Billy Ray Quotes in Trading Places (1983)

[last lines]

Louis: Looking good, Billy Ray!

Billy Ray: Feeling good, Louis!

Billy Ray: [Sitting in a jacuzzi] Hey, bubbles, man! Say man, when I was growing up, if we wanted a jacuzzi, we had to fart in the tub.

Billy Ray: No thanks, guys, I already had breakfast this morning.

Mortimer Duke: This is not a *meal*, Valentine. We are here to TRY to explain to you what is we do here.

Randolph Duke: We are 'commodities brokers', William. Now, what are commodities? Commodities are agricultural products... like coffee that you had for breakfast... wheat, which is used to make bread... pork bellies, which is used to make bacon, which you might find in a 'bacon and lettuce and tomato' sandwich.

[Billy Ray turns and gives a long look at the camera]

Randolph Duke: Randolph

[continuing]

Randolph Duke: And then there are other commodities, like frozen orange juice... and GOLD. Though, of course, gold doesn't grow on trees like oranges.

[chuckles]

Randolph Duke: Clear so far?

Billy Ray: [nodding, smiling] Yeah.

Randolph Duke: Good, William! Now, some of our clients are speculating that the price of gold will rise in the future. And we have other clients who are speculating that the price of gold will fall. They place their orders with us, and we buy or sell their gold for them.

Mortimer Duke: Tell him the good part.

Randolph Duke: The good part, William, is that, no matter whether our clients make money or lose money, Duke & Duke get the commissions.

Mortimer Duke: Well? What do you think, Valentine?

Billy Ray: Sounds to me like you guys a couple of bookies.

Randolph Duke: [chuckling, patting Billy Ray on the back] I told you he'd understand.

Billy Ray: [posing as "Nenge Mboko," an exchange student from Cameroon] Merry New Year!

Beeks: That's "happy." In this country we say "Happy New Year."

Billy Ray: Oh, ho, ho, thank you for correcting my English which stinks!

Billy Ray: So, I heard you turned 80 today.

Norman: Is that what you heard?

Billy Ray: Yeah. Man, that's really old.

Norman: You should meet my father.

Billy Ray: Your father's still alive?

Norman: No, but you should meet him.

Norman: You like that word, don't you? Bullshit.

Billy Ray: Yeah

Norman: It's a good word

Billy Ray: A canoe! Just like the Indians used.

Norman: Actually, the Indians used a different grade of aluminum.

Billy Ray: [after his father and Chelsea left] I might not stick around here. I might just haul my ass up to Wyoming, Puerto Rico, one of those places. Listen, I know I'm just being dumped here. Just like my middle name. You turkeys don't want me.

Norman: [quietly, yet emphatically] Bullshit. I'm sixty-seven years older than you. How do you know what I want?