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"Now what in hell am I going to tell this boy Schaefer's parents? That a substitute nurse assassinated him because she couldn't tell the doctors from the patients on the floor? My God! The incompetence in this hospital is absolutely radiant... I mean, where do you train your nurses, Mrs. Christie, Dachau!?"
"You're greedy, unfeeling, inept, indifferent, self-inflating, and unconscionably profitable. Besides that, I have nothing against you. I'm sure you play a hell of a game of golf."
"We've got a 23-year-old boy. I threw him out of the house last year. A shaggy-haired Maoist. I don't know where he is. Presumably, building bombs in basements as an expression of universal brotherhood."
"I'm middle class. Among us middle class, love doesn't triumph over all - responsibility does."
"Within a week, my father had closed his Beacon Hill practice and set out to start a mission in the Mexican Mountains. I turned in my SDS card and my crash helmet, and I followed him. It was a disaster, at least for me. My father had received the revelation, not I. He stood gaunt on a mountain slope and preached the Apocalypse to solemnly amused Indians. I masturbated a great deal. We lived in a grass wickiup, ate raw rabbit and crushed piñon nuts. It was hideous. Within two months, I was back in Boston. A hollow shell, disenchanted with everything, and dizzy with dengue. I turned to austerity, combed my hair tight, entered nursing school. I became haggard, driven - had shamelessly incestuous dreams about my father. I took up with some of the senior staff there. One of them a portly psychiatrist, explained I was generated by an unresolved lust for my father. I cracked up. One day, they found me walking to work naked and screaming obscenities. There was talk of institutionalizing me. So I packed a bag and went back to join my father in the Sierra Madre Mountains. I've been there ever since. That's three years. My father is, of course, as mad as a hatter. I watch over him, and have been curiously content. You see, Doctor, I believe in everything."
"Mr. Blacktree disapproves of my miniskirt, the only thing I had to come to the city with. Back at the tribe, I wear ankle-length buckskin."
"You're a very tired, very damaged man. You've had a hideous marriage, I assume a few tacky affairs along the way. You're understandably reluctant to get involved again. On top of that, here I am with this preposterous idea you throw everything up and go off with me to some barren mountains in Mexico. Utterly mad, I know. On the other hand, you obviously find this world as desolate as I do. You did try to kill yourself last night. So that's it, Herb. Either me and the mountains or - a bottle of potassium."
"This is Dr. Ives. He's in the Nephrology Lab. I was in there a little while ago, and he was suddenly taken ill, and I thought I'd better get him over here right away. He had at that time perhaps an hour to live. Prompt treatment would have saved his life. As a staff doctor, he was seen without preliminaries... His vital signs were taken, an electrocardiogram... which revealed occasional ventricular premature contractions. An intern took his history... and then he was promptly... simply... forgotten to death."
"I am the fool for Christ, and Paraclete of Caborca."
"Mislaid. Mislaid among the broken wrists, the chest pains, the scalp lacerations, the man whose fingers were crushed in a taxi door, the infant with a skin rash, the child swiped by a car, the old lady mugged in the subway, the derelict beaten by sailors, the teenage suicide, the paranoids, drunks, asthmatics, the rapes, the septic abortions, the overdosed addicts, the fractures, infarcts, hemorrhages, concussions, boils, abrasions, the colonic cancers, the cardiac arrests - the whole wounded madhouse of our times."
"Mrs. Cushing: Dr. Spezio, may I see you for a moment, Doctor, if you don't mind? Doctor is this your handwriting, if you don't mind? Am I supposed to read this? Was that a sprain? Was that a broken wrist? I can't read that scribbling. I mean I have to bill these people. I know you doctors are the ministering angels and I'm the bitch from the accounting department, but I've a job to do too. I mean, if you don't mind, Doctor."
"Behind the lab coat beats the heart of a man who's been pushed to the edge."
"Madness, Murder and Malpractice."
"Watch them operate!"
"I may be crazy, but I think I've operated on the wrong patient."
"George C. Scott - Dr. Herbert "Herb" Bock"
"Diana Rigg - Miss Barbara Drummond"
"Robert Walden - Dr. Brubaker"
"Barnard Hughes - Edmund Drummond (and an uncredited role as Dr. Mallory, the OB/GYN who discovers he's got the wrong patient.)"
"Richard A. Dysart - Dr. Welbeck"
"Stephen Elliott - Dr. John Sundstrom"
"Andrew Duncan - William "Willie" Mead"
"Donald Harron - Dr. Milton Mead"
"Nancy Marchand - Mrs. Christie, Head of Nurses"
"Jordan Charney - Hitchcock, Hospital Administration"
"Roberts Blossom - Guernsey"
"Lenny Baker - Dr. Howard Schaefer"
"Richard Hamilton - Dr. Ronald Casey"
"Arthur Junaluska - Mr. Blacktree"
"Kate Harrington - Nurse Dunne"
"Katherine Helmond - Mrs. Marilyn Mead"
"David Hooks - Dr. Joe Einhorn"
"Frances Sternhagen - Mrs. Sally Cushing"
"Stockard Channing - E.R. Nurse"
"All of life is a coming home. Salesmen, secretaries, coal miners, beekeepers, sword swallowers, all of us. All the restless hearts of the world, all trying to find a way home. It's hard to describe what I felt like then. Picture yourself walking for days in the driving snow; you don't even know you're walking in circles. The heaviness of your legs in the drifts, your shouts disappearing into the wind. How small you can feel, and how far away home can be. Home. The dictionary defines it as both a place of origin and a goal or destination. And the storm? The storm was all in my mind. Or as the poet Dante put it: In the middle of the journey of my life, I found myself in a dark wood, for I had lost the right path. Eventually, I would find the right path, but in the most unlikely place."
"I'm really starting to love the back of your head."
"You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome."
"[standing on the edge of a cliff contemplating suicide. He talks to God . . ] So what now, huh? What do you want from me? [looks down over cliff, a rock tumbles off] Yeah, I could do it. We both know you wouldn't stop me. So answer me please. Tell me what you're doing. Okay, let's look at the logic. You create man. Man suffers enormous amounts of pain. Man dies. Maybe you should have had just a few more brainstorming sessions prior to creation. You rested on the seventh day. Maybe you should've spent that day on compassion. [looks down over the cliff again] You know what? You're not worth it. [walks away from the cliff]"
"Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death."
"We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease."
"We can head on down to the maternity ward. You know those chicks put out."
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close."
"What's wrong with death, sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference."
"Hey, I'm trying to lose a little weight, here. Have I lost too much? Have I gone too far? Got a boner. I am a boner."
"I wanted to become a doctor so I could serve others. And because of that, I've lost everything. But I've also gained everything."
"You're focusing on the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution. Never focus on the problem!"
"See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!"
"Lesbian, airhead, ballbuster, whichever one of these disgusts you the most, take your pick. Please spread the word: I'm not here to date. I'm not here to flirt. I'm here to study."
"Men have been attracted to me all my life. All my life. [pause, she tears up] When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched."
"Robin Williams as Hunter "Patch" Adams"
"Daniel London as Truman Schiff"
"Monica Potter as Carin Fisher"
"Philip Seymour Hoffman as Mitch Roman"
"Bob Gunton as Dean Walcott"
"Josef Sommer as Dr. Eaton"
"Irma P. Hall as Joletta"
"Frances Lee McCain as Judy"
"Harve Presnell as Dean J. P. Anderson"
"Daniella Kuhn as Adelane"
"Peter Coyote as Bill Davis"
"James Greene as Bile"
"Michael Jeter as Rudy"
"Harold Gould as Arthur Mendelson"
"Bruce Bohne as Trevor Beene"
"Harry Groener as Dr. Prack"
"Barry Shabaka Henley as Emmet"
"Steven Anthony Jones as Charlie"
"Richard Kiley as Dr. Titan"
"Douglas Roberts as Lawrence "Larry" Silver"
"Based On A True Story."
"Laughter is contagious."
"You can't keep me from learning. You can't keep me from studying. So you have a choice-- you could have me as a professional colleague... passionate... or you can have me as an outspoken outsider, still adamant. Either way, I'll probably still be viewed as a thorn. But I promise you one thing. I am a thorn that will not go away. ... You done? I hope not, sir. We will adjourn briefly then."
"Friends! Fellow members of the human race! We are gathered here for a purpose. Let us look together at mankind. What do we see? We see mastery. What wonders mankind can perform. He can cross the oceans and continents today, as easily as our grandfathers crossed the street. Tomorrow he will as easily cross the vast territories of space. He can make deserts fertile and plant cabbages on the Moon. And what does man choose? Alone among the creatures of this world, the human race chooses to annihilate itself. Since the last world conflict ended there has not been one day in which human beings have not been slaughtering or wounding one another in 230 different wars. And man breeds as recklessly as he lays waste. By the end of the century, the population of the world will have tripled. Two thirds of our plant species will have been destroyed, 55% of the animal kingdom and 70% of our mineral resources. Out of every hundred human beings now living 80 will die without ever knowing what it feels like to be fully nourished, while a tiny minority indulge themselves in absurd and extravagent luxuries. A motion picture entertainer of North America will receive as much money in a month as would feed a starving South American tribe for a hundred years! We waste! We destroy! And we cling like savages to our superstitions. We give power to leaders of state and church as prejudiced and small-minded as ourselves who squander our resources on instruments of destruction while millions continue to suffer and go hungry, condemned forever to lives of ignorance and deprivation. And why is this? It is because mankind has denied intelligence, the unique glory of our species... the human brain.Man is entering an era of infinite possibility, still imprisoned in a feeble, inefficient body. Still manacled by primitive notions of morality, which have no place in an age of science. Still powered by a brain that has hardly developed since the species emerged from the caves. Only a new intelligence can save mankind! Only a new human being of pure brain can lead man forward into the new era. I do not speak of dreams. Such a being exists already. I have created it! It is here, now! Prepare yourselves to meet the human of the future. Neither man nor woman. Greater than either. I have given it a name. Genesis. Birth. A new birth. A new beginning for mankind. People of today, behold your future!"
"An remember, an insult to me is an insult to every non-skilled operative in this hospital. Now just you think on."
"This celebration is for all of us. The old days are gone forever Vincent. Britannia belongs to all of us now."
"General Wetherby I didn't have 50 years in India to end up bedding down with a lot of wogs!"
"Malcolm McDowell - Mick Travis"
"Graham Crowden - Professor Millar"
"Leonard Rossiter - Vincent Potter"
"Brian Pettifer - Biles"
"John Moffatt - Greville Figg"
"Fulton Mackay - Chief Superintendent Johns"
"Vivian Pickles - Matron"
"Barbara Hicks - Miss Tinker"
"Jill Bennett - Dr. MacMillan"
"Peter Jeffrey - Sir Geoffrey"
"Joan Plowright - Phyllis Grimshaw"
"Robin Askwith - Ben Keating"
"Dave Atkins - Sharkey"
"Roger Martin - Demonstrator"
"Mark Hamill - Red"
"Richard Griffiths - Cheerful Bernie"
"Arthur Lowe - hospital patient"
"Alan Bates - Macready"
"Dandy Nichols - Florrie"
"Betty Marsden - Hermione"
"Liz Smith - Maisie"
"T.P. McKenna - Theatre Surgeon"
"Michael Medwin - Theatre Surgeon"
"Valentine Dyall - Mr Rochester"
"Robert Pugh - Picket"
"My son is dying, and I'm broke. If I don't qualify for Medicare, who the hell does?"
"Your hospital's under new management now! Yeah! Yeah from now on, free health care for everyone!"
"I am not going to bury my son! My son is going to bury me!"
"[to Rebecca; angrily] I would tell you what I think of you...but I'm a Christian woman."
"[in a debate on healthcare] Shut up. Enough already. I've heard all the bitching and moaning I can stand for one day, alright? Look, if you want to regard me as some kind of blood-sucking vampire, then fine, great, I'll be the bad guy. [points at John] But who's holding the fucking gun?"
"Jimmy Palumbo: [Interviewed by Tuck Lampley] I've got to be honest this whole thing sucks, it could've all been avoided incredibly easy, none of this had to happen if John could've been a millionaire or if his last name was Rockefeller, sometimes he doesn't understand what we hold sacred in this country isn't values, its "value" that's important, we've got haves and we've got have not we've got white collar, blue collar and then we've got no collar, inside the hospital we've got "luck surgery" and "out of luck surgery", there's a lot of people out there who don't have two hundred fifty grand in their bill fold, seeing a man like that backing into a corner it seems to me "something" is out of whack, not "someone.""
"Give a father no options and you leave him no choice."
"Desperate times call for desperate measures."
"Denzel Washington - John Quincy Archibald"
"Kimberly Elise - Denise Archibald"
"Daniel E. Smith - Michael "Mike" Archibald"
"James Woods - Dr. Raymond Turner"
"Anne Heche - Rebecca Payne"
"Robert Duvall - Lt. Frank Grimes"
"Ray Liotta - Chief Gus Monroe"
"Shawn Hatosy - Mitch Quigley"
"Heather Wahlquist - Julie Byrd"
"David Thornton - Jimmy Palumbo"
"Laura Harring - Gina Palumbo"
"Troy Beyer - Miriam Smith"
"Kevin Connolly - Steve Maguire"
"Troy Winbush - Steve Smith"
"Vanessa Branch - Nurse"
"Eddie Griffin - Lester Matthews"
"Martha Chaves - Rosa Gonzales"
"Larissa Laskin - Dr. Ellen Klein"
"Ethan Suplee - Guard Max Conlin"
"Obba Babatundé - Sgt. Moody"
"Paul Johansson - Tuck Lampley"
"Dina Waters - Debby Utley"
"Keram Malicki-Sánchez - Freddy B."
"You Don't Have A Ghost Of A Chance"
"Trish Coren — Jessie Holden"
"M. Steven Felty — Jacob"
"Jilon VanOver — Kevin"
"Nicole Rayburn — Marie"
"Josh Holt — Freddy"
"Michael Samluk — Allan"
"Rachel Melvin — Meg"
"Dig Wayne — Arlo Ray Baine/Dynamite Jones"
"Happy Mahaney — Emmett"
"Dee Wallace — Nurse Russell/Jessie's Mom"
"Taylor Hurley — The Ghost Girl"
"Your driver will be ready as soon as he puts on his pants."
"I read in an interview with Hugh Grant, he said he doesn't smile because it makes his face look fat. So I didn't smile in pictures for many years."
"Apparently, there are good and bad comas. And the kind that they put her in, the medically induced ones, are definitely the good kind of coma. Like you know how there are good and bad carbs? Gremlins, those can be good or bad."
"Look at me. Look me in the eyes when you fuck me! Look at me. PLEASE! (after fast-food worker refuses his order)"
"It’s just really hard to do standup comedy when your girlfriend is in a coma."
"(to Kumail) Naw dog. I'm not joking. You're not funny to me. You just make me sad. You make me sad inside of my heart, and it makes me sad to look at you. So I think you should probably go. Just go and tell my mom I want her. (Kumail is stunned.) Will you please get my mom?"
"So, uh, 9/11? No, I mean, I've always wanted to have a conversation about it with... (pauses) people."
"Azmat Nanjiani: (to Kumail) You should be stylish like your father. It's not very difficult. Just observe me."
"Sharmeen Nanjiani: Since when are you someone to stand up? You know who I think should stand up is Malala. She has something to say, she has something to say!"
"Naveed Nanjiani: Listen to yourself. You hardly sound Pakistani. "Cookies"? You sound like Julia Louis-Dreyfus. You're such a burger."
"An Awkward True Story"
"(...quote...)"
"Kumail Nanjiani — Kumail Nanjiani"
"Zoe Kazan — Emily Gardner"
"Ray Romano — Terry Gardner"
"Holly Hunter - Beth Gardner"
"Anupam Kher - Azmat Nanjiani"
"Zenobia Shroff - Sharmeen Nanjiani"
"Adeel Akhtar - Naveed Nanjiani"
"Sidney Poitier - Dr. Luther Brooks"
"Maude Simmons - Luther's mother (uncredited)"
"Richard Widmark - Ray Biddle"
"Dick Paxton - John Biddle (uncredited)"
"Linda Darnell - Edie Johnson, John Biddle's widow"
"Stephen McNally - Dr. Dan Wharton"
"Mildred Joanne Smith - Cora Brooks"
"Harry Bellaver - George Biddle"
"Stanley Ridges - Dr. Sam Moreland"
"Dots Johnson - "Lefty" Jones"