Margin Call (film) Quotes

Margin Call (film) is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . Margin Call completed its run in 1970.

It features Joe Jenckes, Robert Ogden Barnum, Corey Moosa, Michael Benaroya, Neal Dodson, and Zachary Quinto as producer, Nathan Larson in charge of musical score, and Frank DeMarco as head of cinematography.

Margin Call (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Margin Call (film) is 109 minutes long. Margin Call (film) is distributed by Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions, and Benaroya Pictures.

The cast includes: Jeremy Irons as John Tuld, Paul Bettany as Will Emerson, Penn Badgley as Seth Bregman, Zachary Quinto as Peter Sullivan, Kevin Spacey as Sam Rogers, Stanley Tucci as Eric Dale, Simon Baker as Jared Cohen, Demi Moore as Sarah Robertson, and Mary McDonnell as Mary Rogers.

Margin Call (film) Quotes

Stanley Tucci as Eric Dale

• (Stanley Tucci) "I run risk management -- it just doesn't seem like a natural place to start cutting."

Jeremy Irons as John Tuld

• (Jeremy Irons) "Maybe you could tell me what is going on. And please, speak as you might to a young child. Or a golden retriever. It wasn't brains that brought me here; I assure you that."

• (Jeremy Irons) "I don't get any of this stuff."

• (Jeremy Irons) "So, what you're telling me, is that the music is about to stop, and we're going to be left holding the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in the history of capitalism."
• (Zachary Quinto) "Sir, I not sure that I would put it that way, but let me clarify using your analogy. What this model shows is the music, so to speak, just slowing. If the music were to stop, as you put it, then this model wouldn't even be close to that scenario. It would be considerably worse."
• (Jeremy Irons) "Let me tell you something, Mr. Sullivan. Do you care to know why I'm in this chair with you all? I mean, why I earn the big bucks."
• (Zachary Quinto) "Yes."
• (Jeremy Irons) "I'm here for one reason and one reason alone. I'm here to guess what the music might do a week, a month, a year from now. That's it. Nothing more. And standing here tonight, I'm afraid that I don't hear; a; thing. Just -- silence."

Simon Baker as Jared Cohen

• (Simon Baker) "Sometimes in an acute situation such as this, often, what is right can take on multiple interpretations."

Penn Badgley as Seth Bregman

• (Penn Badgley) "Will, did you really make two and a half million last year?"
• (Paul Bettany) "Yeah, sure."
• (Penn Badgley) "How did you spend it all?"
• (Paul Bettany) "It goes quite quickly. You know, you learn to spend what's in your pocket."
• (Zachary Quinto) "Two and a half million goes quickly?"
• (Paul Bettany) "All right, let's see. So the taxman takes half up front, so you're left with one and a quarter. My mortgage takes another 300 grand. I send 150 home for my parents, you know, keep 'em going. So what's that?"
• (Zachary Quinto) "800?"
• (Zachary Quinto) "All right, 800. Spent 150 on a car. About 75 on restaurants. Probably 50 on clothes. I put 400 away for a rainy day."
• (Penn Badgley) "That's smart."
• (Paul Bettany) "Yeah, as it turns out, 'cause it looks like the storm's coming."
• (Zachary Quinto) "You still got 125."
• (Paul Bettany) "Yeah, well I did spend 76,520 dollars on hookers, booze and dancers. But mainly hookers."
• (Zachary Quinto) "76,5?"
• (Paul Bettany) "I was a little shocked initially, but then I realized I could claim most of it back as entertainment. It's true."

• (Penn Badgley) "Who is that guy?"
• (Paul Bettany) "Sam's boss."
• (Penn Badgley) "He looks like he's fifteen years old."
• (Paul Bettany) "He's forty."
• (Penn Badgley) "Yeah, how does that happen?"
• (Paul Bettany) "Oh, it happens all the time. Except to me."

• (Penn Badgley) "Just like that? Jesus Christ. Are they going to do it right here?"
• (Paul Bettany) "You guys ever been through this before?"
• (Penn Badgley) "No."
• (Paul Bettany) "It's best to keep your head down and ignore it. Keep your head down and go back to work."

Demi Moore as Sarah Robertson

• (Demi Moore) "We were wrong."
• (Simon Baker) "You mean you were wrong."
• (Kevin Spacey) "I'm heading for the conference room."
• (Simon Baker) "I want you to hear this."
• (Kevin Spacey) "I don't want to hear this. How do you think I've stuck around this place so long?"

• (Demi Moore) "I didn't think they were going to be able to get you back here."
• (Stanley Tucci) "Well, they told me they were going to drag me through hell on everything for the next two years; my options, my healthcare. Or I could come back here and make, uh, 176,471 dollars an hour to sit quietly in this room. Didn't seem like much of a choice."
• (Demi Moore) "It never is."

Paul Bettany as Will Emerson

• (Paul Bettany) "Well, that was f***ing hideous."
• (Kevin Spacey) "It's gonna get worse before it gets better."

• (Paul Bettany) "Listen, nothing I'm gonna say is going to make you feel any better. It's just going to suck for a while and then you'll be fine."

• (Paul Bettany) "Jesus, Seth. Listen, if you really wanna do this with your life you have to believe you're necessary and you are. People wanna live like this in their cars and big f***in' houses they can't even pay for, then you're necessary. The only reason that they all get to continue living like kings is cause we got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off and then the whole world gets really f***in' fair really f***in' quickly and nobody actually wants that. They say they do but they don't. They want what we have to give them but they also wanna, you know, play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from. Well, thats more hypocrisy than I'm willing to swallow, so f*** em. f*** normal people. You know, the funny thing is, tomorrow if all of this goes tits up they're gonna crucify us for being too reckless but if we're wrong, and everything gets back on track? Well then, the same people are gonna laugh till they piss their pants cause we're gonna all look like the biggest pussies God ever let through the door."
• (Penn Badgley) "Do you think we're gonna be wrong?"
• (Paul Bettany) "No, they're all f***ed."

• (Paul Bettany) "You know, the feeling that people experience when they stand on the edge like this isn't the fear of falling; it's the fear that they might jump"

• (Paul Bettany) "I hate Brooklyn."

Kevin Spacey as Sam Rogers

• (Kevin Spacey) "Thank you all for coming in a little early this morning. I know yesterday was pretty bad and I wish I could say that today is gonna be less so, but that isn't gonna be the case. Now I'm supposed to read this statement to you all here, but why don't you just read it on your own time and I'll just tell you what the f*** is going on here. I've been here all night -- meeting with the Executive Committee. And the decision has been made to unwind a considerable position of the firm's holdings in several key asset classes. The crux of it is -- in the firms thinking, the party's over as of this morning. There's gonna be considerable turmoil in the Markets for the foreseeable future. And they believe it is better that this turmoil begin with us. As a result, the firm has decided to liquidate its majority position of fixed income MBS -- today. These are your packets, you will see what accounts you're responsible for, today. I'm sure it hasn't taken you long to understand the implications of this sale, on your relationships with your counter parties and as a result -- on your careers. I have expressed this reality to the Executive Committee, and they understand. As a result, if you achieve a 93% sale of your assets, you will receive a 1.4 million dollar one-off bonus. If the floor as a whole achieves a 93% sale, you will get an additional 1.3 million dollars apiece. For those of you who've never been through this before, this is what the beginning of a fire sale looks like. I cannot begin to tell you how important the first hour and half is gonna be. I want you to hit every bite you can find: dealers, brokers, clients, your mother if she's buying. And -- no swaps, it's outgoing only, today. Obviously this is not going down the way that any of us would have hoped, but -- the ground is shifting below our feet, and apparently, there's no other way out."

• (Kevin Spacey) "How old are you?"
• (Simon Baker) "43."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Jesus."
• (Simon Baker) "This is bizarre. It's like a -- dream."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Oh, I don't know. Seems like we actually may have just woken up."

Mary McDonnell as Mary Rogers

• (Mary McDonnell) "Sam, you don't live here any more. Are you alright? You don't look so good."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Yeah, it's been a rough day all the way around."
• (Mary McDonnell) "I know, Sammie called."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Is he alright?"
• (Mary McDonnell) "They got hammered, but they got out alive."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Oh, good."
• (Mary McDonnell) "Well I'm going go back inside and go back to bed. The alarm is on, so don't try to break in. Take care of yourself."

Zachary Quinto as Peter Sullivan

• (Zachary Quinto) "Look at these people. Wandering around with absolutely no idea what's about to happen."

• (Zachary Quinto) "Are you sure it's the only or right thing to do?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "For who?"
• (Zachary Quinto) "I'm not sure."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Neither am I."

• (Zachary Quinto) "Aren't you tired?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "A little -- but I don't work as hard as you do."
• (Zachary Quinto) "That's not true."
• (Kevin Spacey) "No it is."

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