Gambling Quotations

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

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

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

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.

No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.

I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

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.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

The best part about poker is there's no down side.

It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.

Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

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

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across.

Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport is a tiger and buffalo fight, reserved for rare occasions, however, on account of its expense. Cock-fighting is a source of gigantic gambling and desperate feuds.

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

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

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

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'

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

The people who want to push for the end of legalized sports gambling in Nevada would be encouraging the crooks. And they would be counterproductive to what they want to accomplish.

We felt it was best to restrict the amount of gambling to areas where it is already present.

We're gambling with other things in the environment or genes or both, ... The fact that Jennings smoked for a long period of time increased his risk of getting lung cancer. How much that risk was dissipated by stopping for 20 years I don't know, but it was obviously not entirely.

Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.

Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.

Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.

We're seeing a lot of good kids with gambling problems.

I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up.

You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Man is a gaming animal.

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

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.

I knew a guy who had $5 million and owned his house free and clear. But he wanted to make a bit more money to support his spending, so at the peak of the internet bubble he was selling puts on internet stocks. He lost all of his money and his house and now works in a restaurant. It's not a smart thing for the country to legalize gambling [in the stock market] and make it very accessible.

Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

No horse can go as fast as the money you put on it.

Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ...It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society and...that's the young and the poor.