Gambling Movie Quotes & Sayings

The problem with many Jesus freaks is that we claim to 'build our house on a rock,' but when a storm comes we have such confidence in the building that all our focus is on the house. As if surety comes from construction, not from the foundation. — Anna Broadway

I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up. — Bill Nighy

As a kid, I went to the library because, in books, there were people really living lives, and unlike my parents, they talked to me about important things. — Gregory Sherl

I'm feeling around for what happens in a post-'Peep Show' world. — Robert Webb

The gambling industry actually generates more income than the music, sports, and movie industries combined. — William D. Willis

This mindset, known as loss aversion, the sunk-cost fallacy, and throwing good money after bad, is patently irrational, but it is surprisingly pervasive in human decision-making.65 People stay in an abusive marriage because of the years they have already put into it, or sit through a bad movie because they have already paid for the ticket, or try to reverse a gambling loss by doubling their next bet, or pour money into a boondoggle because they've already poured so much money into it. Though psychologists don't fully understand why people are suckers for sunk costs, a common explanation is that it signals a public commitment. The person is announcing: "When I make a decision, I'm not so weak, stupid, or indecisive that I can be easily talked out of it." In a contest of resolve like an attrition game, loss aversion could serve as a costly and hence credible signal that the contestant is not about to concede, preempting his opponent's strategy of outlasting him just one more round. — Steven Pinker

I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director. — Francis Ford Coppola

If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example. — Gary Sheffield

The look of someone who knows that in taking what she wants, she will be leaving something of herself behind. — Varian Krylov

You empower everything you complain about. You strengthen the negative things you speak of. And you energize the problems you vocalize. — Robin S. Sharma