Ron Rifkin as Judge Marty Davis

  • (Ron Rifkin) "How come I've never heard of this firm?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "It's a smaller firm, there are probably a million others you've never heard of"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "The reason I ask is I thought you'd join a firm like Goldman Sachs or something of that stature"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "The reason the larger houses don't like to hire kids straight out of college unless you went to an ivy league school or if you want to do cash flow analysis for the next fifteen years they usually want you to work outside their firm for a few years and get a good sense of the market but most brokers start out at little firms like JT Marlin"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "good, So all you have to do now is close the casino"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "Hi Seth how are you?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Dad?"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "Yeah can I change your mind about doing this IPO scheme?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "No I've already gone in with somebody"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "Then I'll help you out with this"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "You're going to do it with me?"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "No I can't do that but I can at least make sure you don't get caught, I know somebody over at Ellis Proud he can talk to you about it so why don't you come over the house tomorrow night?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Thank you dad I'm so glad you called"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "when I came up to you behind that car, it was the hardest thing I ever had to bear because I wanted to make your pain disappear, I don't even know how to describe the feeling I had at the time, I just want you to know one thing: not a single day of my life goes by that I don't think about that moment, I don't think about being back there just to have one more chance to make your pain disappear, I am more sorry than you'll ever know"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "I'm not your best friend. That's your mother's racket. I'm your father. I tell you when you screw up. What did you think I was gonna do? Pat you on the back for this casino idea? Tell you what a great entrepreneur you are? So what do you want me to do, Seth? I mean, my God, if I would have called my father to meet me for a cup of coffee to talk about my screw-ups, he probably would have laughed. We didn't have nice little chats about why I was a bad boy. I got smacked. And I didn't do it again. Much simpler."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Look, you know, I'm just trying to restore what's left of our relationship. I mean --"
  • (Ron Rifkin) "Relationship? What the f*** are you talking about, relationship? What, are we dating? I'm not your girlfriend, Seth. I'm your father. Clean up you life, make an honest living, and then you and I can talk like normal people, all right?"

Nia Long as Abbie Halpert

  • (Nia Long) "Why are you calling me here?"
  • (Agent Etkins) "Time's running out I need to know what his doing"
  • (Nia Long) "I'm getting tired of this you have nothing on me I'm going to hang up this phone now"
  • (Agent Etkins) "You're putting all the deals through, your signature is on every sell ticket, so go ahead, and hang up"

Vin Diesel as Chris Varick

  • (Vin Diesel) "Hi Dr. Jacobs this is Chris marlin over at JT Marlin"
  • (Peter Maloney) "Marlin?"
  • (Vin Diesel) "Right, his my father, so my associate tells me you're interested in one of our stocks?"
  • (Peter Maloney) "Yes, MSC sounds like it might be interesting"
  • (Vin Diesel) "Might be? "Might be" doesn't sell stock at the rate MSC is going for, we're talking a very high volume here"
  • (Peter Maloney) "Well, I still have to run it by my people"
  • (Vin Diesel) "That's great doc if you want to miss another opportunity and watch your colleagues get rich doing clinical trials that don't buy a share and hang up the phone"
  • (Peter Maloney) "Hold on I didn't say that I just want to talk about this more"
  • (Vin Diesel) "Honestly doc I don't have the time this stock is blowing up right now the whole firm is going nuts, hold on let me open the door to my office"
  • (Vin Diesel) "See that doc? That's my trading floor now I have a million calls to make to a million doctors who are in the no, I can't walk you through this I'm sorry"
  • (Peter Maloney) "Ok, let's do this"
  • (Vin Diesel) "Since you're a new account I can't go any higher than two thousand shares I'm sorry"
  • (Peter Maloney) "Two thousand shares? Are you nuts? That's way beyond what I was thinking, Jesus. I'm curious why can't you sell me any more than that?"
  • (Vin Diesel) "We'd like to establish a relationship with our clients on something small before we get to the more serious trades, let me show you couple percentage points then we can talk about doing future business"
  • (Peter Maloney) "That sounds good, give me the two thousand shares"
  • (Vin Diesel) "Done, I promise we'll swing for fences on the next one, let me put my secretary on and she'll take down your info, do you want that confirmation sent to your office or your mansion? It was a pleasure doing business"
  • (Vin Diesel) "Hey, kid, get the f*** outa here."
  • (Vin Diesel) "You know how hard I worked to get where I am?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "You need forget about that it doesn't mean s***, right now this moment is what you should be thinking about, what are you going to do in the next fifteen minutes they're make sure we never trade another share of stock for the rest of our lives but we can do something"
  • (Vin Diesel) "What's that?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Harry, my client I need a senior broker to sign a sell ticket so he can take his shares and dump them on the open market, and make his money back, what's the difference? Do one thing right here just sign it"
  • (Vin Diesel) "f***ing guy's probably got more rooms than his ever been in"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I was wondering, do you ever wonder how we make the rips we do? That we make rips that pay out more than any other major firm?"
  • (Vin Diesel) "You're kidding me right? That's the wrong question to be asking, the only thing you should be worried about tonight is how you're going to get laid"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I'm serious, FCC regulations state that maximum rip allowed is five percent allowed and we're making four times that"
  • (Vin Diesel) "You just passed your Series Seven and now you're an inspector? Aren't you happy with the way things are going?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Yeah I am, I'm just curious, you're not curious?"
  • (Vin Diesel) "Not at all, I like being a millionaire, you will too"
  • (Vin Diesel) "What's this about? You ok?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I need you to sign a sell ticket for a client of mine"
  • (Vin Diesel) "f*** Greg, let's go deal with it and talk to Michael"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Wait a minute Chris, I got arrested last night"
  • (Vin Diesel) "What?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "The FBI arrested me"
  • (Vin Diesel) "The FBI? Why the f*** would the FBI arrest you?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Because of my involvement in this firm"
  • (Vin Diesel) "Your involvement in the firm? What the f*** does that mean?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Come on Chris you know what that means"
  • (Vin Diesel) "No, I don't know what that means, what the f*** did you tell them?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "They knew everything man, they had photographs and tape recorded conversations, they brought my father in, there was nothing I could do"
  • (Vin Diesel) "What did you do?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "Chris, the FBI is going to raid this place in twenty minutes."
  • (Vin Diesel) "What the f*** are you talking about? f*** Seth."
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "come on man, I asked you for months about s*** going on here and you told me to shut the f*** up and get ready to be a millionaire"
  • (Vin Diesel) "That's right "shut the f*** up", didn't you learn anything?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "I learned how to f*** people out their money my client, Harry Reynard just lost his life savings, and he wasn't a whale, he was just a poor schmuck and I took him, I did everything J.T Marlin taught me to do and I made up his mind for him"
  • (Vin Diesel) "What do you want me to tell you? That's what we do here"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "We lie, we're liars"
  • (Vin Diesel) "Who they coming for?"
  • (Giovanni Ribisi) "They're coming for everybody, everything"

Donna Mitchell as Mrs. Davis

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Tom Everett Scott as Michael Brantley

  • (Tom Everett Scott) "I just wanted to let you guys know the pikers at the N.A.S.T. are finally off our ass, J.T Marlin once again has unlimated trading authorization I told you guys you can't keep a good man down, we're super stars now J.P. Morgan just faxed over their congratulations, it said "welcome to the club", this means those teams headed up by Todd and Richie who are good enough to give up their rep numbers, they can stop cold calling and start trading again, just to show you how appreciative I am there's something extra, I want you to go up to suite 418, I hand picked them myself, we're players now boys SOLUTE."
  • (Tom Everett Scott) "I want to congratulate all of you on a huge month, for those of you that are not yet convinced, these were the top dogs of this month, Jim Young, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars, Chris Varick two hundred and five thousand dollars, and Greg Weinstein, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, this month is going to be even bigger, in fact it's going to be the biggest month we ever had, there's a new issue I wanted to talk to you about, it's called Med Patent, they just designed the world's first retractable syringe, that means doctors and nurses will never again have to worry about infection from dirty needles, this is not going to be an alternative in the medical world, this is going to be the standard, now I know we're here to make money, but if we can do something good like this, it's all the better, I want you to go out and buy yourselves a new car, go buy yourselves a house, go into debt, you are going to make a million dollars inside of six months, we're going to be taking a class trip tonight, so call your moms and tell them "not to wait up"."

Scott Caan as Richie

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Jamie Kennedy as Adam

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Daniel Serafini-Sauli as Broker

  • (Daniel Serafini-Sauli) "I know you're not standing on your front porch with a bag of money waiting for me to call you. But I'm not some 18-year-old selling a cure for AIDS. I'm 46 years old, I have 22 years market experience, I know this business. So pick up your skirt, grab your balls, and lets go make some money"

Add or Update Quotes

If you have a quote to add or change and want to let us know, please fill in the form below. Include the time in the film/video if possible so we can find it.




Additional Film and TV Quotes

Win, Lose or Draw Quotes | Play Your Cards Right Quotes | Bodyguards (TV series) Quotes | The In-Laws (1979 film) Quotes | King of New York Quotes | 10 (film) Quotes | A Thin Line Between Love and Hate Quotes | Millennium Actress Quotes | Alice (1988 film) Quotes | Savior (film) Quotes | Ozark Jubilee Quotes | The Singing Detective Quotes | Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned Quotes | Dead Ringers (film) Quotes | Death Wish II Quotes | Collateral (film) Quotes | Night Court Quotes | Twilight (1998 film) Quotes | Muppets Tonight Quotes | The Wicked Lady Quotes | Inca Mummy Girl Quotes | Spies Like Us Quotes | Dance with a Stranger Quotes | Judgment Night (film) Quotes | Liquid Sky Quotes |