A scene from The Hustler 1961
Eddie

Please don't get off me now, Bert.

Gordon

I know when to quit and you don't. Win or lose, you don't know when to quit.

Eddie

[on his knees]

What do ya want me to do, huh? What do ya want me to do? Just say it and you got it, but please don't get off me now.

Sarah

Don't beg him, Eddie.

Eddie

Go on back to the hotel.

Sarah

Please Eddie, don't beg him.

Eddie

Go on back to the hotel, take a cab. Go on back to the hotel.

Sarah

Doesn't all of this come through to you, Eddie? Doesn't any of this mean anything to you? That man, this place, the people. They wear masks, Eddie and underneath the masks they're perverted, twisted, crippled....

Eddie

Shut up!

Sarah

Don't wear a mask, Eddie. You don't have to. That's Turk, Eddie, the man who broke your thumbs. Well, he's not gonna break your thumbs. He'll break your heart, your guts, and for the same reason. He hates you because of what you are, cause of what you have and he hasn't.

Eddie

Would you get off my back, Sarah, once and for all, would you get out?! Would you get off my back?!

Gordon

Go ahead and play him, Eddie. Play him for a thousand dollars a game.

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