Wall Street 1987 quotes, page 3

Carl Fox (Martin Sheen)

I don't go to sleep with no whore and I don't wake up with no whore. That's how I live with myself. I don't know how you do it.

Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen)

I don't know. I guess I realized that I'm just Bud Fox... and as much as I wanted to be Gordon Gekko, I'll always be Bud Fox.

Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)

I don't like losses, sport. Nothing ruins my day more than losses. Now you do good, you get perks, lots and lots of perks.

Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen)

I gotta live in Manhattan to be a player. There's no nobility in poverty anymore.

I leave Bud Fox in the canyons of Wall Street, just another ant, one of millions of ants…. We’re all absorbed in this system of capitalism…. You join the collective unconscious.

Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)

I loved it at 40, it's an insult at 50. They're analysts, they don't know preferred stock from livestock, alright? When it hits south, we raise the sperm count on the deal.

Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)

I want zip-locked mouths on the Bluestar deal, or I'm gonna personally come down there and rip out their **** throats.

I wanted to explore the new Wall Street. When I was writing Scarface in Miami, there was so much coke around and so many lunatics, and I met so many kids from Wall Street who were millionaires. I thought older men were rich, but here were these kids, 25 or 28 or 35 years old, with millions of dollars playing the markets all over the world around the clock. My father would have been shocked by the new electronics that allowed it…. Dad was a stockbroker on Wall Street when there was more integrity and class.

I’m ambivalent. I like Gekko, which is partly why Michael Douglas did so well…. Gekko is despicable but kinda fun too.

Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)

I'm afraid pal, unless your father is on the board of directors of another company, you and I are going to have a very tough time doing business together.

Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)

I'm gonna make you rich, Bud Fox. Yeah, rich enough, you can afford a girl like Darien. This is your wake-up call, pal. Go to work.

Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen)

I'm tapped out Marv. American Express got a hit man lookin' for me.

Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)

I'm up to my ass with more nuts than a fruitcake.

It’s funny to read articles about Gordon Gekko as if he exists…. If you really listen to Gekko’s speech, half of it makes sense…. But it’s the excess, losing moderation, that destroys all…. There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator, greed motivating evolution…. But there’s a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.

Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)

It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.