Margaret quotes from Becker

Linda

She can help out. She can do half my work.

Margaret

Doing half your work is what you do.

Margaret

Just for today, you are Beth.

I don't like the name Beth.

Linda

I do, can I be Beth?

I want to be Beth too.

Margaret

You can't both be Beth.

Linda

Why? We're both Linda.

Let's pick our own names.

Linda

I want to be Margaret.

No, I want to be Margaret.

Margaret

I want to be dead.

Margaret

Was that a real bible?

Margaret

I'm sorry, John, I have to tell the truth.

Dr. John Becker

[pointing to the jury] You know they can hear you?

Margaret

There's something crawling around inside the walls!

Linda

Oh, you know what? I'll bet it's a rat.

Margaret

I know it's a rat. I'm trying to find it so I can kill it!

Dr. John Becker

What's the big deal? He's probably just another rat here to make it on the great rat way.

Linda

It's such a difficult life for them. So much disappointment.

Dr. John Becker

(reading a lab report) Oh, my god.

Linda

No, no. Some make it.

Dr. John Becker

This is incredible. It's from the lab. They made a mistake on Mr. Garland's test results. He's fine.

Margaret

(reads the report) Oh, my god, John. You told the man he was dying!

Dr. John Becker

Yeah, well he's not. I gotta get him on the phone here. I can't believe the lab screwed up like that.

Linda

Yeah, well he's not the only one that's happened to. I sent the film for my vacation to the lab and they totally lost it.

Dr. John Becker

Different lab, Linda!

Linda

All's I'm saying the guy's got the rest of his life to look forward to. I spent a week in Bermuda and have no idea what I did.

Margaret

(on the phone) Can you come here right away?

Dr. John Becker

Who are you talking to?

Margaret

(on phone) No, I don't care how much it costs.

Dr. John Becker

Now I don't care who you're talking to. (hangs up)

Margaret

John, that was the exterminator! I want that thing out of here!

Dr. John Becker

Margaret, it's just a rat! Why do you hate it so much, anyway?

Margaret

Because, when I was a child, my father bought me a little dog--

Dr. John Becker

Oh, please, please. Is this going to be that urban legend story where the dog turns out to be a rat?

Margaret

No. This is my sixth birthday party where my dog was EATEN by a rat!

Dr. John Becker

... Beats pin the tail on the donkey, I guess...

Dr. John Becker

What the hell's that?

Margaret

Mr. Pearson.

Dr. John Becker

Oh, yeah. Right.

Dr. John Becker

You know, I never thought I'd say this, but I'm beginning to think that Linda was right about all that astrology crap.

Margaret

Oh, that's nonsense. Strange things don't happen to you because of the planets or numerology or any of that junk. If your faith in the Lord was as strong as mine, you'd know that. You lead a good life, you'd go to Heaven. If you don't, you suffer the consequences.

Excuse me.

Margaret

(takes one look at him) Oh, sweet Jesus. Um, are you a new patient?

Yes, I am.

Margaret

And your name is...?

I'm known by many names... Jim, James, Jimbo.

Margaret

(to Becker) You take him, I'll get the rat.

Dr. John Becker

Aw, Margaret, will you let go of that rat thing?

Margaret

(poking the ceiling with a broom) I can't, John. He's up there. I know he is.

Dr. John Becker

All right, get down. Get down. If it'll make you feel better, I'll go take a look.

Margaret

All right.

Margaret

You see anything?

Dr. John Becker

(A huge rat shadow suddenly passes by him) Oh. Sweet Jesus.

Margaret

Jake, you've got to see this.

Jake Malinak

I'm blind.

Margaret

[on the phone] I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

Margaret

What did you do?

Dr. John Becker

I don't know.

Margaret

I don't like to lie. It's wrong.

Dr. John Becker

Says who?

Margaret

The Lord!

Dr. John Becker

The Lord? Margaret, this is the Bronx. Believe me, he's not here.

Dr. John Becker

Just when I think God couldn't screw me any further, he gets out the old Black & Decker and twists a little harder!

Margaret

Interesting; you're being persecuted by a God you don't believe in.

Dr. John Becker

That's why he's after me, Margaret.

Dr. John Becker

What does he want?

Margaret

To bask in the sunny warmth of your disposition.

Dr. John Becker

Did you ever hear me say that?

Margaret

No, but it certainly sounds like you!