Quotes
The Social Network
Back to The Social NetworkQuotes
Dialogue
Gage: Mr. Zuckerberg, do I have your full attention? Mark Zuckerberg: [stares out the window] No. Gage: Do you think I deserve it? Mark Zuckerberg: [looks at the lawyer] What? Gage: Do you think I deserve your full attention? Mark Zuckerberg: I had to swear an oath before we began this deposition, and I don't want to perjure myself, so I have a legal obligation to say no. Gage: Okay – no. You don't think I deserve your attention. Mark Zuckerberg: I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try, but there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention – you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing. [pauses] Did I adequately answer your condescending question?
Dialogue
Parker: You know this is where they filmed Towering Inferno. Zuckerberg: That's comforting.
Dialogue
Gretchen: Eduardo, spring break, you and Mr. Zuckerberg took a trip to New York. Saverin: Yes. Gretchen: What was the purpose of the trip? Saverin: Well, as CFO, I had set up some meetings with potential advertisers. Gretchen: Who paid for the trip? Saverin: It was paid for out of the thousand dollar account I had set up a few months earlier. Gretchen: At this point, your thousand dollars was the only money that had been put into the company? Saverin: Yes. Gretchen: How did you feel the meetings went. Saverin: They went terribly. Gretchen: Why? Saverin: Mark was asleep. Zuckerburg: I was not asleep. Saverin: Can I rephrase my answer? I wish he'd been asleep.
Dialogue
Amy (Amelia Ritter): What do you do? Sean Parker: I'm an entrepreneur. Amy: You're unemployed. Sean Parker: I wouldn't say that. Amy: What would you say? Sean Parker: That I'm an entrepreneur. Amy: Well what was your latest "preneur"? Sean Parker: Well, I founded an Internet company that let folks download and share music for free. Amy: Kind of like Napster? Sean Parker: Exactly like Napster. Amy: What do you mean? Sean Parker: I founded Napster. Amy: Sean Parker founded Napster. Sean Parker: Nice to meet you. Amy: [stunned] You're Sean Parker? Sean Parker: Aha! You see, the shoe is on the other... Amy: Foot? Sean Parker: Table. Which has turned. Amy: I just slept with Sean Parker? Sean Parker: You just slept on Sean Parker.
Dialogue
Cameron Winklevoss: [about Mark] What, do you want to hire an IP lawyer and sue him? Divya Narendra: No, I want to hire the Sopranos to beat the shit out of him with a hammer! Tyler Winklevoss: We don't even have to do that. Cameron Winklevoss: That's right. Tyler Winklevoss: We can do that ourselves. I'm 6'5", 220, and there's two of me.
Dialogue
Mark Zuckerberg: I went to my friend for the money because that's who I wanted to be partners with. Eduardo was the president of the Harvard Investors Association, and he was also my best friend. Gage: Your best friend is suing you for $600 million. Mark Zuckerberg: [Sarcastically] I didn't know that, tell me more.
Dialogue
Eduardo Saverin: You don't think it's strange that he {Sean} was followed by private detectives? Mark Zuckerberg: Who came up with nothing. Eduardo Saverin: Enough to get him out of the company. The drugs, the girls. Mark Zuckerberg: We don't know any of that's true. Eduardo Saverin: You can read about it. Mark Zuckerberg: I can read about you torturing birds. Since when did you-- Eduardo Saverin: [Livid] OK, DON'T FISH EAT OTHER FISH?! THE MARLINS AND THE TROUT?!! Dustin Moskovitz: What's he talking about?
Dialogue
Gretchen: Eighteen thousand dollars? Eduardo Saverin: Yes. Gretchen: In addition to the one thousand dollars you'd already put up. Eduardo Saverin: Yes. Gretchen: A total of nineteen thousand dollars, now. Eduardo Saverin: Yes. Mark Zuckerberg: Hang on. Mark Zuckerberg: I'm just checking your math on that. [sarcastic pause] Yes, I got the same thing.
Dialogue
Eduardo Saverin: [About Sean Parker] I don't want that guy representing himself as a part of this company. Mark Zuckerberg: You gotta move out here, Wardo; this is where its all happening. Eduardo Saverin: Did you hear what I just said? Mark Zuckerberg: The connections, the energy-- Eduardo Saverin: Mark, you gotta-- Mark Zuckerberg: [Interrupting] I'm afraid if you don't come out here, you're gonna get left behind. I want... I need you out here. [Embarrassed] Please don't tell him {Sean} I said that. Eduardo Saverin: What did you just say? Mark Zuckerberg: It's moving faster than any of us ever imagined it would. It's moving fast. Eduardo Saverin: What did you mean? Mark Zuckerberg: And Sean thinks we have... Eduardo Saverin: [Interrupting] Sean's not a part of this company. Mark Zuckerberg: We have over 300,000 members Wardo... Eduardo Saverin: I'm aware of that. Mark Zuckerberg: ...and we're in 160 schools, including five in Europe. Eduardo Saverin: [Getting angry] I'm aware of that
Dialogue
Christy Lee: When did you get back? Eduardo Saverin: You scared me. I need you to knock. Christy Lee: [Sternly] When did you get back? Eduardo Saverin: I got back this afternoon. Christy Lee: And when were you going to call me? Eduardo Saverin: Chris, it was kind of a rough trip and I was tired and... Christy Lee: Or answer one of my 47 texts? Did you know I sent 47 texts? Eduardo Saverin: I did, and I thought that was incredibly normal behavior. Christy Lee: Are you mocking me? Eduardo Saverin: I brought you a present. Christy Lee: Why does your status say "single" on your Facebook page? Eduardo Saverin: What? Christy Lee: Why does your relationship status say "single" on your Facebook page?! Eduardo Saverin: I was single when I set up the page. Christy Lee: And you somehow never bothered to change it? Eduardo Saverin: I – Christy Lee: [looks at him sternly] What? Eduardo Saverin: I don't know how. Christy Lee: Do I look stupid to you? Eduardo Saverin: No. Calm down. Christy Lee
Dialogue
Eduardo Saverin: Mark. Mark! Sean Parker: He's wired in. Eduardo Saverin: I'm sorry? Sean Parker: He's wired in. Eduardo Saverin: Is he? Sean Parker: Yes. Eduardo Saverin: How 'bout now? Still "wired in"?! Sean Parker: Call security. Eduardo Saverin: You issued 24 million new shares of stock?! Mark Zuckerberg: You-- You were told that if new investors came along-- Eduardo Saverin: How much were your shares diluted? [Points to Sean] How much were his? Gretchen: What was Mr. Zuckerberg's ownership share diluted down to? Eduardo Saverin: It wasn't. Gretchen: What was Mr. Moskovitz's ownership share diluted down to? Eduardo Saverin: It wasn't. Gretchen: What was Sean Parker's ownership share diluted down to? Eduardo Saverin: It wasn't. Gretchen: What was Peter Thiel's ownership share diluted down to? Eduardo Saverin: It wasn't. Gretchen: And what was your ownership share diluted down to? Eduardo Saverin: .03 percent. Mark Zuckerberg: You signed the papers. Eduardo Saverin: [on the verge of
Dialogue
Mark Zuckerberg: I'm not a bad guy. Marylin Delpy: I know that. When there's emotional testimony, I assume that 85% of it is exaggeration. Mark Zuckerberg: And the other 15? Marylin Delpy: Perjury. Creation myths need a Devil.
Dialogue
Marylin Delpy: What are you doing? Mark Zuckerberg: Checking in to see how it's going in Bosnia. Marylin Delpy: Bosnia. They don't have roads, but they have Facebook. [pause] You must really hate the Winklevosses. Mark Zuckerberg: I don't hate anybody. The "Winklevii" aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, things didn't go exactly the way they were supposed to for them.
Dialogue
Sean Parker: You think you know me, don't you? Eduardo Saverin: I've read enough. Sean Parker: You know how much I've read about you? [whispers] Nothing.