THE HUSTLER:
Bert: I don't think there's a pool player alive shoots better pool than I saw you shoot the other night at Ames. You got talent.
Eddie: So I got talent. So what beat me?
Bert: Character
Eddie: (laughs) Yeah. Sure, sure.
Bert: You're damned right I'm sure. Everybody's got talent. I got talent. You think you can play big-money straight pool, or poker, for forty straight hours on nothing but talent? You think they call Minnesota Fats the best in the country just 'cause he's got talent? Nah. Minnesota Fats's got more character in one finger than you got in your whole skinny body.
THE COLOR OF MONEY:
Janelle: I'm a real big fan of character in people. I don't know if you knew that about me.
Eddie: Character, huh?
Janelle: Yeah.
Bert: I don't think there's a pool player alive shoots better pool than I saw you shoot the other night at Ames. You got talent.
Eddie: So I got talent. So what beat me?
Bert: Character
Eddie: (laughs) Yeah. Sure, sure.
Bert: You're damned right I'm sure. Everybody's got talent. I got talent. You think you can play big-money straight pool, or poker, for forty straight hours on nothing but talent? You think they call Minnesota Fats the best in the country just 'cause he's got talent? Nah. Minnesota Fats's got more character in one finger than you got in your whole skinny body.
THE COLOR OF MONEY:
Janelle: I'm a real big fan of character in people. I don't know if you knew that about me.
Eddie: Character, huh?
Janelle: Yeah.