Mikey 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!

Mikey Livingston: Speak English.

Mikey Livingston: And you'll fire Consuelo. She's lazy.

Mikey Livingston: Wasn't there high school in El Salvador?

Consuelo: We had to work. My family was poor.

Mikey Livingston: It must have been hard being poor.

Consuelo: I am still poor.

Mikey Livingston: But Consuelo... even though you're poor, don't you have any hobbies or interests or anything?

Consuelo: No, Mikey.

[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.

Mikey Livingston: Why was he on death row?

Consuelo: For rape and murder.

Mikey Livingston: Consuelo, what is rape exactly?

Consuelo: It is when you love someone and they don't love you and you do something about it.

Mikey Livingston: Sometimes I think my parents don't love me.

Consuelo: Well, when you get older you can do something about it.