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Chuck Rhoades Quotes

Total quotes: 25
“The best way to bond with someone isn’t doing a favor, it’s asking for one.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Billions Season 2: The Oath
Tagged: Making Friends, favors, Quote of the Moment
“Every man is a junkie for something.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: The Good Life
Tagged: Addictions, Greed, Junkies
“Don't serve rabbit food to an elephant and ask if he's full.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Billions Season 2: Risk Management
Tagged: The Game, Hungry for Success, Never Stop, TV Quotes
“No one quits while they’re ahead. This isn’t France. It’s America.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: The Good Life
Tagged: Quitting, America vs. France
“Calculation is not something to be scoffed at. It's a tool. A tactic. And I use it proudly and often.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: Icebreaker
Tagged: Calculation, Conspiracy
“What we do has consequences, intended or unintended. The decisions we make, The actions we bring—have weight.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Decisions, actions, Consequences
“You know the only enemy more dangerous than a man with unlimited resources is one with nothing to lose. And that is what you are looking at right here.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: The Conversation
Tagged: Enemy, danger, nothing to lose
“A man facing a firing squad has only two choices, accept it or push against his restraints.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Elementary, Season 2: Solve for X
Tagged: Double Bind, Impossible Choice, Catch 22
“We all mask certain emotions, often our most intense ones, like Bjorn Borg did. But like Borg, eventually, it'll end up costing you everything.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: Tie Goes to the Runner
Tagged: Festering, emotions, Bjorn Borg
“Oliver: That is tampering. 

Chuck: No. It's finesse.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: The Wrong Maria Gonzalez
Tagged: Cheating Or Strategy?, Grey Ethical Lines, Ethics, Tampering With Evidence, Taking Control of Fate
“You need me, because I am willing to stare into the abyss beyond conventional morality and do what needs to be done.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: The Punch
Tagged: Will Do Anything, Screw Ethics
“You wouldn't know the right thing to do if it kneeled down and sucked your tiny goddamn cock!”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: insults
“A good matador doesn’t try to kill a fresh bull. You wait until he’s been stuck a few times.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Blindspot, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: strategy, Wear Them out, Winning, Prey
“I had managed something better than payback. By acting with purpose and understatement, I had created a more just environment, which is what I am asking of all of you. This is the new way.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Elementary, Season 1: Risk Management
Tagged: Creative Mercy, Forgiveness as Punishment, Political Machinations, Christian Archetypes
“Our practices leave grooves over time. And eventually, those grooves become walls that box us in.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Elementary, Season 1: Risk Management
Tagged: Habit, Routine, (Example of Good Tags), How You Get Stuck
“What is it about a woman taking it into her mouth after a little raw-dogging that just seems so right? And it’s just this: that I’m accepted for who I am.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: Yumtime
Tagged: Ass-to-Mouth, Raw-Dogging, dirty
“Guarantee is a word that amateurs use in politics.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: Magical Thinking
Tagged: Politics, lying
“We will retreat so we can attack when it is to our advantage.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: Quality of Life
Tagged: Patience, strategy, Planning Ahead
“The trap was time.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Billions Season 2: Currency
Tagged: Patience, Timing, strategy
“As long as justice is served, credit doesn't matter.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: Tie Goes to the Runner
Tagged: Justice, In The Service of Justice Only
“The douchebag apple doesn't fall far from the douchebag tree.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: Where the F*ck is Donnie?
Tagged: douchebag, Like Father Like Son
“They may be cheering now, but believe me, they are dying to boo.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: crowds, Waiting for You To Fail
“Self-righteousness is an indulgence I cannot afford.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: Icebreaker
Tagged: Self-Righteousness, Moral Superiority
“Maybe generations from now, they’ll tell stories about you, like they do Jesse James or Billy the Kid. The myth is so fucking romantic.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: The Conversation
Tagged: Billy the Kid, Myth, jesse james, Romantic
“You know what it takes to find a truffle? A hog, a dog, whatever keenly scented, carefully trained animal gets the assignment, spends a lifetime traipsing through the dark, sniffing out the slightest aroma. And only then the digging begins. And what do you think they’re digging through?Shit. That’s the thing we don’t say much about, right? The things we most value, the things we pay most dearly to ingest are grown in shit.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Billions Season 2: The Kingmaker
Tagged: Mushrooms, All Is Shit, What We Value
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