Danny Ocean [at the end of a poker game]
I'm not sure what four nines does, but with the ace I think it's pretty high.
Most-quoted character in Ocean's Eleven (2001): in 42 of its 93 quotes
Most scenes with: Rusty Ryan (18), Tess Ocean (9), Linus Caldwell (4)
Cause the house always wins. You play long enough, never change the stakes, the house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, and then you take the house.
More lines from Danny Ocean
4 quotes Danny Ocean Danny Ocean You're either in or you're out. Right now.
Danny Ocean [to Rusty]
Ten oughta do it, don't you think? [Rusty says nothing] You think we need one more? [Rusty still says nothing] You think we need one more. [Yet again, Rusty says nothing] Okay, we'll get one more.
Danny Ocean [Greeting everyone for the first time]
Good evening. Welcome. Everybody full? Looks like it. Everybody sober? Close enough. Let me just start by saying that nobody's on the line just yet, but what I'm about to show you is risky and extremely dangerous. If that doesn't sound like your particular brand of vodka, help yourself to as much food as you'd like, have a safe journey, no hard feelings. Otherwise, come with me.
Scenes with Danny Ocean
37 scenes Danny Now, they tell me I paid my debt to society.
Funny, I never got a check.
You'd need at least a dozen guys doing a combination of cons.
Danny Like what, do you think?
Off the top of my head, I'd say you're looking at a Boeski, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros and a Leon Spinks, not to mention the biggest Ella Fitzgerald, ever.
Danny You remember the day I went out for cigarettes and didn't come back? You must have noticed. [goes to sit down]
I don't smoke. Don't sit.
Danny [last lines] [Danny has just gotten out of jail]
Hi.
Hi. We need to get Rusty a girl.
There's a women's prison down the road.
Danny [noticing Tess is wearing her wedding ring]
You said that you sold this.
I said that.
Danny Liar.
Thief.
[they kiss]
Danny Does he make you laugh?
He doesn't make me cry.
Danny Thirteen million and you drive this piece of shit cross country to pick me up?
Blew it all on the suit.
The Bellagio and the Mirage. These are Terry Benedict's places.
Danny Yes they are. You think he'll mind?
More than somewhat.
Danny There's a ninety-five pound Chinese man with a hundred sixty million dollars behind this door.
Let's get him out.
Danny It's never been tried.
Ho, ho... "It's never been tried." Oh, it's been tried. A few guys even came close. You know the three most successful robberies in the history of Vegas?
[flashback - the gaming room at the Horseshow, in black-and-white] [voiceover]
Number three, the Bronze Medal - pencil-neck grabs a lockbox at the Horseshoe...
[a man grabs a lockbox out of a guard's hand and runs for the door, and six guards instantly tackle him to the floor]
He got two steps closer to the door than any living soul before him.
[flashback - the gaming room at the Flamingo, in grainy color. A long-haired man is running for the door, clutching a bag]
The Flamingo in '71. This guy actually tasted fresh oxygen before they grabbed him.
[the man gets within a few feet of the door, before a guard smashes him across the neck with a nightstick]
Of course, he was breathing out of a hose for the next three weeks. Goddamn hippy.
[back to the present]
And the *closest* any man has ever come to robbing a Las Vegas casino...
[flashback - outside Caesar's Palace, in color. A man runs out, hunched over an armful of cash, followed by three security guards]
Was outside of Caesar's in '87. He came, he grabbed...
[Basher's original plan for knocking out the casino's power has flopped]
Hang on a minute, hang on... we could use a pinch.
Danny What's a "pinch"?
A pinch is a device which creates, like, a cardiac arrest for any broadband electrical circuitry. Better yet, a pinch is a bomb - now, but without the bomb. See, when a nuclear weapon detonates, it unleashes an electromagnetic pulse which shuts down any power source within its blast radius. Now that tends not to matter in most cases, because the nuclear weapon usually destroys anything you might need power for anyway. But see, a pinch creates a similar electromagnetic pulse, but without the fuss of mass destruction and death. So instead of Hiroshima, you'd be getting the seventeenth century.
Look, we all go way back and uh, I owe you from the thing with the guy in the place and I'll never forget it.
Danny That was our pleasure.
I'd never been to Belize.
Danny Why do they always paint hallways that color?
They say taupe is very soothing.
Danny Saul, are you sure you're ready to do this?
If you ever ask me that question again, Daniel, you will not wake up the following morning.
Danny [to Reuben]
He's ready.
Danny Tess, you're doing a great job curating the museum, the Vermeer is quite good, simple, vibrant, but his work definitely fell off as he got older.
Remind you of anyone?
Danny And I always confuse Monet and Manet. Now which one married his mistress?
Monet.
Danny Right, and then Manet had syphilis.
They also painted occasionally.
You're a thief and a liar.
Danny I only lied about being a thief, I don't do that anymore.
Steal?
Danny Lie.
I'm with someone who doesn't have to make that kind of distinction.
Danny No, he's very clear on both.
You know what your problem is?
Danny I only have one?
Tell me this is not about her, or I am walking. I am walking off this job right now.
Danny Who?
Tess. Terry Benedict. Tell me this is not about screwing the guy who's screwing your wife.
Danny Ex-wife.
Tell me.
Danny It's not about that.
Danny [pause]
It's not entirely about that.
Danny [Rusty turns away, furious.]
Russ, do you remember what we said back when we first got into this business. We said we were gonna play the game...
Danny, Rusty Like we had nothing to lose.
Danny Well, I lost something... I lost someone. That's why I'm here.
[long pause]
Okay, here's the problem - now we're stealing two things. And when push comes to shove, and you can't have both, which are you gonna choose? And remember - Tess does not split eleven ways.
Danny Second task, power - on the night of the fight, we're gonna throw the switch on Sin City. Basher, it's your show.
You want broke, blind, or bedlam?
Danny How about all three?
Right, it's done.
Danny [on Rusty's attire for picking him up from prison]
Ted Nugent called, he wants his shirt back.
Danny [holds up a black wallet]
Hello Linus. Whose is this?
Who are you?
Danny A friend of Bobby Caldwell's.
Danny [produces a plane ticket]
You're either in or you're out. Right now.
What is it?
Danny It's a plane ticket. A job offer.
You're pretty trusting pretty fast.
Danny Well Bobby has a lot of faith in you.
Fathers are like that. [pauses] Didn't he tell you? He didn't want me trading on his name.
Danny Do this job and he'll be trading on yours.
Danny [while they are watching a dozen Chinese acrobats at a circus]
Which one is the amazing Yen?
The little Chinese guy.
Why do this?
Danny Why not do it?
Danny [Rusty shakes his head]
'Cause yesterday I walked out of the joint after losing four years of my life and you're cold-decking "Teen Beat" cover boys. [pause] 'Cause the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, then you take the house.
Danny Little bit. Did I rush it? Felt like I rushed it.
No, it was good, I liked it. [elevator starts to close] The "Teen Beat" thing was harsh though.
I know everything that's happening in my hotels.
Danny So I should put the towels back?
Danny was walking through the restaurant when he spotted me.
Is that right?
Danny Yeah, imagine the odds.
"Of all the gin joints in all the world".
God, I'm bored!
Danny You look bored.
I am bored!
Danny Why do you think I came to see you first?
I have a question: Say we get into the cage, and through the security doors there and down the elevator we can't move, and past the guards with the guns, and into the vault we can't open...
Without being seen by the cameras.
Danny Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot to mention that.
Yeah well, say we do all that... uh... we're just supposed to walk out of there with a hundred and fifty million dollars in cash on us, without getting stopped?
Danny [everyone looks at Danny]
Yeah.
Oh. Okay.
Danny You gotta walk before you crawl.
Reverse that.
Parole Board Member #1 Mr Ocean, the purpose of this hearing is to determine, whether, if released, you are likely to break the law again. While this was your first conviction, you have been implicated, though never charged, in over a dozen other confidence tricks and frauds. What can you tell us about those?
Danny As you say, ma'am, I was never charged.
Parole Board Member #2 Mr Ocean, what we're trying to find out is was there a reason you chose to commit this crime, or was there a reason you simply got caught this time.
Danny My wife left me. I was upset. I fell into a self-destructive pattern.
Parole Board Member #3 If released, is it likely you'd fall back into a similar pattern?
Danny She already left me once. I don't think she'd do it again just for kicks.
Danny [discussing possible candidates for their crew]
Phil Turenteen...
Dead.
Danny No shit. On the job?
Skin cancer.
Danny You send flowers?
Dated his wife for a while.
Danny We'll need Saul.
He won't do it. He got out of the game a year ago.
Danny Religion?
Ulcers.
Danny ...You could ask him.
Hey, I could ask him.
Danny All right.
Danny [Bruiser punches Danny]
Ahh! Jesus, Bruiser, not until later!
Bruiser Sorry Danny, I forgot.
Danny It's all right. How's your wife?
Bruiser Pregnant again.
Danny I'm not joking, Tess.
I'm not laughing, Danny.
Danny Livingston, we're set.
Livingston, we're set.
Basher, we're set.
Hang on a minute chief.
We don't have a minute, Yen's gonna suffocate.
Then you'd better leave off bothering me, don't you think?
Shane West Mr Ocean, what do you do? If you don't mind me asking.
Danny I don't mind you asking, I just got out of prison. I'll take two.
Joshua Jackson Why were you in prison?
Danny I stole stuff.
Shane West You stole stuff? Like jewels?
Incan matrimonial headmasks.
Shane West Is there a lot of money in that? Incan matrimonial -
Danny - headmasks. Yeah, some.
Don't let him fool you, there's boatloads. If you can move them. But you can't. I'll take two.
Danny My fence seemed confident enough.
Dealing in cash you don't need a fence.
Danny Some people lack vision.
Probably everybody on cellblock E.
[Linus is removing the lighting panel from the elevator. Danny appears in the space]
Oh Jesus!
Danny Now you really didn't think I was gonna sit this one out, did you?
What, you didn't trust me?
Danny I do now.
Danny Well, if you give a friend a couple million...
But what about Rusty, the whole argument? I mean, what was that about?
[Danny laughs]
Aww, come on, why couldn't you just tell me, why'd you put me through all this?
Danny Where's the fun in that?
You'd need at least a dozen guys doing a combination of cons.
Danny Like what, do you think?
Off the top of my head, I'd say you're looking at a Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros and a Leon Spinks, not to mention the biggest Ella Fitzgerald, ever. Where do you think you’re going to get the money to back this?
Danny We hit these three casinos, we get our bankroll. Benedict's got a long list of enemies.
Enemies with loose cash and nothing to lose? [pauses, then nods] Ah...Reuben.
Danny Reuben.
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