Quotes about Money

Jim Blandings: $7,000? I wouldn't put seven cents into this broken down rat trap.
Muriel Blandings: Jim, how can you talk that way? This is our home. Betsy was practically born in this apartment.
Jim Blandings: That does not make it a national shrine!

- Cary Grant (as Jim Blandings) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Jim Blandings: It's like a fine painting. You buy it with your heart, not your head. You don't ask 'how much was the paint,' 'how much was the canvas.' You look at it and you say 'it's beautiful -- I want it.' And if it costs a few more pennies, you pay it -- and gladly -- because you love it. And you can't measure the things you love in dollars and cents!

- Cary Grant (as Jim Blandings) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Jim Blandings: What do you think, Bill? Steal, huh?
Bill Cole: Humm... Steal's an understatement. Swindle might be a little more appropriate.

- Melvyn Douglas (as Bill Cole) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Jim Blandings: Look, you can't measure everything on a slide rule. This house has certain intangibles.
Bill Cole: Like what for instance?
Jim Blandings: Like antique value for instance. It just so happens that General, um, Gates stopped right there, that very house, to water his horses.
Bill Cole: I don't care if General Grant stopped in for a scotch and sode. You're still getting rooked.

- Melvyn Douglas (as Bill Cole) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Mr. Tesander: Mr. Blandings, there's a matter of $12.36.
Jim Blandings: $12.36?!? Why be a pika Mr. Tesander? Here! Take everything I've got! Spread it out amongst your pals. Perhaps Retch would like a little something! Maybe Zucca could use a new smoking jacket! It's open house Mr. Tesander -- help yourself!

- Cary Grant (as Jim Blandings) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Jim Blandings: Anybody who builds a house today is crazy. The minute you start, they put you on the list -- the all-American sucker list! You start out to build a home and you wind up in the poor house! And if it can happen to me, what about the fellows who aren't making $15,000 a year? What about the kids who just got married and want a home of their own? It's a conspiracy I tell you -- a conspiracy against every boy and girl who were ever in love!

- Cary Grant (as Jim Blandings) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Sophie Manetta: Suppose Tony gets the money tonight?
Mario Manetta: Suppose! Suppose it snows in this lobby! Suppose! He's a bum!

- Edward G. Robinson (as Mario Manetta) in A Hole in the Head (1959)

Cabbie: You know sir, I haven't gotten a dime tip since 1932. I'd love to frame it along with a picture of the sport that gave it to me.
Mario Manetta: You got so much money you don't need a dime??? Well, I need a dime and I got more money than you!

- Edward G. Robinson (as Mario Manetta) in A Hole in the Head (1959)

Mario Manetta: You know your trouble? I'll tell you... You're not satisfied to be just getting along like everybody else. You want to be a millionaire. You want to live on Easy Street. Easy Street! I'll tell you who lives on Easy Street -- nobody! You want to make a million over night. Well it doesn't happen that way. I worked hard all my life -- 14 hours a day -- and made a good living. I never took a vacation in my whole life -- and I'm proud of it!

- Edward G. Robinson (as Mario Manetta) in A Hole in the Head (1959)

Tony Manetta: I got imagination. You got no imagination.
Mario Manetta: You got imagination?
Tony Manetta: Yes.
Mario Manetta: I haven't got any?
Tony Manetta: None.
Mario Manetta: You got it and you're poor!
Tony Manetta: No, no, no. Broke many times, but never poor! You would never understand that.

- Frank Sinatra (as Tony Manetta) in A Hole in the Head (1959)