Fast Eddie Felson quotes from The Color of Money (1986)

View Quote This ain't pool. This is for bangers. Straight pool is pool. This is like hand-ball, or cribbage, or something. Straight pool, you gotta be a real surgeon to get 'em, you know? It's all finesse. Now, every thing is nine-ball, 'cause it's fast, good for T.V., good for a lot of break shots... Oh, well. What the hell. Checkers sells more than chess.

View Quote Vincent, get in the car, this is embarrassing. You're acting like some girl who got felt up at the drive-in.

View Quote I can always go back to whiskey; it's been very good to me. I mean, you're sitting in it, and I'm wearing it.

View Quote Pool excellence is not about excellent pool.

View Quote [to Carmen about Vincent] We got a racehorse here, a thoroughbred. You make him feel good, I teach him how to run!

View Quote Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

View Quote [To Carmen] I'm not your daddy, I'm not your boyfriend, so don't be playing games with me. I'm your partner.

View Quote [To Vincent] You gotta have two things to win. You gotta have brains and you gotta have balls. Now, you got too much of one and not enough of the other.

View Quote Eddie Felson: You're some piece of work... You're also a natural character.
Vincent Lauria: [to Carmen] You see? I been tellin' her that. I got natural character.
Eddie Felson: That's not what I said, kid. I said you are a natural character; you're an incredible flake.
[Vincent's smile fades]
Eddie Felson: But that's a gift. Some guys spend half their lives trying to invent something like that. You walk into a pool room with that go-go-go, the guys'll be killing each other, trying to get to you. You got that... But I'll tell you something, kiddo. You couldn't find Big Time if you had a road map.

View Quote Eddie Felson: How much did you take off Moselle? I heard a hundred...
Vincent Lauria: One fifty!
Eddie Felson: [sarcastically] A hundred and fifty?
Vincent Lauria: That's right, a hundred and fifty.
Vincent Lauria: You walk into a shoe store with a hundred and fifty bucks, you come out with one shoe! We were working on five thousand!

View Quote Vincent Lauria: [Eddie is pushing to go on the road] This is my job, Eddie.
Eddie Felson: You think so? Hmmm. That's funny. I don't think so. I think it's your problem.

View Quote Eddie Felson: [walking into a crowded pool hall] Do you smell that?
Vincent Lauria: What, smoke?
Carmen: No, Money...

View Quote Carmen: You really think Vincent's that good?
Eddie Felson: Well, he's got the eye, he's got the stroke, he's got the flake... he's got the flake down cold. But can he flake on and flake off? I don't know. That's not clear.

View Quote Vincent Lauria: [about to play pool] Hey Eddie, what are you going to do when I kick your ass?
Eddie Felson: Pick myself up and let you kick me again.
Vincent Lauria: Oh yeah?
Eddie Felson: Yeah. [pause] Just don't put the money in the bank, kid. Because if I don't whip you now, I'm gonna whip you next month in Dallas.
Carmen: You mean Houston - there's nothing coming up in Dallas.
Eddie Felson: Houston, Dallas... And if not then, then the month after that, in New Orleans.
Vincent Lauria: Oh yeah? What makes you so sure?
Eddie Felson: [stares at Vincent for a second, then gets ready to break] Hey - I'm back.