Quotations+-+Glengarry

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** Quotations - Glengarry Glen Ross **


 * Duty and Responsibility:**

Williamson: “Let me tell you something, Shelly. I do what I’m hired to do. I’m… wait a second. I’m hired to watch the leads. I’m given… hold on, I’m given a policy. My job is to do //that//.” (Page 4)

Moss: “We //enslave// ourselves. To //please//. To win some fucking //toaster//…to…to… and the guy who got there first made up those…” (Page 15)

Roma: “The truth, George. Always tell the truth. It’s the easiest thing to remember.” (Page 34)

Levene: “You don’t know what it //is//, you don’t have the //sense//, you don’t have the //balls//. You ever been on a sit? //Ever//?” (Page 43)

Williamson: “Will you take it outside, //we// have people trying to do //business// here…” (Page 52)

Roma: “What you’re hired for is to //help// us – does that seem clear to you? To //help// us. //Not// to fuck us up…” (Page 57)


 * American Dream:**

Levene: “He //talks//, he talks a good game, look at the //board//, and it’s //me//, John, it’s me…” (Page 2)

Moss: “Graff. He goes out and //buys//. He pays top dollar for the… you see?” (Page 13)

Levene: “Get the chalk and put me on the //board// I’m going to Hawaii! Put me on the Cadillac board Williamson!” (Page 35)

Levene: Our job is to sell. I'm the man to sell. I'm getting garbage.

Levene: "Get the chalk. Get the chalk...get the chalk! I closed 'em! I closed the cocksucker!"

Roma: "I swear...it's not a world of men...it's not a world of men, Machine...it's a world of clock watchers, bureaucrats, officeholders...what it is, it's a fucked-up world...there's no adventure to it."

Roma: "You want to learn the first rule you'll know if you ever spent a day in life, you never open your mouth till you know what the shot is."


 * Alienation and Loneliness:**

Roma: “I’ll be at the restaurant.” (Page 66)

Levene: Moss, Jerry Graff, Mitch himself...Those guys lived on the business I brought in.

Lingk: "My wife said we have to cancel the deal."


 * Language:**

Moss: “You had one you’d know it. //Patel//. They keep coming up. I don’t know. They like to talk to salesmen.” (Page 10)


 * Deception:**

Aaronow: “We’re just ‘//talking//’ about it.” Moss: “We’re just //speaking// about it. (Pause.) As an //idea//.” (Page 17)

Roma: You have nothing to hide [to Aaronow].


 * Success and Failure:**

Levene: Bullshit the thirtieth, I don't get on the board the thirtieth, they're going to can my ass. I need the leads. I need them now.

Moss: “Your mistake, you shoun’a took the lead.” Aaronow: “I had to.” Moss: “You had to, yeah, Why?” Aaronow: “To get on the…” Moss: To get on the board.” (Page 10)

Moss: “Don’t sell a guy one car. Sell him //five// cars over fifteen years.” (Page 12)

Levene**:** “They signed, Ricky. It was //great.// It was fucking great. It was like they wilted all at once. No //gesture…// nothing. Like together. They, I swear to god, they both kind of //imperceptibly slumped.//” (Page 42)


 * Morals and Morality:**

Roma: “The truth, George. Always tell the truth. It’s the easiest thing to remember.” (Page 34)

Aaronow : Someone should hurt them. [...] Moss: Someone should rob the office.

Roma: You think you're queer...? I'm going to tell you something: we're all queer.

Roma: Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.


 * Sexism:**

Levene: “You don’t know what it //is//, you don’t have the //sense//, you don’t have the //balls//. You ever been on a sit? //Ever//?” (Page 43)


 * Anger and Hatred:**

Levene: “Big deal. Fuck //you//, you got the memory of a fuckin’ //fly//. I never liked you.” (Page 40)

Williamson: “I want to tell you something, Shelly. You have a big mouth.” (Page 61)

Williamson: “Because I don’t like you.” (Page 63)