Starting Over (1979)

Charles Durning: Michael (Mickey) Potter

Quotes 

• Michael Potter : [to crowd observing Phil's anxiety attack]  Anybody have a Valium?

  [everyone in crowd reaches into purses and pockets] 

• Michael Potter : I'm gonna help you whether you like it or not. I'm not talking about psychiatry.

  Phil Potter : Psychiatry is not gonna do a thing for me, Mickey.

  Michael Potter : Who's talking psychiatry? I'm not a psychiatrist anymore, Phil. I've gone through some changes myself.

  Phil Potter : What are you doin' now?

  Michael Potter : I'm teaching psychiatry.

• Michael Potter : Phil is the pervert.

  Marva Potter : No. Isn't that marvelous?

• John Morganson : [Marilyn bursts out laughing meeting 6'8'' John]  What is it?

  Marilyn Holmberg : No, no, no, it's nothing. I'm sorry.

  Marva Potter : She's had a tough time recently.

  Michael Potter : John - John's used to strange reactions. We went into it when he was my patient.

  Marilyn Holmberg : No, it wasn't him.

  Michael Potter : It has to do with a - a tension people feel over the disparity in height. And there's a - there's a sexual element.

  [Marilyn laughing hysterically] 

  Michael Potter : There's - there's a sexual element. It has to...

  Marilyn Holmberg : No, I'm sorry.

  Michael Potter : You know, with everything else, uh, people feel: "Is everything on such a grand scale?"

  Marva Potter : And is it?

  John Morganson : Yes.