11 Movie Quotes about Currency (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

Memorable quotes about currency, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 To me, a dollar was a dollar in any language.

Glenn Ford as Johnny Farrell in Gilda (1946)

2 Look, do you think they'd accept these? -Gee! What are they? Diamonds? -Well, in some places these are what people use for money. They're easy to carry and they don't wear out.

Michael Rennie as Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1954)

3 Then tell me who pays for the Greek blood shed on this plain? -Trojan blood has paid in full. -Trojan blood is not valid currency in Sparta, nor does it pay for the launching of a thousand ships.

Harry Andrews as Hector Of Troy; Niall MacGinnis as Menelaus in Helen of Troy (1956)

4 It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet.

Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen in Network (1976)

5 The state of the pound is so uncertain. You must think in terms of hard currency.

Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther in Beat the Devil (1953)

6 No, I haven't got the currency right here in my hands. But it's promised by an unimpeachable source.

Sterling Hayden as Dix Handley in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

7 Hard currency! That'll do nicely.

Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996)

8 Take it out of that and bring me the change in American currency - large denominations.

Stan Laurel as Stan in Swiss Miss (1938)

9 And think of the consequences if False Face would place the bank's good money with counterfeit currency.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

10 Do you think that the currency problem in Europe would be alleviated by an arms agreement between the French and the Bolsheviks?

Anthony Hopkins as Mr Stevens in The Remains of the Day