Marty Livingston Quotes in Storytelling (2001)

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!

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.

[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.