Hustler Quotes

He was basically a nerd, and he really had wonderful qualities. I`ve never really played a hustler before, but he was absolutely a world-class hustler. A liar lies and a thief steals from you, but a hustler gives you something that you don`t mind parting with your money for. You`re entertained by the meal or the sex or the impression that something is going to happen. You`re given a sense of well-being, and he was good at it. - On his character John Holmes for the movie Wonderland (2003).

I`m not an artist, I`m a hustler. As a hustler I`ve done many things. You should really believe it when I tell you that, `cause I`m not being sarcastic. I`m a total hustler. What that means is I`ve hustled to make a buck and I`ve hustled to change the world and I`ve hustled to take revenge - but it`s always hustling. I`ve never had a career or a single goal. I`ve never been formally educated. To get things together, to make a living, I constantly have to hustle.

I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film.

Well I was always a hustler... I ran numbers; I wasn`t a stick up kid, but I was a fence for them. I used to sell weed; and was kicked out of Music and Art for that.

My character is one of the few people in the town besides Lazarus (played by Samuel L. Jackson) that really understands this woman, ... He`s a hustler but No one else believes in her and they all kind of get down on her. It`s a real cool movie

The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler.

When I`m doing it for charity I feel the freest and the best, ... I lived the life of a hustler for quite a few years, but God brought me out of it and made me a champion.

When they opened the door a whole stack of Hustler magazines flew out into the street. He was clearly busted, clearly shaken, clearly embarrassed.