He's says a speech at the Gamber's Anonymous about gamblers being lemons who want to lose so they feel alive. Can anyone find this speech and post it here. I tried but couldn't find it. Thanks in advance.
2007-01-09 16:15:14 · 5 answers · asked by imon2u 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
here is part of it. He tells his fellow degenerate gamblers that their problem isn't gambling, it's themselves: "We're all lemons. We need to lose." When they lose everything -- the job, the house, the family -- they are most fully alive, he says. When they win, they keep gambling until they lose again.
2007-01-09 16:19:21 · update #1
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 **** **** up all the time on purpose. Because we constantly need to remind ourselves we're alive. Gambling's not your problem. It's this ****** up need to feel something. To convince yourself you exist. That's the problem.
2007-01-09 16:20:22 · answer #1 · answered by vlfranklin1999 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-06-09 16:22:49 · answer #2 · answered by Henry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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 a****** 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 g****** 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 f*** s*** up all the time on purpose. Because we constantly need to remind ourselves we're alive. Gambling's not your problem. It's this f***ed 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.
2007-01-09 16:23:18 · answer #3 · answered by . 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Al Pacino Speech
2016-10-05 01:40:15 · answer #4 · answered by pendergast 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two For The Money Quotes
2016-12-29 17:46:30 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-09 16:20:26 · answer #6 · answered by irish1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋