Gambling quotes

“Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker. Guys around here will tell ya, you play for a living, it's like any other job. You don't gamble, you grind it out. Your goal is to win one big bet an hour, that's it.”
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

“- Jamaal: Lee Harvey, what's the diameter of a chicken egg?
- Lee Harvey: 4.08 centimeters.
- Jamaal: No, no, what's that in inches?
- Lee Harvey: 1.61, man, what the fuck you gettin' at, man?
- Jamaal: I got ten bucks saying I can squeeze a chicken egg up his ass without it breaking.”
Anthony Anderson - Jamaal
Mongo Brownlee - Lee Harvey

“In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.”
Robert De Niro - Sam "Ace" Rothstein

“- Frank Hopkins: I'm not a gambling man.
- Sheik Riyadh: Quite the contrary. You are gambling with your very life!”
Viggo Mortensen - Frank Hopkins
Omar Sharif - Sheikh Riyadh

“Always bet on black.”
Jürgen Prochnow - Wolfgang von Wolfhaus

“When was the last time you lost betting on me? Never. I'm probably the best investment your bank ever made.”

John Travolta - Jan Schlichtmann

“Lady, you can't cheat at bingo. If you could, I would, but you can't. I won because I was lucky - lucky to wind up in a town full of losers!”

Earl Pastko - Mr. Skin (a.k.a. Satan)

“- Dainty: What else you betting with Baise?
- Basie: My LIFE.”

Ben Stiller - Dainty
John Malkovich - Basie

“- Monfriez: I play poker. Do you want to know a poker secret, sir?
- Nat Serlin: Always.
- Monfriez: Find out what the people you are playing against are interested in, and pretend you're interested in it, too. They start running off at the mouth and don't pay no attention to their cards.”
Lou Diamond Phillips - Monfriez
Denzel Washington - Nat Serling

“You're the only man whoever bet on a horse that started from a kneeling position.”
Colleen Camp - Rhonda Shand

“- Mike: What'd you do, win again?
- George: That's right. If you wanna win the hand, you've gotta stay in 'til the end.”
Joe Mantegna - Mike
Ricky Jay - George

“- Jack: Betting money on terminal cases? Even Manson would call bullshit on this freak show! Get out of here! God!
- Dorff: Free country! Love it or leave it!”
Steve Zahn - Jack
Jay Leggett - Dorff

“We bet that there is a God.”

Ralph Fiennes - Oscar Hopkins

“- Rita Robbins: I just need to find out how much he really loves me.
- Master Sergeant Stan Sowicki: He loves you plenty.
- Rita Robbins: More than he loves Las Vegas?
- Master Sergeant Stan Sowicki: That's asking a lot.”

Glenne Headly - Rita Robbins
Steve Kehela - Master Sergeant Stan Sowicki

“- Annie: Sorry, ladies, read 'em and weep [Annie spreads out a full house. The Older Girls groan].
- Annie: So... that's-it... no other takers?
- Little Kid: You've already tooken everybody...
- Hallie: [A crisp new five dollar bill floats on to the cot] Not everybody.”

Lindsay Lohan - Annie James
Lindsay Lohan - Hallie Parker

“I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence.”
Hugo Weaving - V

“You are confusing bets and marriages, madame. One must always honor a bet.”
Colin Firth - Valmont

“- Nick Butler: I've never seen such luck!
- Lee Donley: Lucky in cards, unlucky in love.”
James Cagney - Nick Butler
Ann Sheridan - Lee Donley

“I'm a millionaire! That's the difference. I lose 80 I get another 80. For me it doesn't matter.”
Christopher Walken - Mike

“- Investigator #1: You've got a gambling problem, right?
- Dan Mahowny: No... No, sir.
- Investigator #1: Come on. You didn't get a buzz out of it?
- Dan Mahowny: I have a... financial problem. A shortfall.”
Alex Poch-Goldin - Investigator #1
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Dan Mahowny

“That's the bet, Mr. Norris. You get the girl, you get the gold watch, you get everything. Or you get a lot of straight time in Rahway Prison.”
Kenneth McMillan - Cressner

“- Marty: Come on, Griswold, You think that sign is there to hold the table down?
- Clark Griswold: What can I do with five dollars?
- Marty: Gee, I don't know. Buy a bullet and rent a gun?”

Wallace Shawn - Marty
Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold

“- Beaudray Demerille: The bet's fifty dollars, pal.
- Slade - Card Hustler: You gotta honor my marker.
- Beaudray Demerille: I wouldn't honor your mama.”
Peter Fonda - Beaudray Demerille
Larry Golden - Slade - Card Hustler

“- Doreen Carter: Mom said you were a gambler.
- Jack Carter: Isn't that illegal?
- Doreen Carter: Are you a bookie?
- Jack Carter: Bookie? No, more like... like a financial adjuster.”
Rachael Leigh Cook - Doreen
Sylvester Stallone - Jack Carter

“Casinos have house rules: they don't like to lose. So you never show that you're counting cards. That is the cardinal sin, Ray.”
Tom Cruise - Charlie Babbitt