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Quotes from the movie The Hustler
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How much am I gonna win tonight? Ten grand, I'm gonna win ten grand in one night. Well, who's gonna beat me?...I mean, what other pool room is there in the country where a guy can walk out with ten grand in one night
Eddie Felson


He is great! Geez, that old Fat Man. Look at the way he moves, like a dancer...And those fingers, them chubby fingers. And that stroke, it's like he's uh, like he's playin' a violin or somethin'.
Eddie Felson


You know, I gotta hunch, Fat Man. I've gotta hunch it's me from here-on in...I mean, did that ever happen to you? When all of a sudden, you feel like you can't miss? 'Cause I dreamed about this game, Fat Man. And I dreamed about this game every night on the road...You know, this is my table, man, I own it...
Eddie Felson


This guy told me when I came to the big city, I'd have to have a machine gun, so I bought one.
Eddie Felson


I'm gonna beat that Fat Man, with that curly hair and those diamond rings and that carnation.
Eddie Felson


With that fifteen hundred, I could have beat him. That's all I needed Charlie...You'd love to keep me hustlin' for ya, huh, wouldn't ya? I mean, a couple more years with me scufflin' around, in them little towns and those back alleys, you might make yourself enough to get a little pool room back in Oakland - six tables and a handbook on the side...Lay down and die by yourself.
Eddie Felson


Boy! Everybody, everybody wants a piece of me
Eddie Felson


Maybe I'm not such a high-class piece of property right now. But that twenty-five percent slice of somethin' big is better than a hundred percent slice of nothin'.
Eddie Felson


Two ships that pass in the night should always buy each other breakfast.
Sarah Packard


I'm a college girl, two days a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays, I go to college...I'm the emancipated type, real emancipated...I've got nothing else to do on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Sarah Packard


Please, please, you're too hungry.
Sarah Packard


When I'm drunk, I lie...Look, I've got troubles and I think maybe you've got troubles. Maybe it'd be better if we just leave each other alone.
Sarah Packard


I've been living here almost three years. Now in three days, it seems as if I know everybody. I pass people on the street. I want to stop them and say, 'Listen, I got a fella.'
Sarah Packard


We have a contract of depravity. All we have to do is pull the blinds down.
Sarah Packard


I'm not drunk. I'm lame.
Sarah Packard


...you start drinking whiskey gambling - it gives you an excuse for losing. That's something you don't need, an excuse for losing.
Bert Gordon


James Findlay is a very rich man. His grandfather left him twenty-five percent of his tobacco company...He's a gentleman. Gentlemen gamble. He gets his kicks playin' a hustler. He's got an old Southern mansion with a pool table in the basement, drinks eight year-old bourbon, smokes a hawk-tipped cigarette...I never saw him play. They say he's one of the best...I've got confidence in Findlay...That means I've got confidence that he's a loser, all the way a loser. You happen to be about only one-half loser, the other half winner.
Bert Gordon


James Findlay is a very rich man. His grandfather left him twenty-five percent of his tobacco company...He's a gentleman. Gentlemen gamble. He gets his kicks playin' a hustler. He's got an old Southern mansion with a pool table in the basement, drinks eight year-old bourbon, smokes a hawk-tipped cigarette...I never saw him play. They say he's one of the best...I've got confidence in Findlay...That means I've got confidence that he's a loser, all the way a loser. You happen to be about only one-half loser, the other half winner.
Bert Gordon


It will be a lot of laughs. Findlay's parties are famous. He invites everybody from top to bottom. From high society to every town hustler and tramp in town. It's another way he has of getting his kicks. It excites him to be around what he calls the criminal type. Some men are like that. Some women too
Bert Gordon


I didn't ask him, 'Can he beat ya?' I already know he can beat ya. I asked him, 'Will he?' To Eddie, that's two different things.
Bert Gordon


She come in here Eddie and asked me for a drink. I give her one. We had a few more. Eddie, she came in here.
Bert Gordon


Take your boy and go home. Fats don't need your money. There's no way you can beat him. Nobody's beat him in fifteen years. He's the best in the country.
Big John


We were partners. We were more than partners.
Charlie Burns


I quit, Eddie. I can't beat you...You've got yourself a pool player.
Minnesota Fats


This fellow here bears a striking resemblance to you. It seems as though you might have modeled for the artist.
James Findlay