Martin 'Marty' Byrde Quotes

Del: Grab what you can while you can.
Martin 'Marty' Byrde: I, just, uh, you know...
Del: What? The risks?
Martin 'Marty' Byrde: Yes.
Del: Well, I understand, but you only really have to worry about the risks if you are careless or dumb. And you're neither.

Martin 'Marty' Byrde: You know, by shooting him, you basically signed my death warrant.
Buddy Dieker: Well, remind me, next time, I'll let him kill your family.

Money is not peace of mind. Money's not happiness. Money is, at its essence that measure of a man's choices.

Wendy Byrde: I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure you can inflate construction costs and launder money through it. And quite frankly, I don't give a shit if you like it or not. 'Cause I feel pretty good about it. It's a good idea, and I did it for our family. What'd you do today - for our family?
Martin 'Marty' Byrde: Bought a strip club.

Martin 'Marty' Byrde: Well, obviously, I didn't kill anyone.
Ruth Langmore: I know. If you're a killer, then I'm fucking Snow White. And I don't see any dwarfs around.

Wendy Byrde: Hi, this is Wendy. Leave me a message.
Martin 'Marty' Byrde: They put up a cross. Jesus fuck! They put up a cross.

Wendy Byrde: Skip wrapping it. Just get it out of sight.
Martin 'Marty' Byrde: No, I can't just stack bills in a wall and call it a day. There's rot, and there's termites, there's rats. First year I did this, Bruce lost 300K in two days to squirrels.

Marriage Counselor: Marty, what would it look like to achieve your objectives without interfering with Wendy's project.
Martin 'Marty' Byrde: I think that that would look like death.
Marriage Counselor: But what would it really look like.
Martin 'Marty' Byrde: Really, death.
Marriage Counselor: Okay. Marty, my mother had a saying. Just as a pie is only as good as it's crust, a marriage is only as good as it's trust.

Martin 'Marty' Byrde: Remember in Chicago when they were like 10 and 7, and they wanted to know what murder was?
Wendy Byrde: Vaguely.
Martin 'Marty' Byrde: And Jonah asked, if someone's driving and they hit somebody who was walking, was that murder?
Wendy Byrde: And I said no, it was manslaughter.
Martin 'Marty' Byrde: He kept saying it over and over again. Manslaughter. Manslaughter...
Wendy Byrde: Why are you remembering this now?
Martin 'Marty' Byrde: And Charlotte realized it was "mans laughter". It was funny.