Basher: So unless we intend to do this job in Reno, we're in barney. [everyone pauses] Basher: Barney Rubble. [they look bewildered] Basher: Trouble!
(63 votes)
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Rusty: What's with the orange? Saul: My doctor says I need vitamins. Rusty: So why don't you take vitamins? Saul: You come here to give me a physical?
(59 votes)
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Danny: Thirteen million and you drive this piece of shit cross country to pick me up? Rusty: Blew it all on the suit.
(60 votes)
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Danny: Does he make you laugh? Tess: He doesn't make me cry.
(57 votes)
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Rusty: Why do this? Danny: Why not do it? [Rusty shakes his head] Danny: Cause yesterday I walked out of the joint after losing four years of my life and you're cold-decking "Teen Beat" cover boys. [pause] Danny: Cause the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, then you take the house. [another pause] Rusty: Been practicing this speech, haven't you? Danny: Little bit. Did I rush it? Felt I rushed it. Rusty: No, it was good, I liked it. The "Teen Beat" thing was harsh.
(48 votes)
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Rusty: The Bellagio and the Mirage. These are Terry Benedict's places. Danny: Yes they are. You think he'll mind?
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Danny: There's a ninety-five pound Chinese man with a hundred sixty million dollars behind this door. Linus: Let's get him out.
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Danny: It's never been tried. Reuben: Ho, ho... "It's never been tried." It's been tried. A few guys even came close. You know the three most successful robberies in the history of Vegas? [flashback - the gaming room at the Horseshow, in black-and-white] Reuben: [voiceover] Number three, the Bronze Medal - pencil-neck grabs a lockbox at the Horseshoe... [a man grabs a lockbox out of a guard's hand and runs for the door, and six guards instantly tackle him to the floor] Reuben: He got two steps closer to the door than any living soul before him. [cut to the present] Reuben: Second most successful robbery... [flashback - the gaming room at the Flamingo, in grainy color. A long-haired man is running for the door, clutching a bag] Reuben: The Flamingo in '71. This guy actually tasted fresh oxygen before they grabbed him. [the man gets within a few feet of the door, before a guard smashes him across the face with a nightstick] Reuben: Of course, he was breathing out of a hose for the next three weeks. Goddamn hippy. [back to the present] Reuben: And the *closest* any man has ever come to robbing a Las Vegas casino... [flashback - outside Caesar's Palace, in color. A man runs out, hunched over an armful of cash, followed by three security guards] Reuben: Was outside of Caesar's in '87. He came, he grabbed... [the three guards shoot the thief in the back] Reuben: They conquered.
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[Basher's original plan for knocking out the casino's power has flopped] Basher: Hang on a minute, hang on... we could use a pinch. Danny: What's a "pinch"? Basher: A pinch is a device which creates, like, a cardiac arrest for any broadband electrical circuitry. Better yet, a pinch is a bomb - now, but without the bomb. See, when a nuclear weapon detonates, it unleashes an electromagnetic pulse which shuts down any power source within its blast radius. Now that tends not to matter in most cases, because the nuclear weapon usually destroys anything you might need power for anyway. But see, a pinch creates a similar electromagnetic pulse, but without the fuss of mass destruction and death. So instead of Hiroshima, you'd be getting the seventeenth century.
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Reuben: Look, we all go way back and uh, I owe you from the thing with the guy in the place and I'll never forget it. Danny: That was our pleasure. Rusty: I'd never been to Belize.
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Danny: Why do they always paint hallways that color? Rusty: They say taupe is very soothing.
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Danny: Saul, are you sure you're ready to do this? Saul: If you ever ask me that question again Daniel, you will not wake up the following morning. Danny: He's ready.
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Danny: Tess, you're doing a great job curating the museum, the Vermeer is quite good, simple, vibrant, but his work definitely fell off as he got older. Tess: Remind you of anyone? Danny: And I always confuse Monet and Manet. Now which one married his mistress? Tess: Monet. Danny: Right, and then Manet had syphilis. Tess: They also painted occasionally.
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Tess: You're a thief and a liar. Danny: I only lied about being a thief, I don't do that anymore. Tess: Steal? Danny: Lie. Tess: I'm with someone who doesn't have to make that kind of distinction. Danny: No, he's very clear on both.
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Tess: You know what your problem is? Danny: I only have one?
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Rusty: Tell me this is not about her, or I am walking. I am walking off this job right now. Danny: Who? Rusty: Tess. Terry Benedict. Tell me this is not about screwing the guy who's screwing your wife. Danny: Ex-wife. Rusty: Tell me. Danny: It's not about that. [pause] Danny: It's not entirely about that. [Rusty turns away, furious.] Danny: Russ, do you remember what we said back when we first got into this business. We said we were gonna play the game... Danny, Rusty: Like we had nothing to lose. Danny: Well, I lost something... I lost someone. That's why I'm here. [long pause] Rusty: Okay, here's the problem – we're stealing two things. And when push comes to shove, and you can't have both, which are you gonna choose? And remember - Tess does not split eleven ways!
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Reuben: What have you guys got against Terry Benedict? Rusty: What do you have against him, that's the question. Reuben: He torpedoed my casino, muscled me out. Now he's gonna blow it up next month to make way for some gaudy monstrosity! Don't think I don't see what you're doing. Rusty: What are we doing, Reuben? Reuben: If you're gonna steal from Terry Benedict, you'd better goddamn know. This sort of thing used to be civilized. You'd hit a guy, he'd whack you, done. But with Benedict... at the end of this, he'd better not know you're involved, not know your names, or think you're dead. Because he'll kill you, and then he'll go to work on you.
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[masquerading as an A.T.F. agent, Rusty shoves Basher against a police car, pretending to search him.] Rusty: [under his breath] Hey, Bash. Basher: Hey, Russ. Rusty: How fast can you put something together from what I just slipped you? Basher: It's done. [Rusty lifts up Basher, and they slowly leave the crime scene] Basher: Hey, is Danny about? Rusty: Yeah, he's waiting around the corner. Basher: Oh, that's terrific! It will be nice working with proper villains again. Rusty: [turns and shouts] Everybody down, now! [they break into a run as explosions rock the crime scene] Basher: Ha-ha-ha! They weren't expecting that shit! Rusty: Nice work. Basher: Oh, thank you.
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Danny: Second task, power - on the night of the fight, we're gonna throw the switch on Sin City. Basher, it's your show. Basher: You want broke, blind, or bedlam? Danny: How about all three? Basher: Right, it's done.
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[while reconnoitering the casinos] Virgil Malloy: [makes a note] Leaving at 2:45. Turk Malloy: 2:46, get a watch that works.
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Rusty: Saul, you're the best there is. What do you want? Saul: Nothing. I've got a duplex now, wall-to-wall, goldfish. I'm seeing a nice lady who works the "Unmentionables" counter at Macy's. I've changed. Rusty: Guys like us don't change, Saul. We either stay sharp or we get sloppy, we don't change.
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Basher: Window or aisle, boys? Yeah, we're in deep shit!
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Basher: That poxy demo crew haven't used a coaxial feed to batten the main line, have they? Instead they've gone and nosed up the backup grid, nosed it right up! Reuben: [to Livingston] Do you understand any of this? Livingston: I'll explain later.
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Topher Grace: Hey Rus, let me ask you a question. Are you incorporated? Well, if not you should really think about it cos I was talking to my manager... Rusty: Bernie? Topher Grace: No, not Bernie, my business manager. You know what? They're both named Bernie. Anyway, he was saying that because what we do here is kind of like research for a future like gig or whatever I can totally make it a tax write off. The only thing is I'd have to pay you by check. [Rusty stops and looks at him] Topher Grace: Or we could stick to cash [Rusty nods] Topher Grace: You know what? Yeah, let's just stick to cash.
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Reuben: I know more about casino security than any man alive, I invented it, and it cannot be beaten. They got cameras, they got locks, they got watchers, they got timers, they got vaults, they got enough armed personnel to occupy Paris! [pause] Reuben: Okay, bad example.
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[sitting in a surveillance van with two FBI agents] FBI Man #2: Let's see if we can zoom in on that guy... FBI Man #1: Yeah. [he reaches for the camera controls] Livingston: Don't - don't - d-don't... Don't touch that. FBI Man #1: Why not? Livingston: Uh, do you see me grabbing the gun out of your holster and just waving it around?
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[watching Linus trapped on the upper floor by security guards] Virgil Malloy: Shouldn't someone help him? Basher: Oh, that's a good idea, Rabbit. Let's hop out of the van and we can all get nicked!
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Rusty: Saul, turn that off, will you? Saul: [in fake accent] I'll turn it off when I'm ready to... Rusty: Saul! Saul: [normal voice] It's off, it's off!
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Rusty: [on Danny walking out of prison in a loosened black-tie suit] I hope you were the Groom. Danny: [on Rusty's attire for picking him up from prison] Ted Nugent called, he wants his shirt back.
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Turk Malloy: Watch it, bud. Virgil Malloy: Who you calling bud, pal? Turk Malloy: Who you calling pal, friend? Virgil Malloy: Who you calling friend, jackass? Turk Malloy: Don't call me a jackass. Virgil Malloy: I just did call you a jackass.
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Danny: [holds up a black wallet] Hello Linus. Whose is this? Linus: Who are you? Danny: A friend of Bobby Caldwell's. [produces a plane ticket] Danny: You're either in or you're out. Right now. Linus: What is it? Danny: It's a plane ticket. A job offer. Linus: You're pretty trusting pretty fast. Danny: Well Bobby has a lot of faith in you. Linus: Fathers are like that.
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[while they are watching a dozen Chinese acrobats at a circus] Danny: Which one is the amazing Yen? Rusty: He's the little Chinese guy.
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[Shaking Billy Tim Denham's hand] Frank: You have lovely hands. Do you moisturize? Billy Tim Denham: I'm Sorry? Frank: You know, I've tried all sorts of moisturizers. I even went fragrance free for a whole year. Now my sister, she uses some kind of uh... uh... uh... uh... aloe vera with a little sunscreen in it, and ideally, we should all wear gloves when going to bed, but I found out that that creates a kind of an interference with my... social agenda, you know what I mean.
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Terry: I know everything that's happening in my hotels. Danny: So I should put the towels back?
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Tess: Danny was walking through the restaurant when he spotted me. Terry: Is that right? Danny: Yeah, imagine the odds. Terry: Of all the gin joints in all the world.
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Rusty: God, I'm bored! Danny: You look bored. Rusty: I am bored! [long pause] Rusty: How was the clink? You get the cookies I sent? Danny: Why do you think I came to see you first?
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Livingston: The moment you set foot on that casino floor, they'll be watching you like hawks. Hawks with video cameras.
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Saul: I have a question, say we get into the cage, and through the security doors there and down the elevator we can't move, and past the guards with the guns, and into the vault we can't open... Rusty: Without being seen by the cameras. Danny: Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot to mention that. Saul: Yeah well, say we do all that... uh... we're just supposed to walk out of there with $150,000,000 in cash on us, without getting stopped? Danny: Yeah. Saul: Oh, ok.
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Rusty: Tell me this is not about her, or I am walking. I am walking off this job right now. Danny: Who? Rusty: Tess. Terry Benedict. Tell me this is not about screwing the guy who's screwing your wife. Danny: Ex wife. It's not about that. [pause] Danny: Not entirely about that. Rusty: Okay, here's the problem. Now we're stealing 2 things. And when push comes to shove, and you can't have both, which are you gonna choose, huh? And remember: Tess does not split 11 ways!
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Linus: Smash and grab job, huh? Rusty: Slightly more complicated than that. Linus: Well, yeah.
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Basher: It will be nice working with proper villains again!
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Linus: Apparently, he's got a record longer than my... well, it's long.
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Danny: You gotta walk before you crawl. Rusty: Reverse that.
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[describing Terry Benedict] Reuben: He'll kill you, then he'll go to work on you.
Parole Board Member #1: Mr Ocean, the purpose of this hearing is to determine, whether, if released, you are likely to break the law again. While this was your first conviction, you have been implicated, though never charged, in over a dozen other confidence tricks and frauds. What can you tell us about those? Danny: As you say, ma'am, I was never charged. Parole Board Member #2: Mr Ocean, what we're trying to find out is was there a reason you chose to commit this crime, or was there a reason you simply got caught this time. Danny: My wife left me. I was upset. I fell into a self-destructive pattern. Parole Board Member #3: If released, is it likely you'd fall back into a similar pattern? Danny: She already left me once. I don't think she'd do it again just for kicks.
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Parole Board Member #1: Good morning. Danny: Morning. Parole Board Member #1: Please state your name for the record. Danny: Daniel Ocean. Parole Board Member #1: Thank you. Mr. Ocean, the purpose of this hearing is to determine whether, if released, you are likely to break the law again.
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Reuben: What? Did you guys get a group rate or something?
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Danny: Livingston, we're set. Rusty: Livingston, we're set. Livingston: Basher, we're set. Basher: Hang on a minute chief. Livingston: We don't have a minute, Yen's gonna suffocate. Basher: Then you'd better leave off bothering me, don't you think?
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Basher: Where we at boys? Livingston: Pins and floor sensors now. Basher: Blinder.
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