The Game (1997)

Michael Douglas: Nicholas Van Orton

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• [Nicholas van Orten loses a shoe when climbing a fire-escape ladder] 

  Nicholas : There goes a thousand dollars.

  Christine : Your shoes cost a thousand dollars?

  Nicholas : That one did.

• Nicholas : [leveling gun at carjacker]  I am extremely fragile right now.

• Nicholas : So, you've played recently?

  New Member Ted : Oh, about a year ago. I was working in Los Angeles.

  Nicholas : I hear the London office is very good, too. It just sounds like a lot of fantasy, role-playing nonsense.

  New Member Ted : [leans in]  You wanna know what it is? What it's all about?

  [Nicholas leans closer] 

  New Member Ted : John 9:25.

  Nicholas : I... haven't been to Sunday school in a long time.

  New Member Ted : 'Whereas once I was blind, now I can see.'

  [rises] 

  New Member Ted : Good night, Nicholas. Best of luck.

  Nicholas : Good night.

• Conrad : I just found myself laying naked on a beach near Ibiza and all of a sudden it clicked: October 12th, Nicky's birthday.

  Nicholas : October 11th.

  Conrad : Whatever.

• Nicholas : I don't care about the money. I'm pulling back the curtain. I want to meet the wizard.

• Conrad : This is for you.

  Nicholas : You shouldn't have.

  Conrad : What do you get for the man who has... everything?

  Nicholas : [reading card]  "Consumer Recreation Services." Well, I do have golf clubs.

  Conrad : Call that number.

  Nicholas : Why?

  Conrad : Make your life... fun.

  Nicholas : Fun.

  Conrad : You know what that is... uh, you've seen other people have it.

• Nicholas : You don't know anything about society, Marie; you don't have the satisfaction of avoiding it.

• Nicholas : [In the stopped elevator]  I'll give you a boost.

  Christine : You first.

  Nicholas : This isn't an attempt to be gallant. If I don't lift you, how are you going to get there?

  Christine : You pull me up.

  Nicholas : It's much easier this way. Come on, step up...

  Christine : No.

  Nicholas : Please...

  Christine : I'm not wearing underwear. Okay? There, I said it. Satisfied?

  Nicholas : [Looks at her skirt]  Oh. Fine.

• Daniel Schorr : [on TV]  There's a tiny camera looking at you right now.

  Nicholas : That's impossible.

  Daniel Schorr : You're right, impossible. You're having a conversation with your television.

• Nicholas : And you really believe that just because you publish children's books, people are going to care about my reputation? You can have pictures of me wearing nipple rings, butt-fucking Captain Kangaroo. The only thing they care about is the stock and whether that stock is up or down!

• Nicholas : What's that?

  Conrad : [signs document]  This... is... the bill.

  Nicholas : Do you want to split it?

  Conrad : [exhales]  Oh God yes! I'll take some of that...

  [shows Nicholas enormous number at bottom of receipt] 

  Nicholas : [shocked look]  Oh my God...

• Nicholas : Seymour Butts. Never get tired of that one.

• Christine : You got a shower in your office?

  Nicholas : Yeah.

  Christine : You an athlete or something?

  Nicholas : No, I'm an investment banker.

• Nicholas : No, what is this? What are you... selling?

  Jim Feingold : Oh. It's a game.

• Nicholas : I'm being toyed with by a bunch of depraved children

• Nicholas : I got this key out of a mouth of this... wooden clown.

  Christine : ...Never mind.

• Nicholas : Did I have a choice? Did I have a choice?

• Nicholas : [when he and Christine wind up in composters]  Dinner for two, please.

• Nicholas : You can't smoke here.

  Conrad : I'm with you.

  Nicholas : It's illegal to smoke in restaurants in California.

  Conrad : Fuck California!

• Elizabeth : Have you had a nice birthday?

  Nicholas Van Orton : Does Rose Kennedy have a black dress?

• [In a fancy restaurant] 

  Conrad : I've been here before.

  Nicholas : I took you here for your birthday.

  Conrad : No, I used to buy crystal meth from the Maitre D.