Two for the Money (2005)

Al Pacino: Walter

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• Walter Abrams : I will match my dysfunctional childhood and Tony's against yours, any day of the week.

  Walter Abrams : My father,five foot,arms like this... he had a cock like a Hebrew National.

  Walter Abrams : I even looked at him the wrong way... he smacked across the room like Jake LaMotta

  Walter Abrams : By the time i was five,he yelled at me so much,i thought my name was Asshole.

• Walter Abrams : You're a lemon. Like a bad car. There is something... there is something inherently defective in you, and you, and you, and me, and all of us. We're all lemons. We look like everyone else, but what makes us different is our defect. See, most gamblers, when they go to gamble, they go to win. When we go to gamble, we go to lose. Subconsciously. Me, I never feel better than when they're raking the chips away; not bringing them in. And everyone here knows what I'm talking about. Hell, even when we win it's just a matter of time before we give it all back. But when we lose, that's another story. When we lose, and I'm talking about the kind of loss that makes your asshole pucker to the size of a decimal point - you know what I mean - You've just recreated the worst possible nightmare this side of malignant cancer, for the twentieth goddamn time; and you're standing there and you suddenly realise, Hey, I'm still... here. I'm still breathing. I'm still alive. Us lemons, we fuck shit up all the time on purpose. Because we constantly need to remind ourselves we're alive. Gambling's not your problem. It's this fucked up need to feel something. To convince yourself you exist. That's the problem.

• Walter Abrams : You know, the best part of the best drug in the world isn't the high. It's the moment just before you take it. The dice are dancing on the table. Between now and the time they stop, that's the greatest high in the world.

• Walter Abrams : Know what you know, and know what you don't know. And know that I gotta know everything you know as soon as you know it... or sooner

• Walter Abrams : [at the baggage claim area of an airport and Walter faked a heart attack to test if Brandon is focused for the sit down with Novian]  There's no such thing as too far. You understand? You push everything as far as you can. You push and you push and you push until it starts pushing back. And then you push some goddamn more. Remember that when you're with this guy today.

• Walter Abrams : [to Brandon as they're walking on the sidewalk with Toni]  After the therapy, and the psychiatry, and the meetings, you know what it all comes down to? You're all fucked up.

  Walter Abrams : [start walking down the street]  com on let's all grab hands and shout it together WE ARE ALL FUCKED UP AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!

• Brandon Lang : [on a golf range with Brandon hitting golf balls]  Talk to me, so how'd we do?

  Walter Abrams : You haven't seen the scores?

  Walter Abrams : No, it's how I wanted it, make my picks and get the results later

  Walter Abrams : Highest sales volume ever take a guess how we did?

  Brandon Lang : Yeah I think we kicked ass

  Walter Abrams : It was amazing

  Brandon Lang : Last week was nothing

  Walter Abrams : Your right, it was nothing compared to what we lost today

  Brandon Lang : [surprised]  Where'd I go?

  Walter Abrams : I got an idea why don't I give you a glimpse of what happened then you take a stab on how you went?

  Brandon Lang : Just give me the numbers

  Walter Abrams : Grown men crying on the phone, their wives screaming in the background, three sales people quit couldn't take the pressure

  Brandon Lang : Fuck

  Walter Abrams : No, no you lose ten out of twelve "fuck" doesn't quite cover it, you know what'd be more appropriate? Something like "holy fucking shit" or "Jesus fucking Christ" you go two for twelve on our highest weekend ever and what's left to say? Except we keep the phone number and switch it to a suicide hotline, tomorrow morning Brandon we start all over again

• Walter Abrams : [in Walter's office]  This is dangerous territory we're getting into. You understand that. But I'm gonna bump you. ok? ten percent ok?Now talk to me about Monday night because everyone, and I mean everyone, is gonna double down after the hole you put 'em in.

  Brandon Lang : Monday night's fine.

  Walter Abrams : You bet your mother's house on it?

  Brandon Lang : I don't bet, Walter.

  Walter Abrams : If you did?

  Brandon Lang : [avoiding the question]  I like the pick, Walter.

  Walter Abrams : On your mother's house or not?

  Brandon Lang : [with his upper body hunched forward in his chair]  With my mother in it.

• Walter Abrams : Wait a minute I just got an idea, it just came to me out of the blue, what about this? Brandon didn't tell me he was going to leave because you let him fuck you, you deny it?

  Toni Morrow : Do I have to?

  Walter Abrams : You know you did, I saw you Toni, I saw you and him that night I never went to Vegas

  Toni Morrow : You mean you lied to me about the trip

  Walter Abrams : Don't talk to me about lying

  Toni Morrow : I guess you had the whole thing set up

  Walter Abrams : Don't make this about me

  Toni Morrow : You just put me out there on a tray?

  Walter Abrams : I put a tray out there, you didn't have to sholve a fucking apple in your mouth and sit on it, admit it!

  Toni Morrow : You played me

  Walter Abrams : You have any idea? it worked didn't it?

  Toni Morrow : Brandon was right

  Walter Abrams : You don't deny it?

  Toni Morrow : This is the best pick he ever made

  Walter Abrams : I don't know what that means

  Toni Morrow : You were gambling with me that night, Brandon knew it because he knew you, he told me he was sure you were watching somehow so he asked me to spend the night put on a show for you but I didn't believe him after all we've been through, so I figure what the hell, he slipped out the back no big deal he never even stayed here, you were in such a good the next day , I figured thank God he must've been wrong otherwise why wouldn't he confront us you wanted to lose like something you could toss on a table only we got you back Brandon and me who evidently love you more than you love yourself, your fantasy is to end alone with nothing, I won't let that happen I will never let that happen, this is all real you, and me and Julia we're all that's real

• Walter Abrams : [to Brandon in Walter's office]  Oh man... You better hold on to the coin you flipped. Because this game keeps up like this, I'm going to have to borrow it.

• Walter Abrams : Stats are not enough, you need a voice! These are gamblers ready to risk what they can't afford for what they can't have, you're selling the world's rarest commodity: certainty, in an uncertain world.

• Walter Abrams : [after Brandon requested a bonus, forcibly grabs Brandon and whispers]  I'm going to tell you something now, I'm only going to say this once if you want something more from me than a gesundheit after a sneeze you're going to have do more than come at me with this shit, you understand? you're going to have to earn it, and once you earn it, you're going to have to fight me for it, you're going to have to challenge me, you're going to rip it out of me that's how you get ahead with me, now John Anthony would know that and as a matter of fact next time you come to me with this shit, you come as John Anthony.

• Walter Abrams : [to two men eating in a fancy restaurant with Alexandria]  Excuse me, I don't mean to interrupt or anything like that but I just got to know this I'm sitting over there with my friends, and you are drop dead gorgeous and we just want to know your dates look like they haven't missed a meal since Christ died, I mean seriously you guys are eating like you have a date with the electric chair

• Walter Abrams : [celebrating after Brandon went 20 for 20 in a single game, hugging each other]  I've got to dance with you more

  Toni Morrow : You do

  Walter Abrams : I saw this house in the Bahamas, talk about an investment in case anyting should happen to me

  Toni Morrow : I don't want to hear that

  Walter Abrams : Why don't we go down there and check it out? just you and me, sit bare foot in the sand

  Toni Morrow : Just tell me your not gambling

  Walter Abrams : [they stop dancing]  Eighteen years straight the shit's over

  Toni Morrow : It's never over and you know that

  Walter Abrams : How about a truth serum into the veins? Baby we just made two million dollars I want to celebrate with my wife I want to enjoy a dance

• Walter Abrams : [during a Gambler's anonymous meeting]  You read the charter buddy? We left our jobs at the door, you're going to throw an ex alcoholic bartender out of an AA meeting

• Walter Abrams : [as Brandon enters his office]  Do you know what time it is?

  Brandon Lang : [looking at his watch]  It is 8:37 in the morning

  Walter Abrams : Wrong it's time to press my man we're going to yank out all the stops, when your winning you press you don't rest on your laurels what are you doing?

  Brandon Lang : [grabbing his golf clubs from the closet]  I have a ten thirty tee time with a client so don't call me unless the line's changed got it?

  Walter Abrams : The salmon are running, you've got to stay here field phone calls you can't go out and have fun, come on, stop playing around you got work to do

  Brandon Lang : I'm not "asking" you if I could go I'm "telling" you that's how it is, you want me to make my picks I can give you those

  Walter Abrams : Start picking on Tuesday for the weekend, you know we're going to be advising somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty million dollars this week

  Brandon Lang : Circling

  [his picks on a piece of paper] 

  Brandon Lang : that's a nice neighborhood we should be doing double that by week ten

  Walter Abrams : I see, you're going to make the picks no study no analysis you're just going to pick them

  Brandon Lang : I'm locked in Walter I don't really need it there's my picks for This week

  [hands Walter his picks] 

  Brandon Lang : , if you need next week's picks I can give you those by Friday

  Walter Abrams : I'm starting to get the drift here we'll put these picks on ice and we'll talk about them tomorrow

  Brandon Lang : I won't be in tomorrow

  Walter Abrams : Then the next day

  Brandon Lang : We'll talk about it

  Brandon Lang : [Brandon ignores Walter and leaves] 

• Walter Abrams : We need a bat light like one of those signals that shoot up into the clouds no matter where you are no matter what time of day just look up and say "hey Walter needs me" because I must have beeped you a hundred fucking times

  Brandon Lang : Who were they?

  [Sarcastically] 

  Brandon Lang : the Salvation Army, how does someone go one for eight? A fucking monkey tossing darts could do better

  Brandon Lang : What's with all the money?

  Walter Abrams : I got a plan, we take all your picks we reverse them like one of those twilight zone episodes where everything is the opposite you say "black" we go white

  Brandon Lang : How much is there?

  Walter Abrams : [Holding up stacks of cash]  peanuts, two hundred seventy five thousand that's how desperate I am

  Brandon Lang : What happen to the two million?

  Walter Abrams : Two million? I was carrying twice that in red ink before you even showed up, look around you everything you see is smoking mirrors I got three mortgages on this house what do you want to know? I'm gambling again

• Jerry : [on the set of Walter's television show]  I think I should lead off tonight I got some real strong stuff man

  Walter Abrams : You got a good hole, stay in it

  Jerry : Come on I went eight for twelve last week I'm hot I'm feeling it

  Walter Abrams : You have one good weekend don't get pushy

  Jerry : One good weekend? Sykes System revolutionized this industry am I wood?

  [Shows a newspaper ad about Brandon] 

  Jerry : where's my fucking ad?

  Walter Abrams : [Grabs the newspaper out of Jerry's hand and slams it down on the table]  take a hike

  Jerry : What?

  Walter Abrams : You're fired you're gone

  Jerry : I'm not fired you need me more than ever

  Walter Abrams : Get out of here you cut rate parasite

• Walter Abrams : [inside Walter's office]  There's half a dozen games left I want you to watch every second of every minute of every one of them so sit down, you know how you go three and eleven don't you? You go three and eleven when you make Sunday's picks on Tuesdays it rains in Cincinnati on Saturday two starting quarterbacks never got to play, that's how you go three and eleven, you're a handicapper not a psychic

  Brandon Lang : We still got Monday night parlay

  Walter Abrams : Fuck Monday night fuck the parlay this isn't about that it's not about me it's about the commission thing

  Brandon Lang : I don't know about that

  Walter Abrams : Don't bullshit me, I'm going to bump you ten percent ok? You earned it this is dangerous territory we're getting into, you understand that? But I'm going to bump you now talk to me about Monday night because everyone and I mean everyone is going to double down after the hole you just put them in

• Walter Abrams : I'm looking for a car for my friend

  Mercedes Dealer : Let's see what we can do, Mr. Anthony?

  Brandon Lang : [while posing as John Anthony]  Yes sir

  Mercedes Dealer : Do you have any credit?

  Brandon Lang : [amused]  No

  Mercedes Dealer : [to Walter]  of course not, I don't know, can you trust him?

  Walter Abrams : With my wife: NAKED

  Mercedes Dealer : [to Brandon]  In that case the floor is yours

• Walter Abrams : [to Toni, referring to Brandon on his first day as one of the new hosts for Walter's sports advisement shows]  Go back to sleep I'm not here, what a show you should've seen him. I just sat there and watched him roll, I swear he made me want to pick up the phone and call him I took all the sales boys out to get them prime for the weekend and Chuck got so drunk he took a swing at one of the deer heads on the wall. I'm going to have to hire more guys on Monday I've got to get more phones, everything is getting "amped" up, this guy I'm going to do this whole dot com thing around him. When I was his age I never had a mentor and now I got a protégé someone you hand it all down to, anything happens to me he steps in just knowing that gives me a sigh of relief, it's like having a son

• Walter Abrams : [Sees Brandon's good bye letter on the dresser in his apartment]  He left.

  Toni Morrow : I know.

  Walter Abrams : You didn't tell me? How about that? No "good bye", nothing.

  Toni Morrow : I'm sure it's all there in the letter.

  Walter Abrams : I'm sure it is but I wonder what's not in here.

  Toni Morrow : What do you mean?

  Walter Abrams : What do you mean? "What do I mean?"

  Toni Morrow : He had enough he wanted his life back.

  Walter Abrams : He said that to you?

  Toni Morrow : Yeah, loud and clear by leaving.

  Walter Abrams : I think there was something else.

  Toni Morrow : Yeah, tell me.

  Walter Abrams : You have no idea? I guess Brandon was home sick or maybe he had such deep feelings for me that he couldn't face saying good bye.

• Brandon Lang : [Celebrating after wining twenty for twenty]  You the man big papa.

  Walter Abrams : [hugging each other]  I love you forever.

  Brandon Lang : How much of that cash would be for me?

  Walter Abrams : How about a one with five zeros behind it?

  Brandon Lang : [surprised and disappointed by the low amount]  A hundred grand? On two million?

  Walter Abrams : You'd be working out of my "shop".

  Brandon Lang : Yes sir I am this is your "shop", I'm just saying feed the horse, maybe ten percent?

  Walter Abrams : [amused]  Ten percent? Is that what you're thinking? That's a beautiful thought, forget it.

• Walter Abrams : [over the phone]  congratulations you went nine and two last Sunday. I don't know if you know me but I run the biggest sports betting service in the country and I'm a big fan of yours, as a matter of fact I got a poster of you on my wall

  Brandon Lang : This is a joke right?

  Walter Abrams : No this is not a joke, this is a job offer in your top drawer there's an envelope with your name on it, inside the envelop there's travel cash and an airline ticket, this isn't a magic trick I paid someone to put it there Who incidentally told me that the place you work in reminded him of a Turkish prison. All I'm asking you is to come up with a number, you write down the number of what you make now, then you cross it out and write what you should be making. Then you toss in what it's going to take you to fly to New York first class and come work for me. Now focus because with your injured knee, a comeback is just a dream my offer is real.

• Walter Abrams : [to Toni while walking with her and Brandon]  Will you stop worrying we're set for life we've got "Jimmy the Greek", here he makes Nostradamus look like a fucking novelty act.

  Brandon Lang : Have you been blocking any of my calls?

  Walter Abrams : Of course you don't need distractions right now a lot of crazies out there.

  Brandon Lang : Does that include my father?

  Walter Abrams : If you're asking me, I'll tell you, yeah it does.

  Brandon Lang : You son of a bitch, for how long?

  Walter Abrams : About two weeks would you have taken the call if I put it through?

  Brandon Lang : That's not the point.

  Walter Abrams : Then what is the point? I'd like to know, what's the story with you and your father?

  Brandon Lang : You tell me you seem to know.

  Walter Abrams : Well I know pieces, that's about all I know, I was just trying to spare you.

  Brandon Lang : Spare me? What are you going to spare me from? He was a God damn drunk he left when I was nine I couldn't compete with his bottle: end of fucking story, so don't spare me nothing, if I want to talk to him I will.

  Walter Abrams : My father broke my nose three times, and Toni's childhood wasn't any better, she was abused by everybody in her family except the family dog, your father a drunk, and a jerk so what? It happens, I'm glad I blocked those calls you know why? You need a new image of a man, how about me?

  Brandon Lang : [Toni starts laughing]  That's a scary fucking thought.

  Walter Abrams : Listen, the shit that happened to you, to me and to Toni you know what that is? We're just that fucked up, you've just got to say that out loud "we are just that fucked and we're not going to take it anymore".

• Brandon Lang : [to Toni while gently holding her hand]  Will you have dinner with me tonight?

  Toni Morrow : I'm married to Walter.

  Walter Abrams : Ooooo... bogey.

• Brandon Lang : Should I call somebody?

  Walter Abrams : Yeah, in case they have a spare heart.

• Walter Abrams : Do you understand?

  Brandon Lang : Hell yeah I understand. I'm John fucking Anthony: I've got a crystal ball!

• Walter Abrams : [On the TV show]  Hello everybody and welcome to the big weekend. Never before in this industry has an offer been made like the one I'm about to present to you now. I am so confident for John Anthony's picks for this Sunday. I am so sure about the skills his brought to bare and so anxious for you to get on the phone and dial the toll free number and for the first time in sports adviser history I'm going to guarantee our picks this weekend.

  Brandon Lang : What's that mean?

  Walter Abrams : What does that mean? It means this: you tell us how much you're betting with your bookie you lose, we cover, you heard me right that's risk free.

  Brandon Lang : Wow, that is all I can say, the phones are going to be flooded and they should be.

  Walter Abrams : Hey, John why don't you run down the pit falls facing the average better because when you think about it, a game this huge all the added dynamics without your expertise I guess the average better might as well just flip a coin.

• Walter Abrams : [Over the phone]  Alright double it, triple it, no everything is about money, this Sunday my little girl, an angel turns six, this isn't is going to happen again, she love elephants your circus has ten. I only need one, my little girl's happiness is in your hands. I don't need parenting advice from a guy who doubles as a clown. I need an elephant. I'm willing to pay what it'll take to "grease your wheels" to get one here this weekend.

  Walter Abrams : [Hangs up the phone frustrated] 

  Walter Abrams : [to Brandon]  you look like your in great shape

  Brandon Lang : I've been better

  Walter Abrams : Your modest too, modesty is not a virtue could be a vice, there are rules to success, you ever sell before?

  Walter Abrams : Are you religious?

  Brandon Lang : I believe in God.

  Walter Abrams : [yelling to his secretary Liz in the next room, referring to Brandon]  this is me thirty years ago right? Remarkable resemblance his a little taller, I'll give him that,

  [to Brandon] 

  Walter Abrams : you do anything other than the sports phone in Vegas?

  Brandon Lang : Just the nine hundred number recordings, ten bucks a call

  Walter Abrams : That's chump change, we're after much bigger fish here, the networks don't talk about it, government can't tax it but sports betting is a two hundred billion dollar a year business, there's a lot of gamblers out there and they have needs, they call us every Monday morning after a losing a Do you know why Monday Night Football is the most watched sport throughout the season? And after a losing weekend, they have big needs: gargantuan

  [Turns on the TV] 

  Walter Abrams : That's every football game played last Sunday, do you know why Monday Night Football is the most watched football game of the week? because Monday is the last chance betters have to climb out of the hole they got themselves in, in order to pay their bookies on Tuesday sports betting is illegal in forty nine states including this one but what we do is not, we are one hundred percent legal, like stock brokers only instead of touting stocks we advise people how to bet, if a client wins by taking our advice we get a percentage and they'll gladly give it to us because they want to keep getting the advice but if they lose we get "zip", so the object here my dear tall athletic friend is to win.

  Brandon Lang : I can do that.

  Walter Abrams : [Changes the channel to watch his own TV show]  That's my cable show airs Saturday and Sunday nationwide we tape Thursday and Friday, what's going on with my hair? My barber did it again you got one part of my head in Cleveland and the other part in Chicago, what are we going to do with this guy? My barber should be shot I want him dead

  [jokingly] 

  Brandon Lang : If all the picks are "free" why not charge a fee upfront initially?

  Walter Abrams : You make a good point, next question

  Brandon Lang : What's on the second floor?

  Walter Abrams : That's where we "print" the money anything else?

  Brandon Lang : No I think I got it, everything's crystal clear.

  Walter Abrams : I like you, this thing's going to work

  Brandon Lang : I'm looking forward to it

  Walter Abrams : You ever have a manicure? There's a girl you've got to meet

  Brandon Lang : Yeah? What's she like?

  Walter Abrams : She's beautiful you're going to like her.

• Walter Abrams : I'm going to start you off on the nine hundred numbers same gig you had in Vegas you make your picks you record them once a day Monday through Friday five times a day on the weekend, each call is worth twenty five bucks a shot we're doing about three dozen hits a week that's nothing we should triple that, before you get into your test copy I got a few words for you your pitch sucks, no offense but you've got potential so we've got to find a way to "bust you out" and we're going to start by giving you a new name: John Anthony, it just came to me, the "million dollar man"

  Brandon Lang : What's wrong with "Brandon Lang"?

  Walter Abrams : Nothing's wrong with "Brandon Lang" it's just that he's still living with his mommy, John Anthony's living large, he don't hold back his got a direct line to God and for a measly twenty five bucks a call his going to let the world's losers listen in.

• Walter Abrams : What's your sales pitch?

  Brandon Lang : [telling Walter his sales pitch]  This is John Anthony, "the million dollar man" from Wall Street to Tokyo to Hollywood all your big money stays and plays with me sit back and relax because it's a scud attack this weekend and I'm going to shell your book maker.

  Walter Abrams : [disappointed]  It's a start.

  Brandon Lang : It's a start?

  Walter Abrams : What can I tell you?

  Brandon Lang : If that's not what you want, then you need to find someone else to sell and just let me pick

  Walter Abrams : It's not about what I want it's about what Brandon wants

  Brandon Lang : If I hear that I'm calling this number.

• Walter Abrams : [referring to Brandon]  This guy is a machine all he does is work out and pick winners talk about fit you should see him without his shirt off, serious sight of beef

  Toni Morrow : Enjoy our daughter's birthday

  Walter Abrams : You should check him out I know you want to

  Toni Morrow : Get it out of your head it's a bad neighborhood

• Walter Abrams : [In a restaurant]  Anyone who goes twenty for twenty four college football twelve for fourteen professional football,l a hundred and seventy five calls on the nine hundred number you can call "Bruschetta" whatever you want, you ever have a thousand bottle of wine?

  Brandon Lang : No

  Toni Morrow : It's a waste he hardly drinks

  Walter Abrams : It's a celebration just because he's out with a couple of reformed drunks that doesn't mean he can't enjoy himself

  Toni Morrow : I was a lot of things I never was a drunk

  Brandon Lang : Actually truth be told I never had a twelve dollar bottle of water

  Walter Abrams : He thinks we're fighting

  Toni Morrow : Yeah he does

  Brandon Lang : [Raises his glass to Toni and Walter]  This is great, look, all of this thank you

  Toni Morrow : [referring to Brandon, to Walter]  Watch out he's a fixer, what'd the doctor say?

  Walter Abrams : If you really want to know I've been meaning to tell you, I went yesterday he seemed very concerned, he sat me down and looked into my eyes and asked "who do you like in the Buffalo/Oakland game?

  Brandon Lang : [laughing]  You tell him Buffalo?

  Walter Abrams : [to Toni]  you haven't touched your sauce its chocolate I hear it's good for you

  Toni Morrow : I'm not raising our kid alone

  Walter Abrams : Don't be dramatic in Biblical times you'd move in with my brother Morty

  Brandon Lang : [Sees Alexandria from across the room]  I like her a lot I think she's extremely cute

  Walter Abrams : "Beauty and the beasts" she's looking at you

  Brandon Lang : So are those two guys she's with

  Walter Abrams : I'll bet you ten to one on a thousand you can't pick her up that's ten thousand cash if you leave this restaurant with that girl

  Toni Morrow : I got a better idea why we don't we just go to Atlantic City and open a house account? You know you can't gamble

  Walter Abrams : Who's gambling? I haven't flipped a coin since the eighties this is just a challenge

  Brandon Lang : Ten thousand, cash?

  Walter Abrams : What are you going to do?

  Brandon Lang : I'm going to introduce myself

  Walter Abrams : "John Anthony" can "close" her.

• Walter Abrams : Ok now you're ready, now you're going to the second floor this is where we print the money, this is where the sales people turn a ten dollar better to a thousand dollar better before he knows he even made the phone call. I got three guys who can pick games, twenty guys who can sell, I never had a guy who can do both but now I do

  Brandon Lang : You mean me?

  Walter Abrams : Not you, I'm talking about "John Anthony"

  Brandon Lang : "John Anthony" doesn't exist

  Walter Abrams : I'm shocked because I'm standing in his office and your sitting in his chair

  Brandon Lang : So you want me to sell like those guys out there?

  Walter Abrams : Yes big betters don't want to talk to middle men they want to talk to the guy giving them the picks, there's a few choice phrases we use and just start with those like this one: "I don't want your money I want your bookies' fucking money", say it back to me.

  Brandon Lang : "I don't want your money I want your bookies' money"

  Walter Abrams : That's not bad, what happened to "fuck"?

  Brandon Lang : What about it?

  Walter Abrams : I said it, you didn't, It's a religious thing?

  Brandon Lang : No it's not a religious thing

  Walter Abrams : It was alright for Chaucer six hundred years ago, I don't want to embarrass you but I have to do this

  Brandon Lang : What?

  Walter Abrams : [Opens the door to Brandon's office yells to his entire staff]  I got someone here who has a problem saying "fuck"

• Leon : [During a Gamblers Anonymous meeting]  You think with two mortgages out, the repo guy staking out my car, my job on the line, and my wife threatening to leave me that I'd stop but I'm "staying in the chase" doubling down, I guess I've been doing pretty good because I know I've got one big problem.

  Walter Abrams : [to a Gamblers Anonymous member as he quickly leaves with Brandon]  If you rethink things over here's my card and put it in your wallet, we're toping eighty percent this weekend, you'll never know when you'll relapse.

• Walter Abrams : [to Brandon in his office, referring to how to sell to his clients his sales pitch]  The only thing you've got to know about any of our clients is that they are all in the hole, the second they pick up the phone we've got them, you get to the point you're "above" them let them know that, let them feel it, give them more "John Anthony".

• Walter Abrams : [while having dinner at Walter and Toni's home]  I'm thinking putting "John Anthony" on TV this week if you do this, from here on out you're going to have to eat, sleep, breath, talk, walk and fart "John Anthony" that's the way it is there's no holding back you've got to be it or it doesn't work

  Toni Morrow : That's right just think it over and don't decide now

  Brandon Lang : If it's the only move, it means I've got to do a little acting I'm cool with that

  Walter Abrams : No, no acting this is living you didn't hear me from here on out Brandon Lang and his fettuccine knee and self fucking pity is as flat dead as Donald trump's hair and John "I can walk on fucking water "Anthony has taken his place. I'm going to build an empire around you its going to cost me, do you understand what I'm saying?

  Brandon Lang : Hell yeah I understand, I'm "John fucking Anthony" I've got a crystal ball

• Jerry : [Bursts into Brandon's office]  Do you think New York will win this weekend?

  Brandon Lang : [sarcastically]  A knock would be nice

  Jerry : I'm kind of underwater here, a "yes" or "no" would be great

  Brandon Lang : No I don't

  Jerry : well, If you know something or if you hear anything you've got to let me know because that's the way we work around here

  Brandon Lang : [sarcastically]  I'll rush right over, stat

  Jerry : I've been working here for six years and you've been here for one

  Walter Abrams : [Walter walks into the office, to Jerry]  what are you doing in here? Hit the phones and do some damage control rewrite that computer program of yours

  Jerry : What can I say? It was a fucked weekend

  Walter Abrams : [to Brandon]  There's a "fifty dime" bettor on line three and wants to talk to John Anthony

  Brandon Lang : What's his name?

  Walter Abrams : His name is McCall his a gazillionaire he owns a couple dozen of McDonald franchise restaurants

  Jerry : Wait a minute. I landed that lead his my guy

  Walter Abrams : "Was" your guy

  Jerry : [Referring to Brandon]  He's raiding my lists now?

  Walter Abrams : Your clients are jumping ship you lactose-intolerant fuck, get out of my sight

• Walter Abrams : [after bursting into his office]  We've got to go to Puerto Rico

  Brandon Lang : [after putting mother on hold]  What's in Puerto Rico?

  Walter Abrams : C.M. Novian just called he lives in Puerto Rico, his the biggest sports better in the world. We have hit the jack pot, he wants to have a sit down and talk with you.

  Brandon Lang : I got it how much time we got? Forty five minutes the plane leaves LaGuardia, what'd you know about this guy?

  Walter Abrams : Not much except he is a world class prick he wouldn't return my phone calls treated me worse than my Hong Kong tailor, you know how long I've been trying to "bag" this guy? Have you got any idea what this thing is worth?

  Brandon Lang : No but I want a bonus if we pull this off.

  Walter Abrams : Not "if", it's "when", remember, he called us, you hooked him.

• Walter Abrams : To cover my losses, I just got a loan from a guy who works out of a bar on a hundred and sixth on Broadway, the trouble with me is I started betting you heavy after you won a hundred percent and I rode you right to the fucking toilet.

  Brandon Lang : I know what the problem is I'll take care of all this shit check this out: I'm Brandon Lang I'm the kid who plays sports and the kid who loves sports I'm the kid who can pick the winners, I'm the kid you called in Las Vegas somewhere along the way I lost something I don't know what but I know I've got to go back to being me and if I go back to Brandon I can pick again.

  Walter Abrams : Forget "John Anthony" burn the suits it's my fault I fucked with you, only two games two winners, two overs or unders.

  Brandon Lang : That's right.

  Walter Abrams : I'll get the guys to crunch the numbers spread a little of the "Brandon magic" over everybody and get the sales people burning up the phones come Monday we go four for four.

  Brandon Lang : [Growing confidence]  Four for four.

• Walter Abrams : [Watching and Explaining the football game to Julia]  Come and watch with me my angel. I need you to root for me, see that team over there? Those are the bad guys we don't want them that's Atlanta we want the good guys the blue team that's New York and New York's got to win by more than five points only you got to root for a low score because both teams together have to make less than forty two points total: so its New York's in under forty two points

• Brandon Lang : [after losing another game]  I'm finished

  Walter Abrams : That's great to hear

  Brandon Lang : I'm done, I don't eat, and I'm not sleeping

  Walter Abrams : What are you trying to say? You've got a little indigestion and some insomnia and you're going to quit? A Hail Mary pass, these things happen

  Brandon Lang : I'm telling you it's over, what use is this "John Anthony" to you? The streak he's been on?

  Walter Abrams : forget this defeatist bullshit hot streaks go cold, cold streaks go hot, they know you went eighty percent for half a season and their going to remember as soon as you win a game then we go into March Madness baseball next year this time wouldn't even be a memory

  Brandon Lang : Who ever said anything about next year?

  Walter Abrams : [Toni walks in]  You made a career choice and I bank rolled it

  Toni Morrow : Let him go

  Walter Abrams : Let him go? Of course you'd stick up for him

  Toni Morrow : Meaning what?

  Walter Abrams : I don't know, meaning whose side are you on?

  Toni Morrow : I didn't realize I had to choose

  Walter Abrams : [to Brandon]  you're a champion, a champion goes down eighty six times his up on the eighty seventh. I'm not going to let you stay down besides this is not about you or you or me, it's about your gift, your gift transcends all this shit. Your gift is cosmic, its metaphysic, its eternal it is God. Besides we have a contract

  Brandon Lang : Bullshit

  Walter Abrams : Bullshit?

  Toni Morrow : You can't own someone

  Walter Abrams : [to Brandon]  Who owns him? I created the greatest sports tout this country's ever seen. I hooked him up with every major client I built the fucking television show around him, I took out full page ads, I introduced him to the major clients of the world I did that, I hooked you up with everybody you think you're going to walk out that door and take that with you and leave me here holding the fucking sack? Bullshit

  [to Toni] 

  Walter Abrams : I don't even know why I'm talking to you about this, what the hell does this have to do with you? You know this is between me and him, what are you doing in this office? Get out of here

  Brandon Lang : Don't talk to her like that, this is between me and you

  Walter Abrams : Yeah this is between me and you, you telling me how to talk to my wife? You shut your fucking toilet when I'm talking to her

  Toni Morrow : [Escorting Brandon out of Walter's office]  Leave, please just go, listen to me you son of a bitch don't you ever talk to me like that

  Walter Abrams : I'm sorry

• Walter Abrams : [Waking Brandon up, referring to their argument they had the night before]  Its six in the morning, all is forgiven. I've got to go to Vegas, meet with some clients "a hand holding" thing, just keep it on board for the last game because you can do this thing. End of the season is the perfect time to turn the streak around. I'll be back tonight we'll go out and have a good meal and get you back in the groove again. Nine thirty at Nobu, we're turning it around.