Gambling quotes

“Okay, you and the rest of your basteges can gamble, but don't try no fargin tricks, otherwise you wind up with you bells in a sling.”
Richard Dimitri - Roman Troy Moronie

“- Jack Manfred: Gambling's not about money... gambling's about not facing reality, ignoring the odds.
- Marion Nell: I must be a fool, I never think about the odds.”
Clive Owen - Jack Manfred
Gina McKee - Marion Nell

“- Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum: Atchley do you realize that several Marines were killed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor while taking craps?
- Col. Virgil Hedgepath: No, sir.”
Robert Duvall - Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum
Paul Mantee - Col. Virgil Hedgepath

“The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like...” (continue)(continue reading)

Robert De Niro - Sam "Ace" Rothstein

“- Looney: I'm sure glad I didn't bet.
- Jay Trotter: You didn't bet?
- Looney: I would have had a heart attack.”
David Johansen - Looney
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Jay Trotter

“- Esther Bilchik: What's this?
- Harvey Bilchik: Oh, it's the deed to channel 62. I won it with a pair of 7s. I was bluffing.
- Esther Bilchik: Channel 62? Never heard of it.
- Harvey Bilchik: I'm not surprised. More people watch the fish tank at Leo's pet store.”
Sue Ane Langdon - Esther Bilchik
Stanley Brock - Harvey Bilchik

“Why gamble with money when you can gamble with people's lives?”
Richard Tiffany Gere - Martin Vail

It's all numbers, the croupier thought. Spin of the wheel, turn of the card, time of your life, date of your birth, year of your death. In "The Book of Numbers" the Lord said: "Thou shall count thy steps".

Clive Owen - Jack Manfred

“- Dick Jones: Delta City begins construction in two months. That's two million workers living in trailers. That means drugs, gambling, prostitution - virgin territory for the man who knows how to open up new markets. One man could control it all, Clarence.
- Clarence J. Boddicker: Well, I guess we're gonna be friends after all... Richard.”
Ronny Cox - Dick Jones
Kurtwood Smith - Clarence J. Boddicker

“There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese.”

Jay Tarses - Coach Finstock

“Pick a number? ! I'm great at that! Coin toss!! Eddie, these are my games!!”

Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold

“Let me tell you a story. Two men need an organ transplant, but there's only one organ. So they play a game. They each put a card in their pocket. Whoever can guess the other's card wins the organ.”
Anthony Chau-Sang Wong - SP Wong Chi Shing

- Worm: You know what always cheers me up, when I'm feeling shitty?
- Mike McDermott: No, what's that?
- Worm: Rolled up aces over kings. Check-raising stupid tourists and taking huge pots off of them. Playing all-night high-limit Hold'em at the Taj, "where the sand turns to gold". Stacks and towers of checks I can't even see over.

Edward Norton - Worm
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

“- Lou Peckinpaugh: You can pay, of course.
- Paul DuChard: Ah, monsieur, we, we're not wealthy people. We lost over four million francs betting on the war.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Who'd you have?
- Marcel: We took France - at eight to five.”
Peter Falk - Lou Peckinpaugh
Fernando Lamas - Paul DuChard

“- Assistant Casino Manager: You seem to be having quite a run. Is there anything we can do for you?
- Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko: Yes, go down to your vault and tell the rest of your money to be patient, we'll be together soon.”
Ursula Burton - Assistant Casino Manager
Steve Martin - Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko

“- Joe Hallenbeck: Ratings are down. So you're gonna bribe some senators to legalize gambling.
- Sheldon Marcone: Legalize sports gambling. You see, with all the heroes gone, legalized gambling is about the only thing that'll save the beast.”
Bruce Willis - Joe Hallenbeck
Noble Willingham - Sheldon Marcone

In "Confessions of a Winning Poker Player", Jack King said, "Few players recall big pots they have won, strange as it seems, but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career". It seems true to me, cause walking in here, I can hardly remember how I built my bankroll, but I can't stop thinking of how... (continue)(continue reading)
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

“- Ouisa Kittredge: Answer me! How much of your life...
- Flan Kittredge: ...my life can I account for? All of it! I am a gambler.
- Ouisa Kittredge: We're a terrible match.”
Stockard Channing - Ouisa
Donald Sutherland - Flan

“I only got one rule. And that's never bet money that you don't have on a dog race with an ex-girlfriend who happens to be a stripper.”
Cheech Marin - Romeo Posar

“There's illegal gambling going on inside that truck!”
Terence Hill - Policeman Dave Speed

“I may faint. Don't worry. We got full medical coverage. I'll be ok.”

Robbie Coltrane - Ticket Seller

“- Ed Hocken: You sure know your boxing.
- Lt. Frank Drebin: All I know is never bet on the white guy.”
George Kennedy - Ed Hocken
Leslie William Nielsen - Frank Drebin

“- Patty: If you know an answer, Chuck, and I don't, you tell me what it is. If I know an answer and you don't, I'll tell you what it is.
- Charlie Brown: What happens if neither of us knows the answer?
- Patty: We'll punt!”
Roseline Rubens - Patty
Arrin Skelley - Charlie Brown

“Why do you think the same five guys make it to the final table of the World Series of Poker every year? What, are they the luckiest guys in Las Vegas? It's a skill game Jo.”

Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

“- Card Player #2: I didn't know you were the Sundance Kid when I said you were cheating. If I draw on you, you'll kill me.
- The Sundance Kid: There's that possibility.”

Sam Elliott - Card Player #2
Robert Redford - The Sundance Kid