The Newsroom (TV Series)
The Greater Fool (2012)
Emily Mortimer: MacKenzie McHale
Quotes
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Will McAvoy : Sorority girl!
MacKenzie McHale : [to Jennifer] Don't be scared.
Will McAvoy : You're the girl, right?
Jennifer Johnson : I'm Jennifer Johnson.
Will McAvoy : Just graduated North Western?
Jennifer Johnson : A year early.
Will McAvoy : You asked me that moronic question... and then my world came apart, and she came here and I landed in the tabloids and then I got death threats and my job is constantly in jeopardy and you ruined my life!
MacKenzie McHale : [to Jennifer] Again just stay calm.
Jennifer Johnson : Yes, that was me.
Will McAvoy : What the hell are you doing here?
Jennifer Johnson : I'm applying for an internship.
Will McAvoy : Why?
Jennifer Johnson : I watch the show. And I read the New York magazine article, and I know what a "greater fool" is. And I want to be one.
Will McAvoy : [to MacKenzie, smiling] Camelot. She's the kid at the end of Camelot!
[Turns to Jennifer]
Will McAvoy : Ask me again.
Jennifer Johnson : I'm sorry?
Will McAvoy : Ask me your idiot question again.
Jennifer Johnson : What makes America the greatest country in the world?
Will McAvoy : You do.
[to MacKenzie]
Will McAvoy : Hire her.
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MacKenzie McHale : And then I came back and lit a fire under your ass...
Will McAvoy : You lit my ass on fire! It's not the same thing!
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Will McAvoy : I don't think I'm coming back.
[MacKenzie looks at him, stunned]
Will McAvoy : I don't think I am.
MacKenzie McHale : You're coming back if I have to chop you up, put you in a duffle bag, and reassemble you at the anchor desk.
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MacKenzie McHale : [while Will lies in a hospital bed, Jim reveals to them that Don is about to ask Maggie to move in with him. She scolds Jim for continuing to date Lisa rather than pursue a relationship with Maggie] You've got to do something before he asks her.
Jim Harper : No!
MacKenzie McHale : Why not?
Will McAvoy : It doesn't seem like a very nice thing to do to Don or Maggie or Lisa.
MacKenzie McHale : So you're willing to end up like the two of us? A strong, beautiful, vital woman and a hallowed-out shell of a man.
Will McAvoy : [to MacKenzie] You know I'm awake now?
MacKenzie McHale : [to Jim] That's a dead person speaking, basically. And now I'm gonna have to spend the next God knows how many hours in mourning.
Will McAvoy : Please go back to work.
MacKenzie McHale : He will.
Will McAvoy : [to MacKenzie] I'm talking to you.