The Boost (1988)

Steven Hill: Max Sherman

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• Max : [Max has discovered that Lenny put a check in Max's safety-deposit box, after "borrowing" $20,000 from the Century West Maintenance account, so that Lenny could treat Linda to a night in Las Vegas]  A worthless goddamn CHECK?

  Lenny : What are you getting hysterical about? It was just a LOAN.

  Max : In all my life, I never treated ANYONE like I treated you! You were POOR; I made you RICH. You were DROWNING; I gave you a YACHT! And then you STOLE from me. After I treated you like a son. TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!

  Lenny : You want another check? I'll write you another check right now.

  Max : A check is no damn good. You want to be a liar as well as a thief?

  Lenny : Then tell me what to do. Just tell me, Max.

  Max : [hugs Lenny, then speaks softly]  You gotta go. I can't have you around here anymore.

• Max : That's the problem with the younger generation: No sentiment.

• Max : [on investment banking]  Out here, you gotta start scoring baskets right off the bench... or you're out of the game.

• Max : I live where the money is. You don't think this NYC crowd would have anything to do with me unless I could move millions of bucks around, do you...? Does your wife work?

  Lenny : Yeah, she has a great job.

  Max : Lucky for you.

  Lenny : I do all right. Everything I do is just a lot chancier, that's all.

  Max : You just probably haven't found the right products yet, the right territory.

• Max : [at Morton's Restaurant]  ... This is my table. Everybody knows where I sit: waiters, guests, the whole bit... Look around you. A lot of tables, right? Wrong. Five tables. All the rest of the people come here to eat... Ray Tucker. Manages the money for half the Rams, all the Raiders, and anybody you ever saw on TV. Five percent off the top... Carter Davis, oil... Ricky Holt, builds airports... David Gertz, calls himself Doc. He used to be a chiropractor; now he produces movies... And me. The five of us don't come here to eat.

  Lenny : So what are you saying, I shouldn't order any food?

  Max : Oh, no. Eat. Just don't look hungry.