Gambling Quotes

My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing.

Crime is based upon need, making money. People sell drugs to make money. But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to. There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor. There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off. If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

Don’t ever average losers. Decrease your trading volume when you are trading poorly; increase your volume when you are trading well. Never trade in situations where you don’t have control. For example, I don’t risk significant amounts of money in front of key reports, since that is gambling, not trading.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

The only difference between a winner and a loser is a winner plays until he wins

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.