The Boost Quotes
Joel: [introducing Lenny to cocaine] Faith may move mountains; this stuff makes them FLY.
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Lenny: [responding to Mark's job offer] Mark, I don't sell drugs. I'm in real estate.
Mark: I don't sell drugs, either. I'm a screenwriter. But until the ship comes in, you gotta cover the waterfront.
Mark: I don't sell drugs, either. I'm a screenwriter. But until the ship comes in, you gotta cover the waterfront.
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Linda: [at dinner with Ned] ... Lenny told me about the mistake today. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He was sort of counting on that sale to break into the business.
Lenny: [to Linda] That doesn't mean anything to Ned.
Ned: What doesn't mean anything?
Lenny: Hustling for money. You're above all that.
Ned: I worry about money, just like everybody else.
Lenny: But you got some backstops. You start falling down that well, you got some slats across to catch yourself, right? You got your professor-father. You got an education. You got the Financial Journal. You can't fall too far. My old man's an ex-printer on disability! My mother is a secretary for the Ladies Garment Workers Union! I'VE GOT A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION!
Lenny: [to Linda] That doesn't mean anything to Ned.
Ned: What doesn't mean anything?
Lenny: Hustling for money. You're above all that.
Ned: I worry about money, just like everybody else.
Lenny: But you got some backstops. You start falling down that well, you got some slats across to catch yourself, right? You got your professor-father. You got an education. You got the Financial Journal. You can't fall too far. My old man's an ex-printer on disability! My mother is a secretary for the Ladies Garment Workers Union! I'VE GOT A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION!
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Max: [at Morton's Restaurant] ... Look around you. A lot of tables, right? Wrong. Five tables, including mine. All the rest of the people come here to eat. [He proceeds to indicate four other L.A.-based financial wizards and power-brokers]
Max: The five of us don't come here to eat.
Lenny: So what are you saying, I shouldn't order any food?
Max: Oh, no. Eat, eat. Just don't LOOK hungry.
Max: The five of us don't come here to eat.
Lenny: So what are you saying, I shouldn't order any food?
Max: Oh, no. Eat, eat. Just don't LOOK hungry.
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Max: [Max has discovered that Lenny put a check in Max's safety-deposit box, after borrowing $20,000 from the Century West Maintenance account, so that Lenny could treat Linda to a night in Las Vegas] A worthless goddamn CHECK?
Lenny: What are you getting hysterical about? It was just a LOAN.
Max: In all my life, I never treated ANYONE like I treated you! You were POOR; I made you RICH. You were DROWNING; I gave you a YACHT! And then you STOLE from me. After I treated you like a son. TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!
Lenny: You want another check? I'll write you another check right now.
Max: A check is no damn good. You want to be a liar as well as a thief?
Lenny: Then tell me what to do. Just tell me, Max.
Max: [hugs Lenny, then speaks softly] You gotta go. I can't have you around here anymore.
Lenny: What are you getting hysterical about? It was just a LOAN.
Max: In all my life, I never treated ANYONE like I treated you! You were POOR; I made you RICH. You were DROWNING; I gave you a YACHT! And then you STOLE from me. After I treated you like a son. TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!
Lenny: You want another check? I'll write you another check right now.
Max: A check is no damn good. You want to be a liar as well as a thief?
Lenny: Then tell me what to do. Just tell me, Max.
Max: [hugs Lenny, then speaks softly] You gotta go. I can't have you around here anymore.
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