Family Ties (TV Series)

A, My Name Is Alex (1987)

Michael J. Fox: Alex P. Keaton

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• Alex P. Keaton : There are winners, and there are losers in life - and there's no getting around that.

  Psychiatrist : So... you think your father's a weak man, then?

  Alex P. Keaton : ...No.

  Psychiatrist : But you just said...

  Alex P. Keaton : Just let me finish.

  Psychiatrist : Sorry.

  Alex P. Keaton : ...I used to think that way; I'm embarrassed by it now... that I could be so blind to his strength. He has great love, my father - not just for his family, but for life. He doesn't have to make you wrong for him to be right; he doesn't have to make you a loser to be a winner himself... I wish I was more like my father.

• Psychiatrist : How do you know about Grant College?

  Alex P. Keaton : My sister Mallory goes there.

  Alex P. Keaton : [scoffs]  Grant College - the school that offers a course in the opening of an umbrella.

  Psychiatrist : I got an "A" in that course.

• Alex P. Keaton : I was supposed to be in that car with him, Mal.

  Mallory Keaton : Yeah, but you weren't.

  Alex P. Keaton : No, I wasn't - I wasn't, and you know why? Because I was lazy, and because I was small; because I couldn't be bothered. My life was saved out of smallness, out of lack of generosity to a friend. I just don't get it, Mal - why am I still alive?

  Mallory Keaton : Because you still love to envy me?

  Alex P. Keaton : No, that's no answer.

  Mallory Keaton : I'm just joking, Alex.

  Alex P. Keaton : No! I should be with Greg! I should've been sitting right next to him, and I want answers because I can't keep going on like this.

  Alex P. Keaton : [breaks down]  Why am I alive? Why am I alive? Why am I alive?