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I take quaaludes ten to fifteen times a day for my "back pain", adderall tostay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again and morphine well... 'cause its awesome.

It’s business. Leave your emotions at the door.

Money doesn't just buy you a better life, better food, better cars, better p*ssy. It also makes you a better person.

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

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.

Okay, first rule of Wall Street: Nobody - and I don't care if you're Warren Buffet or Jimmy Buffet - nobody knows if a stock's going up, down or f*cking sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.

Max Belfort: "What kind of a hooker takes credit cards?"
Donnie Azoff: "A rich one!"

You wanna know what money sounds like? Go to a trading floor on Wall Street.

97% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3% who didn’t.

Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.

You got my money taped to your t*ts, honey. Technically, you do work for me.

My name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

Jordan Belfort: "You are able to do drugs during the day and then still function, still do your job?"
Mark Hanna: "How the f*ck else would you do this job? Cocaine and hookers, my friend."

Bring us two Absolute Martinis - you know how I like 'em, straight up - and then precisely seven and one-half-minute after that, you're gonna bring us two more. And then two more after that every five minutes, until one of us passes the f*ck out.

Comic fans are some of the toughest fans to please, and I'm one of them.

Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.

My mother is a walking miracle.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being a writer on 'The Simpsons,' which was a weird dream to have. But I started taking acting classes as a way to learn how to direct actors and I sort of fell in love with it.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience.

All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?

I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy.

Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.

Great companies are built on great products.

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.