"Hey, Jordon, let me give you a little legal advice: Shut the fuck up! [Jordon: [becomes enraged as he was escorted away by the FBI agents] Oh, fuck you, you fucking prick! I'm making an honest living, you motherfucker!]"

"[Seeing the results of Black Monday] HOLY... FUCKING... SHIT."

"Think about it. You're dealing with numbers. All day long, decimal points, high frequencies. Bang, bang, bang. Fucking digits. All very acidic above-the-shoulders mustard shit. All right? It kind of wigs some people out. Right. You got to feed the geese to keep the blood flowing. I keep the rhythm below the belt. Done."

"[On the phone with a customer] We don't give two shits about how technology works. All we care about is being fucking RICH."

"We don't start dialing at 9:30, because our clients are already answering the phone! Three, two, one, LET'S FUCK!"

"Thank God Aunt Emma didn’t need too much convincing. Turned out the British weren’t too different from the Swiss; money talks and bullshit takes the bus. How do you say “rat hole” in British?"

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it."

"I clean up my act, I did rehab, I'm a TV personality, I'm sober for two years, and THIS happens. Rugrat goes and gets busted down in Miami, and guess who the fuck with? Saurel. I mean, what are the fucking odds? There had to be 10,000 Swiss bankers in Geneva, and Rugrat gets the one dumb enough to get himself arrested on U.S. soil. Even more fucked, was that he got busted for shit that had nothing to do with me. It had nothing to fucking do with me! Something about laundering drug money through off-shore boat racing and a guy named Rocky Aoki. You know, the founder of Benihana. Benihana? Beni-fucking-hana?! BENI-FUCKING-HANA?! WHY?! WHY, WHY, GOD?! WHY WOULD YOU BE SO CRUEL AS TO CHOOSE A CHAIN OF FUCKING HIBACHI RESTAURANTS TO TAKE ME DOWN?!"

"This right here is the land of opportunity. This is America. This is my home! The show goes on! [quoting from Norma Rae] They're gonna need to send in the National Guard to take me out, 'cause I ain't going nowhere!"

"I fucked her brains out... for eleven seconds."

"An IPO is an initial public offering. It's a first time a stock is offered for sale to the general population. Now as the firm taking the company public, we set the initial sales price, then sold those shares right back to our friends. The i- Look, I-I know you're not following what I'm saying anyway, right? That's-that's okay. That doesn't matter. The real question is this: was all this legal? Absolutely fucking not. But we were making more money than we knew what do with."

"So you listen to me and you listen well. Are you behind on your credit card bills? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! Is your landlord ready to evict you? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! Does your girlfriend think you're a fucking worthless loser? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich! All you have to do today is pick up that phone and speak the words that I have taught you. And I will make you richer than the most powerful CEO in the United States of fucking America!"

"Let me tell you something. There's no nobility in poverty. I've been a poor man, and I've been a rich man. And I choose rich every fucking time."

"The Quaalude, or Lude as it is commonly referred to, was first synthesized in 1951 by an Indian doctor—that's dots, not feathers—as a sedative, and was prescribed to stressed-out housewives with sleep disorders. But, pretty soon, somebody figured out that if you resisted the urge to sleep for just 15 minutes, you got a pretty kick-ass high from it. Didn't take long for people to start abusing Ludes, of course, and in 1982, the U.S. Government "Schedule 1'd" them, along with the rest of the world. Which meant there was only a finite amount of these things left. No shit. You can't even buy them, anymore. You people are all shit out of luck."

"On a daily basis I consume enough drugs to sedate Manhattan, Long Island, and Queens for a month. I take Quaaludes 10-15 times a day for my "back pain", Adderall to stay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again, and morphine... Well, because it's awesome."

"You want to know what money sounds like? Go to a trading floor on Wall Street. "Fuck" this, "shit" that, "cunt", "cock", "asshole"; I couldn't believe how these guys talked to each other. I was hooked in seconds. It was like main-lining adrenaline."

"Men engaging in dwarf tossing when film freeze frames My name is Jordan Belfort. Freeze frame when dwarf is about to hit target Not him. Film shows protagonist Me. That's right. I'm a former member of the middle class raised by two accountants in a tiny apartment in Bayside, Queens. The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week."

"[urinating on his subpoena] Fuck you, U.S.A. Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!"

"Oh, my God, the emperor of Fucksville came down from Fucksville to give me a pass! [Brad: From Fucksville, huh?] Hey, what are the citizens of Fucksville doing today when their emperor's gone? Is it... is it mayhem? Are people looting and raping? What are all the little fuckheads doing while you're here?"

"There are so many aspects that often don't [appear in ] depictions of people in those oppressive circumstances. "12 Years a Slave," for example-one thing I missed in that film was some sense of joy, some sense of pleasure, some sense of humanity."

"12 Years a Slave is a scarifying, unblinking portrayal of life as it was for tens of thousands of people less than 200 years ago. It pulls no punches."

"In 12 Years a Slave, McQueen immerses viewers in the magnolia-scented hell to which Northup was exiled. You will recoil at every whiplash, feel each slur, wonder at man’s inhumanity to men and women he thought animals."

"Ruth Negga - Celeste"

"Dwight Henry - Uncle Abram"

"Bill Camp - Radburn"

"Bryan Batt - Judge Turner"

"Christopher Berry - James Birch"

"Jay Huguley - Sheriff Villiere"

"Rob Steinberg - Parker"

"Cameron Zeigler - Alonzo Northup"

"Quvenzhané Wallis - Margaret Northup"

"Alfre Woodard - Mistress Harriet Shaw"

"Kelsey Scott - Anne Northup"

"Michael K. Williams - Robert"

"Chris Chalk - Clemens Ray"

"Scoot McNairy - Brown"

"Garret Dillahunt - Armsby"

"Paul Giamatti - Theophilus Freeman"

"Adepero Oduye - Eliza"

"Paul Dano - John Tibeats"

"Brad Pitt - Samuel Bass"