The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
"I myself jerk off at least twice a day"; "There's no nobility in poverty"; "Sell me this pen"; "Pick up the phone and start dialing"; "Fun coupons"; "I ask them to judge me on my losers because I have so few"; "I'm never eating at Benny Hanna again"; "You had to deal with the golf course people too"; "Risk is what keeps us young"; "Telephone fucking terrorists"
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- About 1200 words of quotes were pasted but it will not go on too long; the entire McConaughey jerking-off speech is the quote, played as a clip, 'feed the geese' and 'mustard shit' included; it is loved because it is a fake Robert Downey Jr. performance, free-associative, hyper-intelligent but completely illogical word vomit.
- Not every scumbag line needs repeating, but 'there's no nobility in poverty', a pull from Wall Street, and 'I have been a rich man and I have been a poor man and I choose rich every fucking time' are the kind of lines weaponized by the movie; the opening lines about the middle class, two accountants in Bayside and $49 million being three shy of a million a week are read.
- 'Sell me this pen' is the famous one; the 'are you behind on your credit card bills, good, pick up the phone and start dialing' speech and 'deal with your problems by becoming rich'.
- Leo's 'lions and tigers and bears' after the hit of crack; 'fun coupons' thrown at Kyle Chandler, who has not been repped much; that scene has the moment where you want him to stop making it worse, and fun coupons itself is a little over the top.
- The AeroTine (as transcribed) pitch in the Long Island office, 'I never ask my clients to judge me on my winners, I ask them to judge me on my losers because I have so few', is a favorite because it finally shows the character being great at the thing he is supposedly great at, the kid with the lemonade stand marking up candy, with the hand gestures and everyone in the background mattering as much as DiCaprio.
- 'I'm never eating at Benny Hanna again' (as transcribed), the golf-course-people and Greek-tragedy rant with 'you had to pay them in cash with your hands' and the wine connoisseur turned landscape architect played as a clip; 'show me a pay stub for $72,000'; Aunt Emma's 'risk is what keeps us young' as a tidy tagline for the movie; 'you'd be telephone fucking terrorists'.
- Asked for more, the addressed host adds the massive heart attack at 35, same age Mozart died, the Sea Otter who sold meat and weed introduction, 'you're free now, run free', 'I'm not gonna let someone else fuck my cousin', and the O'Doul's and baking-powder exchange that ends with 'it sucks, man'. — Chris Ryan