Max Dugan Returns (1983)
Jason Robards: Max Dugan
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Quotes
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Michael McPhee : Can you make money from philosophy?
Max Dugan : Yeah, if you have the right one.
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Nora McPhee : How do I know you have six months to live?
Max Dugan : We could sit here and wait.
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Max Dugan : The only thing I ever learned in jail was that it was a terrific place to stay out of.
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Michael McPhee : He's gonna go into philosophy.
Nora McPhee : Why?
Michael McPhee : 'Cause that's what he wanted.
Nora McPhee : Who told you that?
Michael McPhee : Mr. Wittgenstein.
Nora McPhee : Who's Mr. Wittgenstein?
Michael McPhee : Mr. Parker.
Nora McPhee : Mr. Parker is Mr. Wittgenstein?
[doorbell rings]
Nora McPhee : Umm... oh... what did he tell you?... Look, don't go into uhh, what's his name's room. I think there's something severely wrong with him!
[doorbell again]
Max Dugan : Uh, do you want me to get that?
Nora McPhee : It's the police!
Max Dugan : Nevermind.
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Max Dugan : Damn it. I blew it. I could be sitting on a sandy white beach in Brazil right now, drinking Piña Coladas and fornicating my way stright to heaven.
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Max Dugan : You've got enough dirty deals in your life. Don't turn your back on a payoff.
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Max Dugan : Life hasn't been all that wonderful to you, has it Nora?
Nora McPhee : I take what comes along.
Max Dugan : Well, why don't you take the good as well as the bad?
Nora McPhee : When it comes from the same place I get a little suspicious.
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Max Dugan : How do you know I'm Max Dugan?
Nora McPhee : You *told* me you were.
Max Dugan : I told you a lot of things, but so far you haven't liked any of them, so I'll keep on telling new ones until you pick out one you like.
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Nora McPhee : What if we went away together, all of us - to New Mexico, or Arizona. I could teach, get a job , just until...
Max Dugan : And the detective?
Nora McPhee : He's more interested in getting his man than his woman.
Max Dugan : You'd do that for me? Why?
Nora McPhee : I'd miss your pancakes in the morning.
Max Dugan : You've grown into an extraordinary young woman, Nora, and *I* deserve all the credit. If I didn't abandoned you, *God* knows what would have happened to you?
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Max Dugan : My name isn't Parker.
Michael McPhee : Its not?
Max Dugan : No. Its Wittgenstein.
Michael McPhee : Wittgenstein?
Max Dugan : Gus Wittgenstein.
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Max Dugan : Maybe I'm your father, but you're not my daughter. Do you know what Kierkegaard once said?
Nora McPhee : Yes! And I'm not interested in any more of your roommates!
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Max Dugan : [Mike points the camcorder at Max] No, Mike, not me.
Michael McPhee : Why not?
Max Dugan : Well, certain primitive tribes believe that pictures steal your soul, and I don't have too much soul.
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Max Dugan : You won it.
Nora McPhee : What?
Max Dugan : On a TV show.
Nora McPhee : I was never on a TV show!
Max Dugan : It was one of those TV shows you don't have to be on. I was finishing up the breakfast dishes when there's a knock at the door , and in comes a lawyer with a blue suit...
Nora McPhee : No.
Max Dugan : No?
Nora McPhee : No, no. I don't think I won this, I never won anything in my life. This is a mistake!
Max Dugan : But it had your name and address on the invoice. I signed for you. Now, she'll probably have to go down and do a few publicity pictures but the stuff is yours.
Michael McPhee : Maybe it's on the six o'clock news!
Nora McPhee : It's not on the six o'clock news, just turn that off and put everything down... a man with a blue suit, huh?