Rogue Trader (film) Quotes

Rogue Trader (film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . Rogue Trader ended in 1970.

It features Janette Day as producer, Richard Hartley in charge of musical score, and Jean-François Robin as head of cinematography.

Rogue Trader (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Rogue Trader (film) is 101 minutes long. Rogue Trader (film) is distributed by Pathé.

The cast includes: Ewan McGregor as Nick Leeson, Anna Friel as Lisa Leeson, Tim McInnerny as Tony Hawes, Nigel Lindsay as Ron Baker, John Standing as Peter Baring, and Pip Torrens as Simon Jones.

Rogue Trader (film) Quotes

Ewan McGregor as Nick Leeson

• (Ewan McGregor) "Did you say we stop at Abu Dhabi?"
• (Anna Friel) "Yeah."
• (Ewan McGregor) "That's where they cut your hands off."
• (Anna Friel) "Oh, don't be ridiculous. They'd just stone you."
• (Ewan McGregor) "Poor old Barings, eh? That's what you get for hiring the wrong sort of person."

• (Peter Norris) "Now, we've had a lot of stick over funding. Brenda Granger tells me we're borrowing all over Japan to get the funds to you. People are beginning to talk, Nick."
• (Ewan McGregor) "I understand. I understand completely."
• (Peter Norris) "Excellent. Good man."
• (Ewan McGregor) "And that was it. That was apparently all he had to say on the subject of my enormous exposure that was causing so many ulcers throughout the Barings empire."

• (Ewan McGregor) "Despite rumours of secret bank accounts and hidden millions, I did not profit personally from my unlawful trading. To be absolutely honest, sometimes I wish I had."

• (George Seow) "Get in, you bastard."
• (Ewan McGregor) "What the f*** is that?"
• (George Seow) "Sex on wheels. It's a Porsche, moron. Get in."
• (Ewan McGregor) "I'll tell you what it is, it's disgusting."
• (George Seow) "I'll tell you what it is, it's a great big hard-on."
• (George Seow) "Gotta think of something to do with my bonus."
• (Ewan McGregor) "Well, you keep your eyes on the road, you flash git."

• (German Policeman) "Where is your man?"
• (Ewan McGregor) "I'm her man."

• (Ewan McGregor) "My team were young, they were hungry, and they didn't have a clue."
• (Ewan McGregor) "A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a specified amount of a commodity at a specified price at a future date."
• (Ewan McGregor) "All right, um -- it's like if I agree to sell you this cup of cappuccino, which I don't yet own, at 45 cents a month from now, if I can buy the cappuccino at say, 43 cents, I make a profit. If the price goes the other way, I have to pay more and I lose. It's timing, it's buying and selling at the right moment. Sometimes expresso might be the best deal, or salt or pepper."
• (George Seow) "So, we're running a supermarket, huh?"

• (Ewan McGregor) "Looking like s***, Nick. Looking like f***ing s***, mate."

• (Ewan McGregor) "I, Nicholas Leeson, have lost 50 million quid -- IN ONE DAY."

• (Ewan McGregor) "Oh, you've got to be joking."
• (Policeman) "No laughing matter. Outraging a lady's modesty, very serious crime in Singapore."

• (Ewan McGregor) "I'd never even heard of Barings before I started working for them. It's not like there's a Barings Bank in Watford."
• (Anna Friel) "Well, you're a big hero back in London, they think the sun shines out your arse."
• (Ewan McGregor) "Really? I was beginning to feel like one of those Japanese soldiers, you know, still stuck out in the jungle 20 years after the war."
• (Anna Friel) "What's it like here? They tell it's not safe to go out at night."
• (Ewan McGregor) "That's bollocks, the locals are great. Best thing about this place is it's not still full of pompous ex-colonials who think they were born to rule the world. That's what I love about Asia, anyone can make it, it doesn't matter which stupid school you went to."
• (Anna Friel) "When they told me I was going to Jakarta I had to look it up on a map."
• (Ewan McGregor) "As a matter of fact, so did I."

Tim McInnerny as Tony Hawes

• (Tim McInnerny) "You're down for 450, aren't you? Your bonus? Only a week to go."
• (Ewan McGregor) "Sorry?"
• (Tim McInnerny) "Have you thought about what you're going to do with it? Only a week to go."
• (Ewan McGregor) "Excuse me, I have an announcement to make. I know that some of you are worried about our exposure in the market and you're probably wondering about the identity of our mystery customer X. Well, the fact is he doesn't exist. We are the customer, Barings. And if you look properly at the five eights account, which is not a client account at all, it's an errors account, you'll realise that it's concealing losses in the region of 200 million pounds. No, I tell a lie, it's more like 230 after today."
• (Tim McInnerny) "Only a week to go. What are you going to do with all that money?"
• (Ewan McGregor) "Well, I'm not going to spend it on futures and options."

John Standing as Peter Baring

• (John Standing) "That was the Sultan of Brunei's office. They've decided not to proceed, they believe the risks are too great and the time too short in view of the need to have a rescue package in place by the time the markets open again in the Far East."
• (Pip Torrens) "Is there really no one else?"
• (Peter Norris) "We've tried everyone. It's hopeless."
• (John Standing) "I therefore have to inform you that Barings is insolvent and will go into immediate liquidation."

• (John Standing) "I've discovered it's not actually terribly difficult to make money in the securities business."

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