Wealth quotes

“- Ki-taek: They are rich but still nice.
- Chung-sook, Ki-taek's wife: They are nice because they are rich.”
Kang-ho Song - Kim Ki-taek
Hye-jin Jang - Kim Chung-sook

“- Anastasia Steele: When's the last time you went shopping?
- Christian Grey: Houston. A week ago.
- Anastasia Steele: What'd you buy?
- Christian Grey: An airline.”

Dakota Johnson - Anastasia Steele
Jamie Dornan - Christian Grey

“Once upon a time, on the north shore of Long Island, not far from New York, there was a very very large mansion, almost a castle, where there lived a family by the name of Larrabee. There were servants inside the mansion, and servants outside the mansion; boatmen to tend the boats, and six crews of gardeners: two for the solarium, the rest for...” (continue)(continue reading)
Julia Ormond - Sabrina Fairchild

“- Ki-taek: Rich people are naive. No resentments. No creases on them.
- Chung-sook, Ki-taek's wife: It all gets ironed out. Money is an iron. Those creases all get smoothed out by money.”
Kang-ho Song - Kim Ki-taek
Hye-jin Jang - Kim Chung-sook

“- Veda: I don't like this house.
- Mildred: Neither do I. But that's no reason to marry a man I'm not in love with.
- Veda: Why not?
- Mildred: Veda, does a new house mean so much to you that you would trade me for it?”
Ann Blyth - Veda Pierce
Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce

“It's the poor man, the shit-shoveler with the arse out of his pants and two bob in his pocket that makes Australia. Every time trouble starts, there he is, standing like a fool at the recruiting office with his hand out for a rifle, while the rich boys are at home hanging on, waiting for a commission or their fathers to get them into a safe job....” (continue)(continue reading)
Graham Kennedy - Harry

“- Marisa Ventura: I can't try on her clothes!
- Stephanie Kehoe: They're not hers. They're not Dolce's. Technically, they've been abandoned. Oh, let's not let them hear us.
- Marisa Ventura: Who, the clothes?
- Stephanie Kehoe: Marisa Ave Maria Ventura... When are you and I ever get to try on a five thousand dollar anything? Come on, feel how...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jennifer Lopez - Marisa Ventura
Marissa Matrone - Stephanie Kehoe

“The three terrible karmas are beauty, wealth, and fame — they're the things that stop you from finding true happiness.”
Brad Pitt

“Money doesn't make you happy. I have $50 million, but I was just as happy as when I had $48 million.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger

“When a man gets wealthy, he has to deal with the problems of freedom. All the choices he could possibly want. An abyss opens up. Well, I watched that abyss. I watched it ruin men, marriages, but most of all, it ruins the children.”
Christopher Plummer - J. Paul Getty

“- Richard Parker: Now all of this could be yours, Lar, if you set your goals and work hard.
- Larry Wilson: My old man worked hard. All they did was give him more work.”

Jonathan Silverman - Richard Parker
Andrew McCarthy - Larry Wilson

“- Hector Guzman: You racist Americans. You just want to cut us poor Hispanics completely out of the market.
- David Jason: No, Mr. Guzman. I think you know that there's no such thing as an American anymore. No Hispanics, no Japanese, no blacks, no whites, no nothing. It's just rich people and poor people. The three of us are all rich, so we're...” (continue)(continue reading)
René Assa - Guzman
Jeff Goldblum - David Jason

“Never feel sorry for a man who owns a plane.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Charles Morse

“From now on, nothing goes down unless I'm involved. No blackjack no dope deals, no nothing. A nickel bag gets sold in the park, I want in. You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street. Now it's my turn.”
Christopher Walken - Frank White

“It should have been perfect. I mean he had me, Nicky Santoro, his best friend watching his ass. And he had Ginger, the woman he loved on his arm. But in the end, we fucked it all up. It should have been so sweet, too. But it turned out to be the last time that street guys like us were ever given anything that fuckin' valuable again.”

Joe Pesci - Nicky Santoro

“- Kane: If I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.
- Walter Parks Thatcher: Don't you think you are?
- Kane: I think I did pretty well under the circumstances.”
Orson Welles - Kane
George Coulouris - Walter Parks Thatcher

“- Daniel Miller: What is this?
- Julia: It's my hotel.
- Daniel Miller: This is your hotel?
- Julia: Where are you staying?
- Daniel Miller: Obviously at the place for people that weren't very generous and didn't adopt anybody. I'm at the Continental. Come over one day; we'll paint it.”
Albert Brooks - Daniel Miller
Meryl Streep - Julia

- Carl Fox: "There came into Egypt a Pharaoh who did not know".
- Gordon Gekko: I beg your pardon, is that a proverb?
- Carl Fox: No, a prophecy. The rich have been doing it to the poor since the beginning of time. The only difference between the Pyramids and the Empire State Building is the Egyptians didn't allow unions. I know what this guy is... (continue)(continue reading)
Martin Sheen - Carl Fox
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“Obscenity? The rich is getting richer and richer and richer while the middle class is getting more poor / Making billions and billions and billions of bucks / well, my friend, if you weren't already rich at the start, well, that situation just sucks / 'cause the riches motherfuckers in five of us is getting ninety-fucking-eight percent of it /...” (continue)(continue reading)

Warren Beatty - Jay Bulworth

“The richkids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.”
River Phoenix

- Eugene Martone: I'm a blues man.
- Willie Brown: A blues man?
- Willie Brown: Where you from, boy?
- Eugene Martone: Well, I was born in Long Island.
- Willie Brown: Oh, Long Island aw shit, this is rich! Long Island: the famous “breeding ground” for blues men!
Ralph Macchio - Eugene Martone
Joe Seneca - Willie Brown

“If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.”
Phyllis Diller

“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 idiotsons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation.”
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“- Miguel: Any regrets?
- Tulio: You mean besides dying? Yeah. I never had enough... gold.
- Miguel: My regret, besides dying is... our greatest adventure is over before it began, and no one will even remember us.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel
Kevin Kline - Tulio

“Just because you're in first class doesn't make you a first class person.”
Dame Judi Dench - Philomena Lee