Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

I had never taken acting at Brown to be the beginnings of a career. I always did it just for fun.

Poker is meant to be enjoyed.

Football is like recreation for me. I'd sooner be playing five-a-side than going out to eat or shopping.

It's something that's really fun to do. It's a family business.

I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

I never did anything for free. Other than dancing in clubs. I give that away for nothing.

I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.

I only make movies to finance my fishing.

This is my hobby: growing stores, adding stores. It's fun.

But Gargoyles, bar none, is the most fun I've ever had in life.

I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.

But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and making tons of money. It's a hard life. It's a lot of travel. It's a lot of weird hours.

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.

I usually love to go bowling when I'm in Vegas. There's something about Vegas and bowling, do you know what I mean? You know what I mean. Bowling is just the thing to do.

Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

Daily Fantasy Sports has nothing to do with sports. The “game,” such as it is, uses sporting events the way the lottery uses ping-pong balls. Being into DFS because you’re a sports fan is like being into poker because you’re just generally a big fan of clovers, diamonds and spades. Indeed, the best players don’t know anything about sports at all, a fact they are cheerfully honest, even boastful, about.

When we're on vacation - it doesn't matter where - I will go and look for a game.

I really like watching reruns of 'The Crystal Maze.' It's something that I find weirdly comforting. If I ever have even a small amount of banknotes, I love to 'Crystal Maze' them by throwing them in the air and catching them. But it's never as fun as it looks on TV.

That's the whole reason I got into acting: I don't do this like some grown-ups have to do it, because they have families, and they have to make money. It's not my job. My dad works to support our family. So I just do it for fun.

I'll bring in UNO, and we'll play that on set.

I can play poker when I have to and I think it has made me a better fighter.

There will always be someone who can pay more than BVB. But Dortmund have made a lot of progress during my time here.

I just don't enjoy poker that much.

With my height, I probably wouldn't be able to make money playing pingpong, but I would just have fun with it. The table is too low for me.

I spend most of my time at home dancing with my daughter to things like 'Frozen' and 'The Greatest Showman.'