"Now we'll talk all day if you want to. But, come sundown, there's gonna be two things true that ain't true now. One is that the United States Department of Justice is goin' to know what in the good Christ - excuse me, Angie - is goin' on around here. And the other's I'm gonna have somebody's ass in my briefcase."

"[to Megan] I think I know where we're headed here. Before we get there, I want to say something to you. You know and I know that we can't tell you what to print or what not to. We hope the press will act responsibly, but when you don't, there ain't a lot we can do about it. We can't have people go around leaking stuff for their own reasons. It ain't legal. And worse than that, by God it ain't right."

"I don't want to go to jail. But this has got to stop someplace. A lot of damage has been done. I'm responsible for a lot of it. I know that. I don't know. I keep thinking there must be some rules to tell me what I'm supposed to do now. But... maybe not. The person who told me about the Quinn investigation was not leaking it. They did not intend for it to be printed. I did that on my own. I'm scared to death of going to jail, but if I tell you, then you'll have to do something about it and someone else will be hurt. It's really very simple. I can hurt someone or not hurt someone. No rules. Just... me. I can't tell you."

"Suppose you picked up this morning's newspaper and your life was a front page headline... And everything they said was accurate... But none of it was true?"

"The D.A., Feds and the police set her up to write the story that explodes his world. Now he's going to write the book on getting even."

"Robert Goulet - Singer in hospital"

"Hollis McLaren - Chrissie"

"Michel Piccoli - Joseph"

"Al Waxman - Alfie"

"Burt Lancaster - Lou Pascal"

"Susan Sarandon - Sally Matthews"

"Kate Reid - Grace Pinza"

"She made him become what he always wanted to be — a lover, a hero, a rich man...and a killer!"

"Robert Joy - Dave Matthews"

"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."

"Where dreamers can be winners."

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

"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."

"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."

"[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."

"[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."

"Don't touch the suit."

"[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."

"I am not going to get upset."

"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."

"Grover Burgess - Mr. Batory"

"Tom Pedi - Det. Perelli"

"Enid Markey - Mrs. Edgar Hylton"

"Adelaide Klein - Mrs. Paula Batory"

"Mark Hellinger - Narrator (voice)"

"Howard Duff - Frank Niles"