Wall Street (1987)

Martin Sheen: Carl Fox

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Quotes 

• Carl Fox : Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow...

• Carl Fox : Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

• Carl Fox : He's using you, kid. He's got your prick in his back pocket, but you're too blind to see it.

  Bud Fox : No. What I see is a jealous old machinist who can't stand the fact that his son has become more successful than he has!

  Carl Fox : What you see is a guy who never measured a man's success by the size of his WALLET!

  Bud Fox : That's because you never had the GUTS to go out into the world and stake your own claim!

  [Long Pause] 

  Carl Fox : Boy, if that's the way you feel, I must have done a really lousy job as a father.

• 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 all about, greed. He don't give a damn about Bluestar or the unions. He's in and out for the buck and he don't take prisoners.

• [In the last scene, The Foxes are driving down FDR Drive towards the U.S. Court House downtown] 

  Carl Fox : You told the truth and gave the money back. All things considered in this cockamamie world, you're shooting par.

  Mrs. Fox : You helped saved the airline, and the airline people are gonna remember you for it.

  Carl Fox : That's right. If I were you, I'd think about the job at Bluestar that Wildman offered you.

  Bud Fox : Dad, I'm going to jail and you know it.

  Carl Fox : Yeah, well, maybe that's the price, son. It's gonna be hard on you, that's for sure. But maybe in some kind of screwed-up way, it's the best thing that could've happened to you. You stop going for the easy buck and produce something with your life. Create instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

  [drops Bud off at the Supreme Court House] 

  Carl Fox : We'll park the car and catch up with you.

  Bud Fox : All right.

• Carl Fox : I don't go to bed with no whore, and I don't wake up with no whore. That's how I live with myself. I don't know how you do it.

• Bud Fox : Did mom give you fish for dinner?

  Carl Fox : Spaghetti! Your mother still makes lousy spaghetti.

  Bud Fox : It's called "pasta" now, dad. "Spaghetti" is out of date.

  Carl Fox : So am I.

• Carl Fox : It's yourself you have to be proud of.

• [last lines] 

  Carl Fox : [Bud is being dropped off in front of the courthouse]  We'll park the car and catch up with you.

  Bud Fox : Alright.