Jeff Goldblum: Lionel Whitney

Quotes 

• Lionel Whitney : Of course you know this is a federal building and that you're committing a federal crime on federal property and that the forces of the federal government will be brought to bear against you.

  Victor Gardenia : I'm not interested in jurisdictional prerogatives. I'm only interested in what I want, nothing else. I what I want right now is for you to get in that Sedan.

• Lionel Whitney : How can you think of yourself at a time like this? They've kidnapped your wife.

  Marty Boxx : Come on, I met the old broad once. You think she's worried about my nose?

  Marty Boxx : How dare you speak of her in that manner? She's a countess of the imperial house of Romanov, the fact that she's also a cleaning lady doesn't give you the license to...

  Marty Boxx : [interrupting]  Hey! Hey, hold the phone. What are you talking about? Cleaning lady?

  Lionel Whitney : That's right, and the best there is, too.

  Marty Boxx : [louder]  Cleaning lady?

  [to Tenspeed] 

  Marty Boxx : You married me off to a cleaning lady for a quarter of a million dollars?