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Jessica Chastain in Molly's Game (2017)

Quotes

Molly's Game

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  • Molly Bloom: To whoever answered that the worst thing that can happen in sports is getting 4th place in the Olympics: Seriously? Fuck you.
  • Judge Foxman: This courthouse is located within spitting distance of Wall Street. I know this from my personal experience trying to spit at it. The men and women who work there will commit more serious crimes by lunchtime today than the defendant has committed in this indictment.
  • Molly Bloom: You know what makes you feel okay about losing? Winning.
  • Harrison Wellstone: In Mike Davidoff's phone, intercepts alone, just Davidoff, your name comes up 19 times! "We need Molly..." "Get Molly..." "Bring Molly." It strongly suggests you were important to his business, so it's hard for me to believe that someone with your savvy and obvious intellect...
  • Molly Bloom: [interrupting him] They're talking about the drug. "Get molly" "Bring molly" "We need molly" It's... they're talking about the drug 'ecstasy'.
  • Douglas Downey: There's a poem... a famous... uh... a poem about... thoughts left unexpressed. "Two roads emerged from the woods. Do they explode? I dunno" You like poetry?
  • Molly Bloom: I did until a second ago.
  • Louis Butterman: There's a saying in my business. Don't break the law when you're breaking the law.
  • Molly Bloom: What do you mean?
  • Louis Butterman: No drugs, no prostitutes, no muscle to collect debts.
  • Molly Bloom: Oh, I don't do anything like that. But you just said I wasn't breaking the law.
  • Louis Butterman: Keep it that way, because you don't want to break the law when you're breaking the law.
  • Molly Bloom: Am I breaking the law?
  • Louis Butterman: Not really...
  • Molly Bloom: A survey was taken a few years ago that asked 300 professionals one question, "What's the worst thing that can happen in sports?" Some people answered losing a game 7, and other people said getting swept in the 4. Some people said it was missing the world cup, and some Brazilians said it was losing to Argentina. Not just in the world cup. Anytime, ever in any contest. But one person answered that the worst thing that can happen in sports is 4th place at the Olympics.
  • Molly Bloom: This is a true story, but except for my own, I've changed all the names and I've done my best to obscure identities for reasons that'll become clear.
  • Molly Bloom: Because it's my name... and I'll never have another.
  • Player X: You know, I don't like playing poker.
  • Molly Bloom: Why do you play?
  • Player X: I like destroying lives.
  • Molly Bloom: [the phone rings] Hello?
  • Player X: You are so fucked!
  • Larry Bloom: [to Molly] Your addiction was having power over powerful men.
  • Larry Bloom: I'm your father. Trying to comprehend how much I love you would be like trying to visualize the size of the universe.
  • Larry Bloom: It's funny how much faster you go when you're not charging by the hour.
  • Charlie Jaffey: [repeatedly] Hey. Switch seats.
  • Larry Bloom: I didn't know you got beaten up until I read it in your book. It was a hell of a way to learn about it, you should know. And if I'm hiring someone to find the guy who did it then I'm hiring someone to kill him.
  • Molly Bloom: Don't even joke about that.
  • Larry Bloom: I'm not.
  • Molly Bloom: It wasn't a purse snatcher, Dad. It was the mafia.
  • Larry Bloom: I don't care if it's the leader of the mob. Someone put their hand on you, they're gonna suffer.
  • Molly Bloom: Dad, I'm fine.
  • Larry Bloom: No, they're gonna suffer.
  • Molly Bloom: Dad, I'm alright. Really, I'm fine.
  • [Harrison and Brennan are taking a deposition from Molly, and Charlie is acting as her legal counsel]
  • Harrison Wellstone: Were the women who worked for you call girls?
  • Molly Bloom: No sir.
  • Brennan: They never exchanged sex for money?
  • Molly Bloom: No.
  • Harrison Wellstone: Have you ever exchanged sex for money?
  • Charlie Jaffey: [interrupting them] No!
  • Molly Bloom: I think he was talking to me.
  • Charlie Jaffey: You know, I don't like this picture.
  • Molly Bloom: Thank you.
  • Charlie Jaffey: You look like the cat that ate the canary and then told the canary's parents about it.
  • Molly Bloom: You know how many girls at the Olympics have demanding fathers?
  • Charlie Jaffey: All of them?
  • Molly Bloom: Exactly.
  • Charlie Jaffey: Molly Bloom does not belong in a RICO indictment, are you outta your minds? She does not belong in a mob indictment, she raked a game, that's it, for seven months two years ago. Why? Because she was giving credit in the millions and she didn't want to use muscle to collect. She's had opportunity after opportunity to greatly benefit herself by simply telling the real stories she knows. I have the forensic imaging going back to 2007: text messages, emails, movie stars, rock stars and billionaires who were explicit - some of them married with kids - but that's the tip of the iceberg. A guy comes this close to being named U.S. Ambassador to Monaco, he's withdrawn from consideration at the last minute and nobody knows why. She does. CEOs with college-age mistresses, an SVP of an investment bank who wanted her to help him put a marked deck in the game, the head of a movie studio who texted her that a particular star was too black for his taste, J. Edgar Hoover didn't have this much shit on Bobby! She could've written a best seller, she could have been set for life, she's got the winning lottery ticket and she won't cash it. She settled the Brad Marion suit for a half a million dollars just so she wouldn't have to testify and that was only the first time you guys cleaned her out. Your office took every dollar she had in a Constitutionally fucked up seizure and then you put the IRS on her to tax the money you seized? I've been in those strategy meetings. You broke her back so she couldn't possibly afford to defend herself. And now she has an opportunity to guarantee her own freedom by just... 'providing some color'... and she still won't do it. This woman doesn't belong in a RICO indictment, she belongs in Congress. She belongs in the pulpit of a synagogue, she belongs on a box of Wheaties. So yes I am, I'm imploring you to do the right thing. She knows nothing about the three Mikes. She knows nothing about Taiwanchik or the TGO or insurance fraud. Between the two of us we've appeared in front of this judge 28 times as prosecutors and not once has he deviated from our sentencing recommendations, he's not gonna start now. I know you've been putting this bust together for three years and there's no one who doesn't want to see mobsters in jail, including and especially the only person in this room who's had one of them put a gun in her mouth. Probation. Community service. Or better yet, consider that all she did was run a poker game exactly the same way every casino in America does and drop the goddamn charges.
  • Harrison Wellstone: [turns to Molly] Do you have anything you'd like to?
  • Molly Bloom: I am guilty.
  • Molly Bloom: [narrating]
  • [about Player X]
  • Molly Bloom: He played tight, didn't give a lot of action and always got his money in good, which means he was running the odds. In other words, he was playing poker and the others were gambling. And he won.
  • Shelby: Mr. Habib, good evening. I'm Shelby.
  • Shelly Habib: I'm Shelly, only one letter's different. Also, I'm a billionaire, I think I may have seen you naked.
  • Shelby: No. You'd remember.
  • Stella: Wait, aren't... You're Molly Bloom, right?
  • Molly Bloom: Yeah.
  • Stella: You don't look the same as in your photos.
  • Molly Bloom: None of us do.
  • Shelly Habib: [holding a painting] So, I'm hoping you'll accept this as temporary collateral.
  • Molly Bloom: That is... an authentic Monet.
  • Shelly Habib: Grabbed it right off the wall.
  • Molly Bloom: You came over here carrying a Monet?
  • Shelly Habib: I was driven. And I have security outside the door.
  • John G: I'll have an appletini.
  • Larry Bloom: [at family dinner] Don't ever use language like that again.
  • Teen Molly: Okay. Ignore my teachers, watch my language and respect the kitchen table. What else do I need to do before I'm allowed to disagree with you?
  • Larry Bloom: Make your own money so you can live in your own house and eat your own food.
  • Player X: Hi, I'm...
  • [a montage of videos and pictures featuring Player X on the red carpet, in interviews and films is shown]
  • Molly Bloom: I know who you are.
  • Dean Keith: Where? Where's the paper?
  • Molly Bloom: [points at the laptop screen] Spreadsheet.
  • Molly Bloom: It's a new magazine for the high end photography enthusiast.
  • Molly Bloom: I'm a Russian Jew.
  • Shelly Habib: As for tonight, I was not able to put my hands on cash today because I woke up this morning after the banks had closed.

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