George Raft quotes

George Raft quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.”
-- George Raft

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“I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.”
-- George Raft

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“Who ever heard of Casablanca? I don't want to star opposite some unknown Swedish broad.”
-- George Raft

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“I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.”
-- George Raft

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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“My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.”
“A camel is a horse designed by committee.”

Source : Gordon R. Dickson (1978). “The Far Call”
“Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.”

Source : Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”
“If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?”
“Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.”

Source : Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.133, University of Georgia Press
“If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.”
“You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
“You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.”
“I don't like inherited wealth.”
“Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?”

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