Middle Men (2009)

Luke Wilson: Jack Harris

Photos 

Quotes 

• Jack Harris : [Narrating]  If I've learned one thing, it's that business is a lot like sex. Getting in is easy, pulling out is hard.

• Jack Harris : I'm just a business man.

  Nikita Sokoloff : Aren't we all?

• Jack Harris : [Narrating]  Like everyone else, we were in debt trying to chase the American Dream.

• Jack Harris : [Narrating]  Within a day, Buck and Wayne were convinced they were George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

• Jack Harris : I have no interest in making a living creating porn.

• Frank Griffin : Can I count on your vote next year?

  Jack Harris : Got it.

• Jack Harris : [Trailer Narration]  I was one of those guys living in a Norman Rockwell painting. Beautiful wife, beautiful kids... we were happy.

• Jack Harris : Hey do we wanna get the money or do we wanna break this guy's legs? I say we get the money, you know?

• Jack Harris : It should have been perfect, but somehow, they'd figure a way to screw it all up.

• Jack Harris : She was right, I wasn't there anymore. I'd become addicted to a lifestyle of money, sex, and power that was lightyears away from family... or anything I'd ever experienced. You see the biggest problem with my addiction, was that like all addictions, it sneaks up on you slowly; you give into it incrementally... in an almost imperceptible way. The other thing about it was that it wasn't the kind of addiction that you would wake up with a hangover. It wasn't the kind of thing that would rob you of your wealth. It didn't rob you of your health. The more I indulged, the richer it would make me. I've got to tell you, that's impossible to give up.

• [first lines] 

  Jack Harris : [narrating]  I had several million dollars in a duffle bag and had to go and see a bunch of low-life Russian mobsters who would most likely cut my throat, take the money, and kill an innocent kid just for sport. It doesn't get any worse than this. But I had no one to blame but myself. I'm the one who put myself and my family in this situation.

  Jack Harris : See, life's all about choices, choices we keep telling ourselves are for the greater good. But somewhere deep inside, we know they'll lead to a place like this.

  Jack Harris : And it wasn't greed or ego that got me here. I'm here because of what I had a hand in creating. It wasn't something that would change the world for the better, it wasn't something that would put me in the history books, make me a household name or get me a statue in a park. But I did have a hand in creating the greatest invention of our time. I inadvertently changed the world as we know it. My name is Jack Harris and I figured out a better way for guys to jerk off.