Storytelling (2001)
John Goodman: Marty Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction")
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[Marty and Mikey sit by the comatose Brady, who lies in his own bed]
Mikey Livingston : Dad? Do you think that Brady will ever get better?
Marty Livingston : One in a million recover.
Mikey Livingston : Maybe he's that one in a million.
Marty Livingston : Mikey, there's optimism, and then there's stupidity. It's a very fine line.
Mikey Livingston : [pause] I don't think there's any hope, either. I was just trying to make you feel better.
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Mikey Livingston : Mom, it's not fair if Brady can say the F-word and I can't.
Marty Livingston : Well Mikey, listen up 'cause here's a lesson: Life's...not...fair!
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Marty Livingston : I had a terrific time in college. I don't see why this is so hard for you to grasp? Why are you out to make college out to be a bad thing? A negative experience? YOU had a bad time? Well, too bad. Get over it. Stop trying to impose YOUR misery on everybody else. "Oh, life is bad. Life is horrible." Life is tough on you, well, boo-hoo.
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Brady Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : [asking about Holocaust survivors] You know any survivors, Dad?
Marty Livingston : Hmm. Do I know any? Personally?
Fern Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : Well, technically, your Zeda is a survivor.
Brady Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : He was in a concentration camp?
Fern Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : No, but he had to escape the Nazis.
Brady Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : But I thought he came over to America before the war.
Fern Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : Well, he did, with his family. But his cousins, they had to stay and they were all killed. And if he'd stayed, he would've been killed. So in my book, he's a survivor.
Brady Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : Even though it was only his cousins that were killed?
Fern Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : But that could've happened to him, or... or to me, if I'd been alive. Or you.
Mikey Livingston : Or me?
Scooby Livingston : You mean, then we're all survivors?
Fern Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : Well, yes. If it hadn't been for Hitler, he wouldn't have had to leave Europe. We would've been European.
Scooby Livingston : But then, in a sense, since you would've never have met Dad if your family had stayed in Europe, if it weren't for Hitler none of us would've been born.
Marty Livingston : Get the hell out of here.