"We live in an era of fraud in America ... not just banking, but government, religion even baseball." Mark Baum (Steve Carell)
"Tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and I’ll have my wife’s brother arrested." Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling)
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At a Las Vegas mortgage convention: "It looks like someone hit a piñata and out fell a bunch of white guys who aren't very good at golf." Vinny Daniel (Jeremy Strong)
"There’s some shady stuff going down. God, this is intimate. I feel like I’m financially inside of you or something." Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling)
"For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that?" Mark Baum (Steve Carell)
"Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry." (on screen)
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (on screen, by Mark Twain)
The Big Short is in cinemas from 22 January.
