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.
Sally Matthews
Susan Sarandon · 6 quotes
Lou Pascal
Burt Lancaster · 5 quotes
Chrissie
3 quotes
Grace Pinza
Kate Reid · 3 quotes
Joseph
Michel Piccoli · 2 quotes
Most scenes together: Lou Pascal & Sally Matthews (2)
Atlantic City quotes
Page 1 of 2 Fred O'Reilly 
Dave Who's the old guy?
Fred You mean Lou? He used run numbers for the dinosaurs.
[to a regnant Chrissie]
You oughta fly home. I'll treat you to the ticket....If you can get a seat belt around that.
Oh, I never use seat belts. I don't believe in gravity.
You shut up, Grace, you goddamned old lady.
If I'm an old lady, what does that make you?
I'm her lover.
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!'
Teach me stuff.
Like what?
What you know.
You want information or wisdom?
Both.
Why are you doing this for me?
Hey, it's nothing, Sinatra gives wings to hospitals. We all do what we can.
Young Doctor
Mrs. Matthews, you can claim the body tomorrow.
[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.
[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.
[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.
After her husband and her pregnant sister show up to stay with her.
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.
Don't touch the suit.
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.