Quotes from Molly Bloom

High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.

The chemistry at a table is so important. You must start with a carefully balanced mix of personalities. If the balance is off, and the stakes are too big for some of the players, it kills the game. Too small, and everybody gets bored.

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.'

I don't think anyone's private life stands up to public scrutiny.

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

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 think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.

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 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 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 think, before I had money, I believed that money would solve my problems, that it would give me power and I wouldn't have financial stress anymore, and it would completely change my life. And then, when I had money, it changed a lot of things, but it didn't change the way I felt inside at all.

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

I've been rich; I've been poor. I've been successful; I've been decimated. And the way I felt inside didn't change dramatically. It's less stressful to have money, that's for sure. But that doesn't mean I felt fulfilled. So I've learned to live in the smaller moments of life.

In terms of my own life and the mistakes I made and the struggles I had, I'm grateful for them. It taught me more than success and opportunity ever did.

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

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

I don't really miss the Hollywood lifestyle.