Geoffrey Arend: Matt Mahoney

Quotes 

• Matt Mahoney : [strums a note on a balalaika, a traditional Russian stringed instrument, that he sees on Nadine's coffee table] 

  Nadine Tolliver : That's lovely isn't it? That was a present from Boris Yeltsin.

  Matt Mahoney : Do you play?

  Nadine Tolliver : I dabble.

  Matt Mahoney : [laughs] 

  Nadine Tolliver : I had to learn for an experimental piece my dance troupe did in Minsk.

  Matt Mahoney : [impressed and surprised, raises his eyebrows]  Here's to unexpected skills.

• Nadine Tolliver : [turns away from Matt to get something for him from another room in her home] 

  Matt Mahoney : [with facial expressions that register surprise at the high quality and luxury of Nadine's furnishings, artwork, and mementos]  You know, I always figured that you lived more like a...

  Nadine Tolliver : [turns back around toward Matt and raises one eyebrow, as if to stop him from saying something inadvertently insulting] 

  Matt Mahoney : ...I just mean more like me. Half of my furniture is from Ikea. And that's the good half.