The Hustler (1961)

Myron McCormick: Charlie Burns

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Quotes 

• Charlie Burns : Quiet.

  Fast Eddie : Yeah, like a church. Church of the Good Hustle.

  Charlie Burns : Looks more like a morgue to me. Those tables are the slabs they lay the stiffs on.

  Fast Eddie : I'll be alive when I get out, Charlie.

• Charlie Burns : How do you feel?

  Fast Eddie : Fast and loose, man.

  Charlie Burns : In the gut, I mean.

  Fast Eddie : I feel tight, but good.

• Fast Eddie : Hello, Charlie. Come on in. That's my girl.

  Charlie Burns : Hello, Eddie's girl.

• Charlie Burns : Do you care about me, Eddie? We were together a long time, night and day. So how do you say goodbye? You give me the car - and a hundred bucks. Do you think I care about the dough or the car? I care about you.

  [to Sarah] 

  Charlie Burns : This boy is the greatest pool hustler you ever saw. A high-class con man. He can charm anybody into anything. Did he tell you how well we did on the road? We had everything. We ate good, we slept late, we had money to burn. Whiskey, dames - excuse me.

  [to Eddie] 

  Charlie Burns : I tell you what, take her along.

• Charlie Burns : Eddie. Wake up, Eddie. We lose again.

  Fast Eddie : [checks the cash in his pocket]  Is this all we have left?

  Charlie Burns : If that's all you got, that's all we got left.

• Charlie Burns : Are you figurin' on going back to Ames to play Minnesota Fats again? Is that what's on your mind?

  Fast Eddie : Never been out of it. I'm going to beat that fat man - with that curly hair and those diamond rings and that carnation.