Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes

Whoever gambles with the dollar, loses

I'm only as rich as my next film.

If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day.

Actors create a fantastic lifestyle thinking they're going to be able to maintain it. Then they can't get work or have to start taking work that doesn't suit them.

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.

I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.

I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.

There has been a great laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could write songs, but I could also take my $400 and play the slot machines at the riverfront casino.

Of course I gamble, to make the games interesting. But five hundred dollars a game, tops. Or sometimes a thousand. No heart attack bets.

I was a professional gambler. When I lived in London, there were a couple of years when I didn't really earn money doing anything else. I mean, I did other things: like, I made work, and I was working with Derek Jarman at the time, but the way I made money was putting money on horses.

I was bankrolling the games, vetting the players, extending the credit. My life was really stressful.

I went broke after sophomore year, gambled away all my money, sold some guns, turned $750 into $10,000, flew to Vegas, turned ten thou into $187,000.

We didn't have money put away in the bank for a college fund; soccer was our lottery ticket, our gamble.

When you're willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it's no longer recreation. It's taking over.

The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.

Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves.