Lucky You (2007)
Eric Bana: Huck Cheever
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Quotes
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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.
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Sharkey : [after Miller turns over Huck's cards to see if he was bluffed] Never touch another player's cards.
Sharkey : You raised me with nothing?
Huck Cheever : Sometimes nothing's enough.
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Billie Offer : Why do you like it so much? Is it the money?
Huck Cheever : The money's just a way of keeping score. Poker is competition in the purest sense. Doesn't mater who you are or what you are; everybody's equal at the table.
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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.
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[from trailer]
Huck Cheever : I'm all in.
L. C. Cheever : So, here we are.
Huck Cheever : Here we are.
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Huck Cheever : I got a seat in the World Series.
Billie Offer : You came all the way here to tell me that?
Huck Cheever : You're the only person I wanted to tell.
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Pawnbroker : What's your name?
Huck Cheever : Huck
Pawnbroker : Well Huck, I'll give you another buck and a half for the ring, and you've got 120 days to come and see me
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Huck Cheever : The chair thing is an old gag and I did it for you because I thought you'd find it funny.
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Huck Cheever : I'm down with the little fish tonight, swim with the guppies for a while
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Billie Offer : Do you always intrude on private conversations?
Huck Cheever : Well, it seemed like an intrusion might be welcome.
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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.
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Billie Offer : Well, you beat him once.
Huck Cheever : It doesn't work that way.
Billie Offer : Well, maybe it should.
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Billie Offer : Is he related to you?
Huck Cheever : Why do you say that?
Billie Offer : Because your eyes went all quiet.
Huck Cheever : In poker, we call that a tell. He's my father.
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Huck Cheever : I'm sorry we didn't get around to the celebrating.
Billie Offer : No, don't be. I haven't had this much fun since junior high!
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Huck Cheever : It did seem the cards ran a little better for me when you were around.
Billie Offer : What happened to the 'best of it?'
Huck Cheever : Turned into a little bit of the worst of it.
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Billie Offer : The leaf doesn't fall far from the tree.
Huck Cheever : Hmm?
Billie Offer : You hate him, but you still play poker.
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Billie Offer : You stole from me.
Huck Cheever : Borrowed. I had it way up.
Billie Offer : Borrowing is when you ask!
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Huck Cheever : If I'd have won, you'd have a share just like before.
Billie Offer : You think that the only person that matters is you: what you need, when you need it. You're a sick pony.
Huck Cheever : [mumbles] Puppy.
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Huck Cheever : Billie, look I was wrong, but I'm going to pay you back.
Billie Offer : I'm not a bank! You can't make deposits and withdrawls whenever you feel like it.
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Huck Cheever : Want to come along? As moral support?
Billie Offer : Sure, I'm getting an education on what it's like not to be compulsive.
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Huck Cheever : Sam, you're out?
Sam Farha : This guy over there, he never played a live tournament in his life... and he beat me. I don't know if this makes me feel better or worse.
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Huck Cheever : A good fold is as important as a win. Sometimes more important.
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Huck Cheever : He who thinks too much is thinking too much.
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Huck Cheever : I feel like we have a chance at something special here. And if you cut it off now, we'll never know.
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Huck Cheever : Call. Stuck on deuces.
Russian Player : Deuces? All you got is deuces? And you call me with this shit?