Atlantic City (1980)

Share this quote on facebook [about Atlantic City in the old days] Yes, it used to be beautiful - what with the rackets, whoring, guns. Sometimes, sometimes, things would happen. I'd have to kill a few people....I'd feel bad for a while, but then I'd jump into the ocean, swim way out. Come back in feelin' nice and clean, start all over again....The Atlantic Ocean was somethin' then. Yes, you should have seen the Atlantic Ocean in those days....They used to call Atlantic City 'The Lungs of Philadelphia.

Share this quote on facebook Don't touch the suit.

Share this quote on facebook I am not going to get upset.
After her husband and her pregnant sister show up to stay with her.

Share this quote on facebook After her husband and her pregnant sister show up to stay with her.

Share this quote on facebook [to Lou] You're playing with Dave's money. I'm owed it....You're buying me roses. I'm getting fired from my job, I'm supposed to sit here like some Vegas bimbo? Look Mister, I got hoods beatin' the shit out of me. If I'm gonna get beat up for money and drugs, I wanna have that money and drugs on me.

Share this quote on facebook You work for me, Lou! The cigarettes you put in your mouth, I pay for. I ring this bell and you get down here.

Share this quote on facebook Dave's got a much higher developed soul than either you or me. I mean, I've hardly been reincarnated at all, but Dave, wow, he can remember all the way back to ancient Egypt, building the pyramids and all of that. He's had some really hard lives. You know, I think he's due for a real big break in this one.

Share this quote on facebook The only difference between Christianity and Hare Krishna is, Hare Krishna is real. If Jesus was alive today, he'd be very much into Hare Krishna.

Share this quote on facebook [to Sally] You get your license to learn how to deal and the whole world will open up to you. It's not just cards, you know. It's your future. I want you to concentrate. I hate you going back to that oyster bar. The world should be your oyster...If you'd only stop being afraid. Deal with courage. You're, you're a little pearl produced by that oyster bar. Une petite perle.

Share this quote on facebook In three weeks, you'll become dealers - and you'll learn a painful truth: Everybody hates you. You stand in the way of a million dollars, the player hates you. You know enough to cheat the casino, the casino hates you. The TV camera over your head tapes your every move, and yet you are alone. The players, the floor manager, the eye in the sky, they all watch you. You alone.

Share this quote on facebook Fred O'Reilly: [to Lou] This is a family town....I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with, I can't do business with you.

Share this quote on facebook Sally: Teach me stuff.
Lou: Like what?
Sally: What you know.
Lou: You want information or wisdom?
Sally: Both.

Share this quote on facebook Dave: Who's the old guy?
Fred: You mean Lou? He used run numbers for the dinosaurs.

Share this quote on facebook Young Doctor: Mrs. Matthews, you can claim the body tomorrow.
Sally: [walking away to the exit] I don't want the body!

Share this quote on facebook Sally: Why are you doing this for me?
Lou: Hey, it's nothing, Sinatra gives wings to hospitals. We all do what we can.

Share this quote on facebook Lou: You shut up, Grace, you goddamned old lady.
Grace: If I'm an old lady, what does that make you?
Lou: I'm her lover.
Grace: Oh, ho, ho. You wanna know his nickname in the old days? Numb nuts! Men had names like 'Legs' and "Bullets' and 'Cookie.' His was 'Numb nuts!'

Share this quote on facebook Grace: [to a regnant Chrissie] You oughta fly home. I'll treat you to the ticket....If you can get a seat belt around that.
Chrissie: Oh, I never use seat belts. I don't believe in gravity.

Share this quote on facebook Where dreamers can be winners.

Share this quote on facebook She made him become what he always wanted to be — a lover, a hero, a rich man...and a killer!