Game 6 (2005)

Michael Keaton: Nicky Rogan

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Quotes 

• Anatoli Kaganovich : I opened thousands of brains.

  Nicky Rogan : What'd you find?

  Anatoli Kaganovich : Big mess every time.

• Nicky Rogan : The Red Soxs are always winning, until they lose.

• [Nicky Rogan, in a taxi cab, sees his daughter in an adjacent taxi, exits his, and joins her in hers] 

  Nicky Rogan : How come I don't see you any more? Where are you, all day?

  Laurel Rogan : [laughs sardonically]  I'm at college. Thought you knew.

  Nicky Rogan : You wanna get a coffee?

  Laurel Rogan : I don't drink coffee, Daddy. This is not what we should be talking about.

  Nicky Rogan : What do you want to talk about? I'll talk about anything you want to talk about. What's this?

  [He picks up her radio] 

  Laurel Rogan : Senior Play tonight, remember?

  Nicky Rogan : Why do you need a radio?

  Laurel Rogan : So I can listen to the ball game at intermissions! Do you know that Mother is seeing a prominent divorce lawyer?

  Nicky Rogan : Don't talk like that! Man! How prominent? What are you implying?

  Laurel Rogan : She's doing like those Iranians. I divorce thee. I divorce thee. I divorce thee.

• Nicky Rogan : I don't get it. What's the fuss?

  Elliott Litvak : He reviewed that one-act I did at the Fulton Fish Market. We did this play at four in the morning. Outdoors. In the rain. One performance. For fish handlers.

  Nicky Rogan : And he was there?

  Elliott Litvak : Steven Schwimmer. I memorized every line of this review.

  Nicky Rogan : That's awful.

  Elliott Litvak : I recite it to myself with masochistic relish.

• Elliott Litvak : I can't write one word without imagining what his response is going to be. I am paralyzed as an artist.

  Nicky Rogan : See, I don't have the problems you artists have.

  Elliott Litvak : You've been saying that for years.

  Nicky Rogan : What?

  Elliott Litvak : "No, I'm just a professional. I'm a dues-paying member of the Guild." You are afraid, Nicky. That's the darkest part of you.

• Nicky Rogan : When the Mets lose, they just lose. It's a flat feeling; there's nothing there. Now the Red Sox, now, here, we have a rich history of really fascinating ways to lose a crucial game. You know what I mean? Defeats that just keep you awake at night. They pound in your head like the hammer of fate. Yeah, you can analyze a Red Sox game day and night for a month and still uncover really complex layers of feelings. Feelings you didn't even know you were capable of having. Yeah. That kind of pain has a memory all of its own.

• Nicky Rogan : I coulda been happy. I coulda been a Yankees fan.

• Lillian Rogan : I want to be fair-minded, Nicky.

  Nicky Rogan : [taking his attention away from the ball game on the pub's television]  All right. All right. Okay. What's going on?

  Lillian Rogan : I've been talking to a prominent divorce lawyer.

  Nicky Rogan : [very seriously]  How prominent?

  Lillian Rogan : He has his own submarine.

• [Toyota has mistaken Nicky for a murderous gangster, but because he speaks quietly, she speaks fearlessly] 

  Toyota Moseby : Your problem is, you want to take the easy way out. Losing is easy.

  Nicky Rogan : No. Winning is easy. Losing is complicated. Losing's a lifetime's work.

• [They are watching the baseball game in a pub] 

  Toyota Moseby : Life is good!

  Nicky Rogan : Baseball is life!