The Hustler (1961)

Jackie Gleason: Minnesota Fats

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• [last lines] 

  Fast Eddie : Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool.

  Minnesota Fats : So do you, Fast Eddie.

• Minnesota Fats : Shoot pool, Fast Eddie.

  Fast Eddie : I'm shootin' pool, Fats. When I miss, you can shoot.

• Fast Eddie : Fats, you can't run out on me!

  Minnesota Fats : You watch me.

• Fast Eddie : Fats, let's you and me shoot a game of straight pool.

  Minnesota Fats : Hundred dollars?

  Fast Eddie : Well, you shoot big time pool, Fats. I mean, that's what everybody says: you shoot big time pool. Let's make it $200 a game.

  Minnesota Fats : Now I know why they call you Fast Eddie. Sausage, rack 'em up.

• Fast Eddie : What if I don't pay ya, Bert?

  Bert Gordon : [laughs]  You don't pay me? You're gonna get your thumbs broken again. And your fingers. If I want 'em to, they're gonna break your right arm in three or four places.

  Minnesota Fats : You better pay him, Eddie.

  Fast Eddie : So you figure you're still my manager, huh?

  Bert Gordon : I'm a business-man, kid.

• Minnesota Fats : Your shot.

  Fast Eddie : You miss? Now, you don't leave much when you miss, do you fat man?

  Minnesota Fats : That's what the game's all about.

• Minnesota Fats : Big John, do you think this boy is a hustler?

• Minnesota Fats : Do you like to gamble, Eddie? Gamble money on pool games?

• Minnesota Fats : You break.

  Fast Eddie : [Eddie breaks]  I didn't leave you much.

  Minnesota Fats : You left enough. Six in the corner. Fifteen, in the corner. Ace, in the side. Eight. Ten. Eleven...

• Minnesota Fats : You shoot a good stick.

• Minnesota Fats : Is your name Felson? Eddie Felson?

  Fast Eddie : That's right.

  Minnesota Fats : I hear you've been looking for me.

  Fast Eddie : Yeah, that's right, too.

• Fast Eddie : You're Minnesota Fats, aren't you? You know, they say Minnesota Fats is the best in the country, where I come from.

  Minnesota Fats : Is that a fact?

  Fast Eddie : Yes, sir, boy. They say that old Fats shoots the eyes off them balls.

• Minnesota Fats : Fast Eddie, let's play some pool.