"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."

"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."

"[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."

"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."

"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."

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

"[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."

"I am not going to get upset."

"Don't touch the suit."

"[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."

"Marques Johnson - Raymond"

"You see Billy it's like this, you either smoke or you get smoked. And you got smoked."

"You can put a cat in an oven, but that don't make it a biscuit."

"Oh man shut your anorexic malnutrition tapeworm-having overdose on Dick Gregory Bahamian diet-drinking ass up. Leave me alone!"

"Can anybody step in for mr. handicap? Anybody, for Mr. Motherfucking March of Dimes?"

"Billy, listen to me. White men can't jump."

"I don't mean to brag... but I'm the greatest!"

"It's hard work makin' you look so bad."

"You still putting up bricks? What is this a masons convention? Clang!! Clang!! I need welding torch to play in this leauge. Lets stop right now and gather up all these bricks and build a shelter for the homeless so that your mother will have a place to live. I want your Mother and Sister out of my house immediately !!"

"A white man wants to win first, look good second. A black man wants to look good first, win second."

"Yo, pretty boy! I looked up basketball player in the dictionary and it said 'Not you!'."

"You're too pretty to play basketball, you know that? You got that Z in your 'fro! Hey man, what are you, the Black Zorro?"

"Keep singin' guys... My old man was a preacher... I love this shit!"

"Who you callin' a pilgrim motherfucker? Gobble this turkey!"

"I'm in a fuckin' zone!"

"It is hard God damn work, making something this pretty look like a chump!"

"Gloria: See. if I'm thirsty. I don't want a glass of water, I want you to sympathize. I want you to say, "Gloria, I too know what it feels like to be thirsty. I too have had a dry mouth." I want you to connect with me through sharing and understanding the concept of dry mouthedness."

"Junior: We goin' Sizzla! We goin' Sizzla!"

"Zeke: No, no, no, no...Billy Boy, this is Ghana. You, my friend, are shooting for The Sudan."

"Rhonda Deane: All I care about is getting out of the Vista View apartments, because there ain't no 'vista', there ain't no "view", and there certainly ain't no vista of no view."

"Junior: Billy Ho! Good ta see ya Billy ya look swell!"

"Raymond: who rattled your cage dickhead?"

"Wesley Snipes - Sidney Deane"