"[on the housing crisis] You know, people act like we're crack dealers. Nobody put a gun to anybody's head and said, "Hey, nimrod, buy a house you can't afford, and you know what? While you're at it, put a line of credit on that baby and buy yourself a boat.""

"Ayad Akhtar - Neel Kashkari, Assistant Secretary for International Economics and Development"

"Margin Call (2011)"

"Edward Asner - Warren Buffett, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway"

"I've seen this before: CEOs panic and they sell out cheap. Right now, the Street's running around with its hair on fire, but the storm always passes. We stand strong, and on the other side, we'll eat Goldman's lunch."

"Nancy Pelosi: (when Paulson kneels down in front of her) Hank, I didn't know you were Catholic."

"Topher Grace - Jim Wilkinson, U.S. Treasury Chief of Staff"

"Amy Carlson - Erin Callan, CFO, Lehman Brothers"

"Laila Robins - Christine Lagarde, French Finance Minister"

"Matthew Modine - John Thain, CEO, Merrill Lynch"

"James Woods - Richard "Dick" Fuld, CEO, Lehman Brothers"

"Paul Giamatti - Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve"

"Michele Davis: They almost bring down the U.S. economy as we know it, but we can't put restrictions on how they spend the $125 billion we're giving them because... they might not take it?"

"I don't really understand why there needs to be so much tension about this. The country is facing the worst economy since the Great Depression. If the financial system collapses, it will take every one of you down."

"Jim Wilkinson: (watching Paulson's conversation with John McCain) He's not... threatening the Republican Presidential nominee, is he?"

"Congressman Barney Frank: (reviewing the first draft of TARP) It's all for the banks. You don't want a penny for the average Joe that's about to lose his house?"

"Billy Crudup - Timothy Geithner, President of the New York Federal Reserve"

"Joey Slotnick - Dan Jester"

"John Heard - Joe Gregory, COO, Lehman Brothers"

"Tony Shalhoub - John Mack, CEO, Morgan Stanley"

"Kathy Baker - Wendy Paulson"

"The Big Short (2015)"

"Ajay Mehta - Vikram Pandit, CEO, Citibank"

"Evan Handler - Lloyd Blankfein, CEO, Goldman Sachs"

"Bill Pullman - Jamie Dimon, CEO, JP Morgan Chase"

"Peter Hermann - Christopher Cox, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission"

"Cynthia Nixon - Michele Davis, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs"

"William Hurt - Henry Paulson, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury"

"Timothy Geithner: I'm on the Street, Hank, and people are just going about their business. They have no idea the whole thing is about to fall down."

"We're late. We've been late on everything."

"I spent my entire academic career studying the Great Depression. The depression may have started because of a stock market crash, but what hit the general economy was a disruption of credit. Average citizens unable to borrow money, to do anything. To buy a home, start a business, stock their shelves. Credit has the ability to build a modern economy, but lack of credit has the ability to destroy it, swiftly and absolutely. If we do not act, boldly and immediately, we will replay the depression of the 1930s, only this time it will be... far, far worse. We don't do this now, we won't have an economy on Monday."

"I'm going to try to find moral redemption at the roulette table."

"We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually, you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did."

"Holy shit. All this time I've been trying to figure out who it is I'm betting against, and it's Morgan-Stanley. Which is me."

"Ryan Gosling - Jared Vennett"

"We're going to wait and we're going to wait and we're going to wait until they feel the pain until they start to bleed."

"Brad Pitt - Ben Rickert"

"John Magaro - Charlie Geller"

"Jamie Shipley: This level of criminality is unprecedented, even for fucking Wall Street!"

"Pub patron: [To Ben] Are you a drug dealer or a banker? Because if you're a banker, you can fuck right off!"

"Christian Bale - Dr. Michael Burry"

"The banks have given us 25% interest rates on credit cards. They have screwed us on student loans that we can never get out from under. Then this guy walks into my office and says those same banks got greedy, they lost track of the market, and I can profit off of their stupidity? Fuck yeah, I want him to be right!"

"[Regarding Vennett] I can't hate him. He's so transparent in his self-interest, that I kind of respect him. Would I buy a car from him? No."

"They knew. They knew the taxpayers would bail them out. They weren't being stupid; they just didn't care."

"Charlie Geller: Will you listen to me?! This, like, the end of capitalism! This is like the Dark Ages all over again!"

"Steve Carell - Mark Baum"

"It's two simple questions: Is there a bubble? And if there is, how exposed are the banks?"

"So, mortgage bonds are dog shit, and CDO's are dog shit wrapped in cat shit?"

"Finn Wittrock - Jamie Shipley"