The Hustler Quotes
Sarah Packard : I love you, Eddie.
Fast Eddie : You know, someday, Sarah, you're gonna settle down... you're gonna marry a college professor and you're gonna write a great book. Maybe about me. Huh? Fast Eddie Felson... hustler.
Sarah Packard : I love you.
Fast Eddie : You need the words?
Sarah Packard : Yes, I need them very much. If you ever say them I'll never let you take them back.
Fast Eddie : You know, someday, Sarah, you're gonna settle down... you're gonna marry a college professor and you're gonna write a great book. Maybe about me. Huh? Fast Eddie Felson... hustler.
Sarah Packard : I love you.
Fast Eddie : You need the words?
Sarah Packard : Yes, I need them very much. If you ever say them I'll never let you take them back.
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[ in their $3,000 game, after Minnesota Fats breaks, it's Eddie's shot ]
Fast Eddie : How should I play that one, Bert? Play it safe? That's the way you always told me to play it: safe... play the percentage. Well, here we go: fast and loose. One ball, corner pocket. Yeah, percentage players die broke, too, don't they, Bert? [ he makes the shot and the spectators applaud ]
Fast Eddie : How can I lose?
Fast Eddie : How should I play that one, Bert? Play it safe? That's the way you always told me to play it: safe... play the percentage. Well, here we go: fast and loose. One ball, corner pocket. Yeah, percentage players die broke, too, don't they, Bert? [ he makes the shot and the spectators applaud ]
Fast Eddie : How can I lose?
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Fast Eddie : The pool game is over when Fats says it's over... I came after him and I'm gonna get him. I'm going with him all the way.
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Fast Eddie : No bar?
Cashier : No bar, no pinball machines, no bowling alleys, just pool... nothing else. This is Ames, mister.
Cashier : No bar, no pinball machines, no bowling alleys, just pool... nothing else. This is Ames, mister.
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Fast Eddie : Fats, let's you and me shoot a game of straight pool.
Minnesota Fats : Hundred dollars?
Fast Eddie : Well, you shoot big time pool, Fats. I mean, that's what everybody says: you shoot big time pool. Let's make it $200 a game.
Minnesota Fats : Now I know why they call you Fast Eddie.
Minnesota Fats : Hundred dollars?
Fast Eddie : Well, you shoot big time pool, Fats. I mean, that's what everybody says: you shoot big time pool. Let's make it $200 a game.
Minnesota Fats : Now I know why they call you Fast Eddie.
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Bert Gordon : How's your hand?
Fast Eddie : Fine.
Bert Gordon : Good. I'd hate to think I was puttin' my money on a cripple.
Fast Eddie : Hey, whaddaya say somethin' like that for?
Sarah Packard : It's alright, Eddie. I'm sure Mr. Gordon meant no offense. It was a figure of speech.
Bert Gordon : That's right, Miss Packard.
Sarah Packard : And a fact is a fact.
Bert Gordon : Smart girl, Eddie.
Fast Eddie : Fine.
Bert Gordon : Good. I'd hate to think I was puttin' my money on a cripple.
Fast Eddie : Hey, whaddaya say somethin' like that for?
Sarah Packard : It's alright, Eddie. I'm sure Mr. Gordon meant no offense. It was a figure of speech.
Bert Gordon : That's right, Miss Packard.
Sarah Packard : And a fact is a fact.
Bert Gordon : Smart girl, Eddie.
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Fast Eddie : What if I don't pay ya, Bert?
Bert Gordon : [ laughs ] You don't pay me? You're gonna get your thumbs broken again. And your fingers. If I want 'em to, they're gonna break your right arm in three or four places.
Minnesota Fats : You better pay him, Eddie.
Fast Eddie : So you figure you're still my manager, huh?
Bert Gordon : I'm a business-man, kid.
Bert Gordon : [ laughs ] You don't pay me? You're gonna get your thumbs broken again. And your fingers. If I want 'em to, they're gonna break your right arm in three or four places.
Minnesota Fats : You better pay him, Eddie.
Fast Eddie : So you figure you're still my manager, huh?
Bert Gordon : I'm a business-man, kid.
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Fast Eddie : Boy, you better, you tell your boys they better kill me, Bert. They better go all the way with me, 'cause if they just bust me up, I'll put all those pieces back together again, then so help me... So help me God, Bert, I'm gonna come back here and I'm gonna kill you.
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Fast Eddie : [ reading ] We have a contract of depravity; all we have to do is pull a blind down.
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