Lucky You (2007)

Robert Duvall: L. C. Cheever

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Quotes 

• [from trailer] 

  L. C. Cheever : You got it backwards kid. You play cards the way you should lead your life. And you lead your life the way you should play cards.

• L. C. Cheever : Maybe everybody has a blind spot. Maybe everybody has to learn from their mistakes. I sure learned from mine.

• Huck Cheever : [after a losing player borrows money from L.C]  Is there anybody who doesn't owe you?

  L. C. Cheever : Just you kid... just you.

• L. C. Cheever : You're not going to be happy until you have nothing left.

• L. C. Cheever : [At the World Series, Michelle reveals her hand, a King-high flush]  Very nice.

  Michelle Carson : [Smiles, L.C. reveals his hand, a straight flush]  But not nice enough.

• Huck Cheever : I could have played it safe. That's not who I am.

  L. C. Cheever : You've got it backwards, kid. You play cards the way you should lead your life. and you lead your life the way you should play cards. Maybe everybody has a blind spot. Maybe everybody has to learn from their mistakes. I sure learned from mine.

• [from trailer] 

  Huck Cheever : I'm all in.

  L. C. Cheever : So, here we are.

  Huck Cheever : Here we are.

• L. C. Cheever : A buck and a half? You must have been up against it

• L. C. Cheever : I hear your left pocket is empty.

• L. C. Cheever : You and I both know what the book says you should do, Kid.

  Huck Cheever : Is that what you do now? Just play by the book? You might as well play online.

• L. C. Cheever : It was a good day when I figured out how to play poker and have a life, too. I recommend it.

• L. C. Cheever : Nobody's that much better than anybody else at the big tables. They have different styles, different ways of doing things. Everybody knows how to play. The key to winning is watching and understanding. There's things I don't see anymore. A blind spot.

• L. C. Cheever : Well, if he's gonna take anything from me, he's gonna have to win it, all right? And that's not likely to happen.

  Billie Offer : Maybe giving and receiving are more complicated than winning and losing.

  L. C. Cheever : Maybe so.