Gambling quotes

“Never welsh on a bet.”
Ray Liotta - Harry Collins

“- Hal: I bet on horses sometimes, but I don't really care about the money.
- Rosemary: I never read that book.
- Hal: What book?
- Rosemary: Things losers say.”
Jack Black - Hal
Gwyneth Paltrow - Rosemary

“You're going to have to earn it, and once you earn it, you're going to have to fight me for it. You're going to have to challenge me, you're going to rip it out of me that's how you get ahead with me.”

Al Pacino - Walter

- Sam "Ace" Rothstein: Three fuckin' jackpots in 20 minutes? Why didn't you pull the machines? Why didn't you call me?
- Don Ward: Well, it happened so quick, 3 guys won; I didn't have a chance...
- Sam "Ace" Rothstein: You didn't see the scam? You didn't see what was going on?
- Don Ward: Well, there's no way to determine that...
- Sam "Ace"... (continue)(continue reading)
Robert De Niro - Sam "Ace" Rothstein
John Bloom - Don Ward

“Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them. ”
Jerry Lewis

“Ethan Hunt is a gambler. And one day his luck will run out, and thousands of innocent people will pay the price. Which one of us will be the villain then?”
Sean Harris - Lane

“- Cynthia Rose: I have a confession to make.
- Fat Amy: We all know where this is going. Lesbi-honest.
- Cynthia Rose: This is hard for me to admit to you guys, but for the past two years, I have had a serious gambling problem.
- Fat Amy: What?
- Cynthia Rose: It all started when I broke up with my girlfriend.
- Fat Amy: Whomp, there it is!”
Ester Dean - Cynthia Rose
Rebel Wilson - Fat Amy

“I know more about casino security than any man alive, I invented it, and it cannot be beaten. They got cameras, they got locks, they got watchers, they got timers, they got vaults, they got enough armed personnel to occupy Paris!”
Elliott Gould - Reuben Tishkoff

“- Sidney Deane: Loan me a twenty.
- Junior: Come on Sid, do I look like Bank of America?
- Sidney Deane: You think I'm going to lose this money to this white boy?
- Junior: You better not lose my money to this white boy he's a visitor we're the home team baby.
- Sidney Deane: This here is a black thing, so give me twenty dollars so I can run...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kadeem Hardison - Junior
Wesley Snipes - Sidney Deane

“It's true I have a lot of friends in politics, but they wouldn't be so friendly if they knew my business was drugs instead of gambling which they consider a harmless vice. But drugs, that's a dirty business.”
Marlon Brando - Don Vito Corleone

“Gamblers are never happy, Charlie.”
Vic Tayback - Carface

“I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.”
Adam Sandler

“- Cinna: I'm not allowed to bet, but if I could, I'd bet on you.
- Katniss Everdeen: Thank you.”
Lenny Kravitz - Cinna
Jennifer Lawrence - Katniss Everdeen

“- Frank Hopkins: Only fools or gamblers walk behind a stange mare, Sheikh! You can believe that.
- Sheik Riyadh: Is that a passage from the Bible?”
Viggo Mortensen - Frank Hopkins
Omar Sharif - Sheikh Riyadh

“Around the country the bookies pay off winners at track odds. It's dangerous when a long shot comes in. Unless you have somebody at the tracks to lower those odds.”
Martin Scorsese - Opening Voice-Over

“Most gamblers, when they go to gamble, they go to win. When we go to gamble, we go to lose. Even when we win it's just a matter of time before we give it all back.”
Al Pacino - Walter

“- Nina: Hey, wait a minute there's something fishy going on here! You know, in a couple minutes we're going to be naked, and then what?
- Richie: Then we play one more hand.”

Karen Allen - Nina
Ken Wahl - Richie

“The Vietnam War was fought over a bet that Howard Hughes lost to Aristotle Onassis.”
Mel Gibson - Jerry Fletcher

“Everyone gambles. They may call it something else, like the stock market, or real estate. But make no mistake, if you're risking something, you're gambling. And if you're gambling, then I'm the guy you want to see.”
Justin Timberlake - Richie Furst

“You know, the last one of these guys shot himself in the head playing Russian-Roulette in a bar.”

Sam Shepard - Garrison

“- Time Lincoln: You know, I don't advertise this, but I can bring him back to life.
- Master Shake: Ha ha! Yeah right! I bet you can't!
- Time Lincoln: Oh yeah? How much you wanna bet, bro?”

Fred Armisen - Time Lincoln
Dana Snyder - Master Shake

“Before I ever ran a casino or got myself blown up, Ace Rothstein was a hell of a handicapper, I can tell you that. I was so good that when I bet, I can change the odds for every bookmaker in the country. I'm serious. I had it down so cold that I was given paradise on earth. I was given one of the biggest casinos in Las Vegas to run: The Tangiers...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert De Niro - Sam "Ace" Rothstein

“- Etta Place: Sundance says it's because you're a soft touch, and always taking expensive vacations, and buying drinks for everyone, and you're a rotten gambler.
- Butch Cassidy: Well that might have something to do with it.”

Katharine Ross - Etta Place
Paul Newman - Butch Cassidy

“- Psychologist: How would you rate the thrill you got from gambling, on a scale of one to 100?
- Dan Mahowny: Um... hundred.
- Psychologist: And what about the biggest thrill you've ever had outside of gambling?
- Dan Mahowny: Twenty.”
Eric Fink - Psychologist
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Dan Mahowny

“Stats are not enough, you need a voice! Gamblers are ready to risk what they can't afford for what they can't have. You're selling the world's rarest commodity: certainty, in an uncertain world.”
Al Pacino - Walter