Robert Prosky credited as playing...
Nick
- Nick: There are lots of things worse than movies: politicians, wars, forest fires, famine, plague, sickness, pain, warts, politicians...
- Jack Slater: You already mentioned them.
- Nick: I know I did. They are twice as bad as anything else.
- Nick: This is a wonderful moment for me, Mr. Slater. I've never met a fictional character before. How new and exciting this must all be for you.
- Jack Slater: Hey, I just found out I was imaginary. I mean, how would you feel is somebody made you up? Your job, your marriage, your kids. Oh, yeah. Let's push his son off the building. Gives you nightmares for the rest of your life. But you're fictional, so who cares? I'm sorry. But I don't find this new and exciting to discover that my whole life has been a damn movie.
- Nick: Could I have the ticket back, please?
- Danny Madigan: Well, um, we've got this one little... um, hiccup.
- Nick: What do you mean "hiccup?"
- Danny Madigan: Benedict's here too and he's got the ticket.
- Nick: That madman with the glass eye?
- [turns to Jack]
- Nick: How the hell are you gonna get back?
- Jack Slater: That's a good question. But wouldn't want to "nitpick." Right, Danny?
- [through the magic of Houdini's movie ticket, the theater projectors come to life and begin running by themselves]
- Nick: [cheering] Let's hear it for Houdini!
- Nick: Just a minute, young man. Are we not forgetting something? You have to have a ticket to see a movie. And I have just the one. When I was your age, Harry Houdini played here and I met him backstage. And he made a gesture like this. And all of a sudden this was in his hand. And he said to me: "This is a magic ticket. I got it from an Indian magician, who got it from a Tibetan magician. It is a passport to another world. It was mine. And now it is yours."
- [hands the ticket to Danny]
- Nick: [nonchalantly] And now it's yours.