Indecent Proposal (1993)

Oliver Platt: Jeremy

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• Jeremy : [on the phone]  Let me get this straight. He offered you a million dollars for a night with your wife? As in *your* wife Diana? And you agreed to it? I don't know what to say. How could you do something like that? *How could you negotiate without me?* Never negotiate without your lawyer. Never! For a woman like Diana I could have gotten you at least two million. Obviously, you don't want to get screwed, and then... screwed!

• Jeremy : Davy, she says she doesn't want the money.

  David : Well, I don't want the money either.

  Jeremy : ...I'll take it. I mean, nobody else wants it.

• John : [reading through the contract drawn up by Jeremy]  Do you want to elaborate on the "Verification" clause?

  Jeremy : Verification? That means you pay even if the relationship isn't consummated.

  John : You mean if I'm impotent?

  Jeremy : It's important for a lawyer to cover contingencies.

  John : I can live with that. The "John Garfield Clause"?

  Jeremy : That's if you die in the act.

  John : I have no problem with that either. Could I have your pen?

  [signs contract] 

  John : You're pretty good, you know.

  Jeremy : Thank you.

  John : You should come and work for me.

  Jeremy : Ooh!

• Jeremy : For a million bucks *I'd* sleep with him.

  [David glares at him] 

  Jeremy : ... Maybe not.

• John : [to his class]  Even a common ordinary brick wants to be something more than it is - wants to be something better than it is. And that is what we must be... See you on Friday.

  Jeremy : A brick wants to be something, huh? I bet it doesn't want to be a lawyer.

• Jeremy : I knew something like this was gonna happen. I guess you, uh, make a deal with the devil, then eventually you pay the price, right?

  David : Thanks, Jeremy. Coming from the man who closed the deal with the devil, that's very comforting.

• Jeremy : OK, David, before we go any further, let's get the moral issue out of the way.

  David : Leave that to us.

  Jeremy : No, I was referring to my fee. I get five percent.