The Spanish Prisoner (1997)

Steve Martin: Jimmy Dell

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• Jimmy Dell : I think you'll find that if what you've done for them is as valuable as you say it is, if they are indebted to you morally but not legally, my experience is they will give you nothing, and they will begin to act cruelly toward you.

  Joe Ross : Why?

  Jimmy Dell : To suppress their guilt.

• Jimmy Dell : Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.

• Jimmy Dell : You now have a Swiss bank account if anybody asks. Crédit Nationale Du Génève code name 'PADDY'. Lavish awkward gesture. All of fifteen Swiss Francs in it, but if you ever want to impress anybody, they can find out you have a Swiss account. But, Swiss law prohibits the bank from revealing the balance. Thus are all men made equal.

• Jimmy Dell : Do the American thing.

  Joe Ross : What's that?

  Jimmy Dell : Marry a rich widow.

  Joe Ross : We used to say, a nymphomaniac who owns a liquor store.

• Jimmy Dell : I'm a problem solver, with a heart of gold.

• Jimmy Dell : Good people, bad people, they generally look like what they are.