Probability quotes

“Now you're insulting my intelligence; what you think I am, a fuckin' idiot? You know goddamn well that someone had to get into those machines and set those fuckin' reels. The probability of one four-reel machine is a million and a half to one; the probability of three machines in a row; it's in the billions! It cannot happen, would not happen,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Robert De Niro - Sam "Ace" Rothstein

“May the odds be ever in your favor.”
Jennifer Lawrence - Katniss Everdeen

“I was the logical choice. It calculated that I had a 45% chance of survival. Sarah only had an 11% chance. That was somebody's baby. 11% is more than enough. A human being would've known that.”

Will Smith - Del Spooner

“Things go wrong. The odds catch up. Probability is like gravity: you cannot negotiate with gravity. One day... one day you should just cash out, you know? Just cash out and get out.”
Colin Farrell - Sonny Crockett

“- Murph (10 Yrs.): Why did you and mom name me after something that's bad?
- Cooper: Well, we didn't.
- Murph (10 Yrs.): Murphy's law?
- Cooper: Murphy's law doesn't mean that something bad will happen. It means that whatever can happen, will happen. And that sounded just fine to us.”
Mackenzie Foy - Murph (10 Yrs.)
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“Embrace the probability of your imminent death, and know in your heart that there's nothing I can do to save you.”
Woody Harrelson - Haymitch Abernathy

“All I'm saying is... that whore thing could be a real possibility. Some of my best friends are whores.”

Jay Chandrasekhar - Barry Badrinath

“- Albert Einstein: Are you thinking what I am thinking?
- Ed Walters: Well what would be the odds of that happening?”
Walter Matthau - Albert Einstein
Tim Robbins - Ed Walters

“Chances are there's still a chance.”
Sanaa Lathan - Monica Wright

“- Katniss Everdeen: How many times is your name in today?
- Gale Hawthorne: Forty-two. Guess the odds aren't exactly in my favor.”

Jennifer Lawrence - Katniss Everdeen
Liam Hemsworth - Gale Hawthorne

“He's a monster. Pure psychopath. So rare to capture one alive. From a research point of view, Lecter is our most prized asset.”
Anthony Heald - Dr. Frederick Chilton

“- Vesper Lynd: So you're telling me its a matter of probability and chance. I was worried there wasn't chance involved.
- James Bond: Well, usually the player with the best hand wins.”
Eva Green - Vesper Lynd
Daniel Craig - James Bond

“Even an improbability drive needs coordinates which I happen to have.”
John Malkovich - Humma Kavula

“Doctors say that Nordberg has a 50/50 chance of living, though there's only a 10 percent chance of that.”
George Kennedy - Ed Hocken

“- Gus Green: Joe, what are the odds of you getting hit by lightning again?
- Joe Waters: Hey, Gus, what were the odds the first time I got hit? And what were the odds the second time I got hit?”
Danny Glover - Gus Green
Joe Pesci - Joe Waters

“Haven't you learned the rules of probability and outcome? Aren't you aware that every question of life and death remains a probability until the outcome?”
James Mason - Mr. Jordan

“It was an improbable romance. He was a country boy. She was from the city. She had the world at her feet, while he didn't have two dimes to rub together.”
James Garner - Duke

“There are four hundred billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If only one out of a million of those had planets, and just of out of a million of those had life, and just one out of a million of those had intelligent life; there would be literally millions of civilizations out there.”
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times...” (continue)(continue reading)
Edward Norton - The Narrator

“- Charlie: Mr. Wonka, they won't really be burned in the furnace, will they?
- Willy Wonka: Hm... well, I think that furnace is only lit every other day, so they have a good sporting chance, haven't they?”
Peter Ostrum - Charlie
Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka

“Once in a generation an athlete pits himself against such overwhelming odds that even the most jaded spectator finds himself cheering breathlessly.”
Kevin Spacey - Harry Kingsley

- Kenny Fisher: Yo, I gotta have sex tonight! I mean peep this... they say here ninety-two percent of the honeys at UCLA are sexually active. Ninety-two of the women in Los Angeles at UCLA walking around going: "class... or sex? What shall I do?" Ninety-two percent, yo! Hey, you know what that means?
- Homeboy #2: What?
- Kenny Fisher: It means... (continue)(continue reading)
Seth Green - Kenny Fisher
Robert Jayne - Homeboy #2