Max Dugan Returns (1983)

Jason Robards: Max Dugan

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Quotes 

• Michael McPhee : Can you make money from philosophy?

  Max Dugan : Yeah, if you have the right one.

• Nora McPhee : How do I know you have six months to live?

  Max Dugan : We could sit here and wait.

• Max Dugan : The only thing I ever learned in jail was that it was a terrific place to stay out of.

• 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.

• 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.

• Max Dugan : You've got enough dirty deals in your life. Don't turn your back on a payoff.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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?

• Max Dugan : My name isn't Parker.

  Michael McPhee : Its not?

  Max Dugan : No. Its Wittgenstein.

  Michael McPhee : Wittgenstein?

  Max Dugan : Gus Wittgenstein.

• 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!

• 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.

• 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?