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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

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.

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.

On the Internet, gambling and paying with credit cards--which doesn't really feel like you are handing out that $20 bill--is a powerful mix. You think, ?What's $20 on my credit card? I will pay it off.' Next thing you know it is $50, then $100 and then you don't care how much you spend. You're focused on winning it back.

On the act of gambling i admit, i am known to occasionally do so, but only when its a sure thing, and if its not, then i make it so.

Only the Justice Department believes online gambling is illegal.

I was re-watching 'E.T.' recently, and that scene where they're all around the pizza, bringing the pizza in, and gambling and stuff together, it's such an amazing tone, it's so rough, and nobody's really talking about anything, and it feels like you're in that room with them.

Nobody wants to go to the bank with profits earned turning teens into gambling addicts and that is why the bill has earned such broad bipartisan support in both houses.

If these gambling websites lose a time window for betting, they are done. That makes it easier for attackers to hit the sites at the worst possible moment.

I don't know why I'm being attracted to gambling considering I don't do it myself very often. Just because I personally don't partake so much doesn't mean that I can't be an advocate for it if people do indulge in it because it's entertainment.

Legalized sports gambling in Nevada serves a very important function of providing a watch over fixed games. There's no question about that.

Mobile gaming is the next step of gambling technology because it allows the patron to gamble when he or she wants in the appropriate areas of the casino. There is an entire generation that has grown up with mobile devices. People like to do what they want on their own terms. That's what mobile gaming allows.

Most people think of online gambling websites when they think of DoS attacks, however all businesses need to realise that they could easily be attacked through email,

Mr. DeLay has not taken any gambling money. He doesn't believe in taking money from gambling interests.

Many of California's gambling laws were written in the 19th Century, and some of them need to be modernized.

Many of the amendments to the gambling bills have gone to him as well, so it just stands to reason he would get this bill.

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!

Leftist big-government policies have been disastrous for black America just as they were in the countries that most Hispanics emigrated from. But like the gambling addict who keeps gambling the more he loses, those addicted to government entitlements keep increasing the size of the government even as their situation worsens.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

The world is the house of the strong.

I can tell you that gambling was never an issue in our locker room. J.R. (Jeremy Roenick) admitted he was gambling. That guy makes a lot of money, but that doesn't make it right.

Fueled by a poker craze, the growth of broadband, and television coverage, online gambling is quickly moving to the mainstream.

Given the self awareness required, it therefore makes sense the primary tool used by the casino to control problem gambling is the self-exclusion policy. The regulations, as they stand, do not appear to require more.

If all these people are betting all this money, they have found other ways to deposit funds into their accounts at internet gambling sites. If that many Americans enjoy this activity, nothing Congress can do will stop them.

If anyone looks at this at all, they'll see this is about an illegal activity and not a legalized slots parlor. And the NHL's position is very clear. The league is against gambling on hockey. A slots parlor is about a gaming operation involving slots.

From the governors to state legislators to mayors and city council members, every individual political leader tasked with rebuilding their state and communities will tell you the Gulf Coast's recovery is directly linked with the full recovery of the gambling industry,