Reuben Tishkoff You guys are pros. The best. I'm sure you can make it out of the casino. Of course, lest we forget, once you're out the front door, you're still in the middle of the **** desert!
Tied for 3rd most-quoted character in Ocean's Eleven (2001): in 11 of its 93 quotes
Most scenes with: Danny Ocean (2), Rusty Ryan (2)
I know more about casino security than any man alive, I invented it, and it cannot be beaten. They got cameras, they got locks, they got watchers, they got timers, they got vaults, they got enough armed personnel to occupy Paris! [pause] Okay, bad example.
More lines from Reuben Tishkoff
4 quotes Reuben Tishkoff Reuben Tishkoff [after rejecting Danny and Rusty's plan to rob a casino]
Look, we all go way back, and I owe you guys from the thing with the guy and the place, and I'll never forget it.
Reuben Tishkoff [after opening his door and seeing most of the eleven standing there]
What? Did you guys get a group rate or something?
Reuben Tishkoff [after talking to Linus]
It's nice there. You like it? [Linus says yeah] That's wonderful. Get in the goddamn house.
Scenes with Reuben Tishkoff
6 scenes
It's never been tried.
Reuben 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?
Reuben [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...
Reuben [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.
Reuben [cut to the present]
Second most successful robbery...
Reuben [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.
Reuben [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.
Reuben [back to the present]
And the *closest* any man has ever come to robbing a Las Vegas casino...
Reuben [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...
Reuben [the three guards shoot the thief in the back]
They conquered.
Reuben 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.
That was our pleasure.
I'd never been to Belize.
Reuben What have you guys got against Terry Benedict?
What do you have against him, that's the question.
Reuben He torpedoed my casino, muscled me out. Now he's gonna blow it up next month to make way for some gaudy monstrosity! Don't think I don't see what you're doing.
What are we doing, Reuben?
Reuben If you're gonna steal from Terry Benedict, you'd better goddamn know. This sort of thing used to be civilized. You'd hit a guy, he'd whack you, done. But with Benedict... at the end of this, he'd better not know you're involved, not know your names, or think you're dead. Because he'll kill you, and then he'll go to work on you.
That poxy demo crew haven't used a coaxial feed to batten the main line, have they? Instead they've gone and nosed up the backup grid, nosed it right up!
Reuben [to Livingston]
Do you understand any of this?
I'll explain later.
Reuben You're Bobby Caldwell's kid. From Chicago. It's nice there, do you like it?
Yeah.
Reuben That's wonderful. Now get in the goddamn house.
Reuben Where are they? That's what I wanna know, where the hell are they?
Reuben "They *will* be here"... Schmuck!
