"Only the angel who falls knows the depths of hell."

"He is great! Geez, that old fat man. Look at the way he moves, like a dancer... And those fingers, them marshmellow f…"

"[After discovering that Charlie kept some money from him] With that fifteen hundred, I could have beat him. That's al…"

"Now why did I do it, Sarah, why did I do it? I could've beat that guy, I could've beat him cold. He never would have …"

"[to Eddie] George Findley is a very rich man. His grandfather left him twenty-five percent of his tobacco company... …"

"A motion picture that probes the stranger... the pick-up... why a man hustles for a buck or a place in the sun!"

"They called him "Fast Eddie"... He was a winner... He was a loser... He was a hustler."

"It delves without compromise into the hungers that lie deep within us all."

"Trapped by the underworld . . . they risked love and fortune in a desperate gamble!"

"Paul Newman - "Fast" Eddie Felson"