Nothing in Common (1986)

Hector Elizondo: Charlie Gargas

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• Charlie Gargas : At the end, I had my father in a nursing home. I gave him the best doctors in Illinois. He was a little senile... not much. I never spent much time with him. I was too busy. Finally, when I got around to seeing him, he didn't recognize me. Till the day he died, he didn't know who the hell I was.

  David Basner : Here I thought you were the perfect son, Charlie.

  Charlie Gargas : No. They told me there was only one of those guys. Listen, you take care of what you've got to take care of. I'll take care of Woolridge.

• Charlie Gargas : David, I know that you've received at least two other offers from agencies. You turn them down or else I'm gong throw you right out your new window.

  David Basner : Oh, Charlie, there' not boing to make me a partner. Why would I go with anybody else?

  Charlie Gargas : Partner? Boyle, Gargas, Lionel and Basner?

  David Basner : Like John, Paul, George and Ringo.

• Charlie Gargas : You're pretty cocky.

  David Basner : No. No, just pretty capable.

• Charlie Gargas : I know, I didn't just fall off the turnip truck.

• David Basner : He's private. He's cautious, He's conservative. He's, you know, a man of few words.

  Charlie Gargas : Or, maybe he's dumb, paranoid and totally off his rocker. Nobody knows for sure.

• David Basner : Did we lose the account?

  Charlie Gargas : No, I calmed Woolridge down. But, I told him that I'd have you thrown out naked out of a leer jet - you know, the usual punishment.