Casino Culture Quotes

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

It wasn't a popular thing to be a professional poker player in the '80s.

I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all my years in Vegas.

Vegas' energy is wild.

A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, Goodbye.

Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society

I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.

When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.

I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!

As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

What I love about Vegas is that we have the mountains and the Strip. There is always something to do.

Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.

Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.

The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head.

Wall Street has become a veritable casino.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

casino owners spoke more loudly than any of the other kings of industry to defend their contribution to society. They could speak more loudly because theirs was the purest activity of civilized man. They had transcended the need for a product. They could maintain and advance life with machines that made nothing but money.

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.