Top 40 Molly Bloom Quotes

I felt invisible in my family, and I wanted to be significant like my brothers were significant. I wanted my parents to pay attention, so I went out into the world with that driving me, that grasping, that seeking validation.

I moved to Los Angeles. My parents were not on board with that, and so I had to get a lot of different jobs. One of them was working for a man in Hollywood who had a weekly poker game.

I’m finally my dad’s favourite because Kevin Costner is playing him.

I would love to raise a fund or get some awesome empowered women together and put together an advisory board to get behind female entrepreneurs.

I have been hugely successful at times in my life, and I have also been in ruins. But the lessons I learned on the way up were just as valuable on the way down.

I was in the company of movie stars, important directors, and powerful business tycoons. I felt like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole.

I’ve always been very ambitious and very determined and very compassionate at the same time.

You’re as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it’s just… it’s been really healing, and I’ve found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.

Know when to fold. Pay attention to the signs. They’re there.

Tobey Maguire was the worst tipper, the best player, and the absolute worst loser.

Being humble got me very far when I went to L.A., because it was in stark contrast to this town of people who were so cutthroat.

I lived across from a cornfield when I was growing up.

I’m all about second chances.

My regular game in New York City was a $250,000 buy-in, no limit. So people were burning through that, a lot of times in the first 30 minutes.

I made a lot of mistakes.

I’ve seen what power women have in unification, and I would love to create co-working spaces and networks for female entrepreneurs.

I built the most exclusive and decadent high-profile club for powerful men.

I think everyone can relate to that fall from grace – having life change in an instant or having to stand for some of your bad choices, that feeling of ‘Nothing is ever going to be good again.’

When I’m in a hectic crowd of people, I don’t feel great. I’m looking over my shoulder. I feel exposed.

You can tell a lot about a man’s character by watching him win or lose money.

Literally, if you weren’t the best in the world in my family, it wasn’t impressive.

I was bankrolling the games, vetting the players, extending the credit. My life was really stressful.

I believed that writing my story was my best shot to be able to pay my mom and my attorneys back and pull myself out of this massive crisis that I had put myself in.

I saw someone lose $100 million in one night. When you watch that, as an owner-operator of a game, you realize that these numbers are incredibly unsustainable, incredibly unhealthy. So, I was not happy about this loss. It brought me no joy or adrenaline.

I kept these games pretty intimate. You know, with this much money on the table, with this much risk, you wanted to make people feel safe. They don’t want to feel like they’re part of a spectator’s sport – well, the winners do, but the losers do not.

It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.

I made the choice to go into the world of underground poker.

Even if there are people around to help you, you don’t suffer with an audience; you don’t triumph with an audience.

My mom had put her house up to bail me out of jail!

I’d spent life so terrified of failure that when it happened, it was very liberating.

I did a little soul searching to explore where I had gone wrong, why I made the decisions I did, how my definitions of success and ambition were off. I love a great new pair of shoes – I love to look at my bank account and see zeroes – but what is it attached to?

I hang out with my grandma, go to sleep at 8:30, and that’s it.

I think my dad really wanted me to survive the world. He knew as a psychologist how difficult the world is, and I think he wanted me to be tough.

I created a lot of drama and mess in my life.

In 2009, my tax returns showed over $4 million.

When I was making the most money at the top of my game, driving Bentleys and all that, I felt so existentially empty.

Look at the things you’ve done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.

I approach everything, including sobriety, with the same mentality I approached sports with. You’re going to put in the time. You’ve got to suit up, show up, and keep your eyes on the win.

I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end.

This was 2008, you know. The economy was falling apart, spiraling. And I was hosting a game in New York, and there was $5 to $7 million on the table.