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Adam McKay Quotes

Total quotes: 63
“Well, let me just quote the late-great Colonel Sanders, who said…’I’m too drunk to taste this chicken.’”
— Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Colonel Sanders
“[to Ben sitting with his laptop doing deals] Who are you a drug dealer or a banker? Cause if you're a banker you can fuck right off!”
— Vinny Daniel, The Big Short
Tagged: Drug Dealer, banker, fuck off
“It's like someone hit a piñata full of white people who suck at golf.”
— Vinny Daniel, The Big Short
Tagged: Piñata, White People, Anti-White, Golf
“People hate to think about bad things happening so they always underestimate their likelihood.”
— Jamie Shipley, The Big Short
Tagged: Bad Things, underestimate
“That's a nice haircut. Did you do it yourself?”
— Michael Burry, The Big Short
Tagged: haircut, Insult
“I'm jacked! I'm jacked to the tits!”
— Jared Vennett, The Big Short
Tagged: jacked, Tits
“ Tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and I'll have my wife's brother arrested.”
— Jared Vennett, The Big Short
Tagged: Stupid, illegal
“If we're right, people lose homes. People lose jobs. People lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about fucking banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here's a number—every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that?”
— Ben Rickert, The Big Short
Tagged: Banking, Numbers, retirement pensions, Savings
“I'm going to find moral redemption at the roulette table.”
— Mark Baum, The Big Short
Tagged: moral redemption, roulette table
“We're going to wait and we're going to wait and we're going to wait until they feel the pain, until they start to bleed.”
— Mark Baum, The Big Short
Tagged: Waiting, Pain, Bleed
“And I'm getting madder and madder and I ask this guy how he sleeps at night knowing he's ripping off working people and he just leaves. He doesn't say a word. He just walks away from the lunch. So am I fucked up or is he?”
— Mark Baum, The Big Short
Tagged: fucked up, madder
“Short everything that man has touched.”
— Mark Baum, The Big Short
Tagged: stock trading, short sell
“I have a feeling in a few years people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks. They will be blaming immigrants and poor people.”
— Mark Baum, The Big Short
Tagged: bad economy, Xenophobia, blame the poor
“We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me ins't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and shortsighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did.”
— Mark Baum, The Big Short
Tagged: Fraud, America, Religion, Government, baseball
“He just kicked your ass full-size, you really wanna find out what it's like when you can't see him coming?”
— Howard Stark, Ant-Man
Tagged: ass kicking
“Cassie Lang: Are you trying to find my daddy?

Paxton: Uh, yeah I am, sweetheart. I just want your daddy to be safe.

Cassie Lang: Hope you don't catch him.”
— Cassie, Ant-Man
Tagged: Safety, fugitive
“Long time no see, Dr. Pym. How's retirement?”
— Frank, Ant-Man
Tagged: Reunions, Retirement
“Thank you for the coffee ma'am. It's not too often that you rob a place, and then get welcomed back. Because we just robbed you!”
— Luis, Ant-Man
Tagged: Coffee, Robbery, Gratitude
“Pick on someone your own size!”
— Scott Lang / Ant-Man, Ant-Man
Tagged: bullying
“Sorry I'm late, I was saving the world. You know how it is.”
— Scott Lang / Ant-Man, Ant-Man
Tagged: late, Saving The World
“[Surrounded by police] Wait, I didn't steal anything! I was returning something I stole!”
— Scott Lang / Ant-Man, Ant-Man
Tagged: Burglary, Theft
“Scott Lang: My days of breaking into places and stealing shit are over! What do you need me to do?

Hank Pym: I want you to break into a place and steal some shit.

Scott Lang: Makes sense.”
— Scott Lang / Ant-Man, Ant-Man
Tagged: Burglary, Theft, Reform
“Hey! It's me, America!”
— Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Tagged: dumb americans
“Ricky Bobby: You sick sons of bitches. I mean you walk in that door, on your two legs...all fat and cocky and lookin' at me in my chair. And you tell me its all in my head? I hope that both of you have sons... Handsome, beautiful, articulate sons, who are talented and star athletes and they have their legs taken away. I mean I pray you know that pain and that hurt.

Lucius Washington: [enraged] Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby! Don't you put that on us! You are NOT paralyzed!

Ricky Bobby: This sticker is dangerous and inconvenient, but I do love Fig Newtons.”
— Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Tagged: Sick, sons of bitches, cocky, Handsome, athletes, Evil, fig newtons
“Dear Lord baby Jesus, lyin' there in your ghost manger, just lookin' at your Baby Einstein developmental videos, learnin' 'bout shapes and colors. I would like to thank you for bringin' me and my mama together, and also that my kids no longer sound like retarded gang-bangers.”
— Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Tagged: jesus, manger, Ghost, baby einstein, Retarded, gang-bangers
“Dear 8 pounds 6 ounces...newborn infant Jesus, don't even know a word yet.”
— Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Tagged: newborn, infant, jesus
“If you ain't first, you're last.”
— Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Tagged: first, Last
“ [running around on the track in his underwear] Help me, Jesus! Help me, Jewish God! Help me, Allah! AAAAAHHH! Help me Tom Cruise! Tom Cruise, use your witchcraft on me to get the fire off me!”
— Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Tagged: self-immolation, jesus, jewish god, Allah, Tom Cruise, Witchcraft
“Hi, I'm Ricky Bobby. If you don't chew Big Red, then f-[bleep] you.”
— Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Tagged: Big Red, Chewing Tobacco, Fuck You
“Well let me just quote the late-great Colonel Sanders, who said...'I'm too drunk to taste this chicken.'”
— Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Tagged: Colonel Sanders, Misquote, Drunk, chicken
“[Yellowjacket appears in Cassie's room]
Cassie: Are you a monster?

Yellowjacket: Do I look like a monster?

Cassie: …I want my daddy!

Yellowjacket: [menacingly] I know. I want your daddy, too.”
— Cassie, Ant-Man
Tagged: monster, Daddy
“[Scott demonstrates the Ant-Man suit to his crew for the first time]
Scott: Now, look. This is gonna get weird, all right? It's pretty freaky, but it's safe. There's no reason to be scared.

Luis: Oh, no no. Daddy don't get scared.

Scott: Really?

Luis: Yeah.

Scott: Good. [Closes his helmet and pushes the button that shrinks him]

Kurt: [Gasps, jumps out of chair] This is the work of gypsies!

Dave: That's witchcraft!

Luis: [Keeping his cool] That's amazing. That's like some David Copperfield shit!

Dave: That's wizardry!

Kurt: Sorcery!

Luis: How'd you do that, bro?

Scott: Don't freak out, look at your shoulder. [Luis looks at his shoulder and sees the miniaturized Scott]

Luis: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! [runs out of the room] Get if off! Get it off!

Scott: I thought Daddy didn't get scared!”
— Kurt, Ant-Man
Tagged: Weird, freaky, Witchcraft, david copperfield, wizardry, Sorcery
“Scott: [approaching the ‘old Stark warehouse' he's supposed to burglarize] Uh, guys, we might have a problem. Hank, didn't you say this was some old warehouse? [The 'warehouse' comes into clearer view, with a large circle-A insignia on the roof denoting its role as the Avengers' base] It's not! YOU SON OF A BITCH!!

Hope: Scott, get out of there!

Hank: Abort! Abort now!

Scott: No, it's okay. Doesn't look like anyone's home.”
— Scott Lang / Ant-Man, Ant-Man
Tagged: Burglary
“[a training montage where Scott learns about his new six-legged friends]
Hope: Paratrechina longicornis, commonly known as crazy ants. They're lightning-fast and can conduct electricity, which makes them useful to fry out enemy electronics.

Scott: Aww, you're not so crazy. You're cute.

Hope: Paraponera clavata.

Scott: I know, bullet ants, right? Number one on the Schmidt Pain Index.

Hope: Camponotus pennsylvanicus.

Hank: Alternatively known as a carpenter ant. Ideal for ground and air transport.

Scott: [with the carpenter ant he previously flew on] Wait a minute. I know this guy. I'm gonna call him Antony.

Hank: That's good. That's very good, because this time you're really gonna have to learn how to control him.”
— Hope van Dyne, Ant-Man
Tagged: Ants, entomology
“Hope: You're gonna have to learn how to punch.

Scott: You're gonna show me how to punch? [holds up his hand as a target] Okay. Show me how to—[Hope cuts him off with a punch to the face]

Hope: That's how you punch.

Scott: OW! Were you even aiming for my hand?”
— Hope van Dyne, Ant-Man
Tagged: Punching
“[after Scott puts on the Ant-Man suit and shrinks for the first time]
Hank: [on comms] The world sure seems different from down here, doesn't it Scott?

Scott: Who said that?

[After Hank briefs Scott on what Cross is planning and wants him to be the Ant-Man]
Scott: Ok, the first thing we should do…is call the Avengers.

Hank: [Angry] I spent thirty years protecting that technology from a Stark, I sure as hell don't intend to give it to another! This isn't some cute tech like the Iron Man suit, it could change the face of reality! Besides, they must already have their hands busy throwing cities out of the sky…”
— Hank Pym, Ant-Man
Tagged: Avengers, Tech, Iron Man
“[Scott breaks into a house and reaches the safe]
Luis: How serious are we talkin', Scotty?

Scott: It's a Carbondale. It's from 1910, made from the same steel as the Titanic.

Luis: Wow. can you crack it?

Scott: Well here's the thing. It doesn't do so well with cold. You remember what that iceberg did, right?

Luis: Yeah, it killed DiCaprio.

Dave: Killed everyone.

Kurt: Did not kill the old lady. She survives to throw jewel in ocean.”
— Luis, Ant-Man
Tagged: Carbondale, Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio
“[1989: Hank Pym storms S.H.I.E.L.D's board room in the Triskelion]
Hank Pym: Stark.

Howard Stark: [murmuring] He doesn't seem happy… [normal] Hello, Hank, You're supposed to be in Moscow.

Hank Pym: I took a detour. [takes a Pym Particle vial and puts it on the desk] Through your defense lab.

Peggy Carter: Tell me that isn't what I think it is.

Hank Pym: That depends if you think it's a poor attempt to replicate my work. Even for this group, that takes nerve.

Mitchell Carson: You were instructed to go to Russia. May I remind you, Dr. Pym, that you're a soldier?

Hank Pym: I'm a scientist.

Howard Stark: Then act like one, The Pym Particle is the most revolutionary science ever developed, help us put it to good use.

Hank Pym: I let you turn me into your errand boy, and now you try to steal my research?

Mitchell Carson: If only you'd protected Janet with such ferocity, Dr. Pym. [Pym takes a moment to control himself before he slams Carson's head into the desk]

Peggy Carter: [intervening] Easy, Hank!

Hank Pym: You mention my wife again, and I'll show you ferocity.

Howard Stark: [as Carson stares at him] Don't look at me. You said it.

Hank Pym: I formally tender my resignation.

Howard Stark: We won't accept it…formally. Hank, we need you. The Pym Particle is a miracle. Please, don't let your past determine the future.

Hank Pym: As long as I am alive, nobody will ever get that formula. [Pym turns around and leaves calmly]

Mitchell Carson: We shouldn't let him leave the building.

Peggy Carter: You've already lied to him, now you want to go to war with him?

Mitchell Carson: Yes! Our scientists haven't come close to replicating his work.

Howard Stark: He just kicked your ass full-size. You really want to find out what it's like when you can't see him coming?”
— Hank Pym, Ant-Man
Tagged: Moscow, detour, Pym Particle, Kick Ass
“No one is paying attention because the banks are too busy getting paid obscene fees to sell these bonds.”
— Jared Vennett, The Big Short
Tagged: Wall Street, Finance, The Big Short, Housing Market
“You guys said you wanted to get rich, now you're rich.”
— Ben Rickert, The Big Short
Tagged: Finance, The Big Short, Wall Street, Housing Market
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