TV show quotes
This is not very good news is it?
No it is not.
We invested everything we had with you. Our, our life savings.
We knew there would be risks going in. We discussed that.
But we are retired people there is no way that we can re-earn what we have lost. We will lose our house, our car.... Is there anything you can do?
Sorry. Say Hi to Dad.
So Alex what are you going to do? Sell your soul to the devil or your body to someone who is nearsighted?
Jennifer…
Sometimes when you keep a secret all to yourself you get a really bad headache.
Dad, I'm 138 and 0 against you [in chess].
138, 0 and 1. You forgot about the draw.
I had my appendix out that day.
The anesthesia had worn off.
I want you.
You don't want me, Alex. You want another you. You want someone who looks like you, acts like you, thinks like you.
Is that how I acted?
Look, I can't be Alex; I gotta be Ming.
Hey, Alex. How's it going?
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
He seems a bit depressed.
What is wrong with Sherry? You put a brain in that head, you've got a real special girl.
You know what I was doing while I drove home from the station?
Watching the road, I hope.
Counting... Counting all the times you and I have stayed up all night nursing one of the kid's fevers. Guess how many.
Couldn't begin to.
Well, go ahead, try.
17.
That's right. How'd you know?
I don't know. I guess after all our years together, I-I can read your mind.
Guess you can. What am I thinking now?
You're thinking there's no place like home?
You're very good at this, you know? You should set up a booth on the boardwalk.
And you're thinking about our life together and... and everything we've been through. And how hard it would be to turn your back on that, however tempting it might be.
Has it been that obvious?
The words "open book" mean anything to you?
Sorry, Elyse, I've been acting like a real child.
No. No, you haven't. You... you've been acting like a grown man facing midlife. I-I'll probably act the same way when I get to be your age.
Great news. Great news! I got my term paper on Hoover back from Mr. Wilkinson. A-plus.
Nice work, Alex.
Look at this. Look what he wrote on the front. "An incredibly well-argued thesis. "I voted for Roosevelt four times. Thank you for showing me the error of my ways."
I need your help.
Do you want me to write one of your term papers for you?
This is no time for your jokes Mallory.
I never oversleep, never! Never! I have one of those internal clock radios. I had that scholarship in the bag. I blew it!
Speed is like that, Alex, it'll keep you up for a while but um, when you crash, you crash hard.
No, I can handle it.
Well, look at how you're handling it, you're on your knees rummaging through the garbage looking for someone else's diet pills!
[to a young Mallory] It's a pretend phone, Mallory, you can talk on it all day long.
Oh, so that's how it began.
[to Steven and Elyse] You know what it was? You two. You two made marriage look phenomenal; kissing and hugging all the time. Smiling... happy. Shame on you.
I think you're changing Alex.
You may be right Mallory. I really learned a lot about myself today.
What?
Well, I always thought that I knew myself. what I wanted. How I wanted to get it, and apparently, I was wrong.
[Mallory smiles]
I am just going to have to face the cold hard truth that underneath it all, like it or not, I am just a hell of a nice guy.
I don't believe this; you just drank a whole bottle of vanilla extract.
I'm sorry, did you want some?
[after Ned loses it and drops Alex with a punch] ... All right, Ned, that's it. It's over. [icy] Right now, either you get some help or you get the hell out of my house.
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