The Four Seasons (1981)
Len Cariou: Nick Callan
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Quotes
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Nick : [to Jack, about Anne's obsessive photography of vegetables] For a year and a half, all we talked about was zucchini. Then for another year it was green peppers--that was a nice change.
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Ginny : [to the other couples] I've just about had it with you people!
Nick : What's the matter?
Ginny : I'll tell you what's the matter... I'm mad!
[slight pause]
Nick : [concerned] Ginny?
Ginny : I fall in love with this man and all of a sudden in addition to him, I've got four constant companions! I have to work out a new relationship with somebody who is going through the worst period of his life, only I can't do it alone! I've got to do it in front of four other people! And it's not as if my privacy was invaded. You all let me know every single day that I have been intruding on your territory! Let me tell you something: As far as I'm concerned, you are all demanding and unforgiving... every single one of you. Everybody is sweet and warm and civil, but everybody ignores me! I'm like a leper! I'm... I'm a blank spot where Annie used to be."
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Nick : [to Jack, about Anne] She remembers the day she got her tooth filled. Christ, I can hardly remember the first time I got laid.
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Nick : [trying to get Lisa out of her depressed mood] You've made some friends at your dorm, right?
Lisa : Not really. Most of the people I've met here have a peculiar idea of a good time.
Nick : Like what?
Lisa : They get drunk and piss off the balconies.
Nick : [laughs] What about the girls?
Lisa : I'm talking about the girls.
Nick : You're kidding me, right?
Lisa : I'm kidding you? You think it's a joke to have to walk home on a clear night with an umbrella?
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Nick : I don't understand. I've hurt you in some way?
Jack : I happen to know you betrayed your wife dozens of times.
Nick : If I did, that's what I did to her. What did I do to you?
Jack : You didn't tell either of us.
Nick : Hey, wait a minute. Let's take you one at a time. You can understand my not telling her, right?
Jack : I can't understand you saying on the one hand that you could tell me anything. And on the other hand not telling me a goddamn thing except what suits you. I feel as betrayed as she does.
Nick : Jack, all I've ever gotten from you is judgment and disapproval and you expect me to come and tell you every time I've had an affair with a hatcheck girl?
Jack : That's who you were having affairs with? Hatcheck girls?
Nick : No! They were all intelligent, worthy women. The top people in their field. I can't tell you all their names but two of them were Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi.
Jack : When you wanna talk intelligently, I'll talk. Otherwise, forget it.
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Ginny : [about Anne] You know, I don't want to talk her down, but she is unreliable. I mean Nick has made three appointments to meet her down at his lawyer's office and she's never shown up. She hasn't even called.
Claudia Zimmer : Now wait a minute. No offense, Ginny, but 21 years ago Nick said he would be there on the other side of the bed every morning and for the last six months he hasn't kept his appointment either!
Jack : [flustered] OK, look. All right, all right. Let's calm down. It's not all that bad. It's just a little embarassing.
Nick : I don't see what the big problem is. We're all adults. We'll just say hello and uh...
Danny : Have a nervous breakdown.
Claudia Zimmer : [approaching Ginny] Ginny, I'm sorry. There is a lot of strain in the situation and I get passionate sometimes.
Ginny : [crying and sniffling] That's OK. I know you're just trying to be fair to everybody.
[Ginny walks away]
Claudia Zimmer : [to Nick] You're the one I wanted to make cry.
[Nick goes after Ginny]
Danny : [to Claudia] Well, you had to open up your mouth again.
Claudia Zimmer : Danny, it's over and done with, please.
Danny : Let's have a nice quiet time... a nice vacation.
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Jack : Why do you think we love this boat so much?
Kate Burroughs : I don't know.
Jack : You know why I think we like this boat so much?
Kate Burroughs : I knew it! I knew it. He only asked us so that he could tell us his theory. Go ahead. Go ahead, sweetheart. Tell us. Why do we love this boat so much?
Jack : Because it represents our primeval desire to control water.
Kate Burroughs : See.
Jack : Now, think about it. All our beginnings are wet. Sloshing around in the womb. Baptism. The first life that came out of the warm soup of the ocean. From the moment we rose from the slime as alligators, we've been trying for dominion over water. You know?
Kate Burroughs : Jack loves ideas. And he can do so much with them. I have seen him take one idea at a dinner party and bring the conversation of a dozen people to a complete halt.
Nick : Ladies and gentlemen, Clams Casino.
Claudia Zimmer : Oh, my God, I love them! I have this insatiable need to have dominance over the clams.
Jack : It so happens that Venus rose from the sea on a clam shell. Sexuality was born in wetness.
Danny : It's easier that way!
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Nick : She might fall down! I can't let Ginny just wander around in the snow like that.
Jack : Why not?
Nick : Because she's pregnant.
Jack : Pregnant? You're 43 years old! You're gonna start having babies now?
Nick : Oh, there's some real heartwarming acceptance. I have to check everything with you? As a matter of fact, I told you I wanted to start a new family.
Jack : With babies?
Nick : What, with Airedales?
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Nick : I'm not just gonna eat it, I'm gonna make love to it.
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Nick : I want a woman I can be excited by.
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Nick : Will you guys shut up? You're depressing the birds.
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Nick : Hey, hey. Listen to the water lapping against the sides of the boat. To be with friends sipping wine, this is what it is to be happy.
Kate Burroughs : This - and being incredibly rich.
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Nick : You'll notice, these are pictures of people. Not kumquats.
