Nicholas Quotes in Miami Vice (2006)

Nicholas: They are vertically intergrated, they're...

Det. Ricardo Tubbs: You mean they walk around with constant erections?

Nicholas: No, they farm, process, produce, export...

Det. Ricardo Tubbs: I know what it means.

Nicholas: Why is this happening to me?

Trudy Joplin: Because you lead a life of crime.

Det. Gina Calabrese: Can't do the time, don't mess with crime.

Nicholas: You don't go to school here do you?

Molly: Course I do. Why would you think that I don't? I'm in my late teens, I'm walking on campus, I got a pretentious name and a sparkly cellphone.

Nicholas: This guy's lying - he's a train robber!

Caulfield: What would I want with a train?

Jason: Nicholas! We care about you! We used to be like you. We thought nobody cared.

Kim: But we were wrong. Now we want to be your friends, Nicholas, and make sure you're never alone again. Believe us, Nicholas! Believe us.

Nicholas: I... I believe you!

The Spirit: No! You can't! Don't do it! Stop! You don't care! They don't care!

Tender Heart Bear: Nicholas, what have you done?

Nicholas: Only what they did to me. They deserved it.

Tender Heart Bear: No, Nicholas. Please, listen!

The Spirit: Quick, Nicholas!

Nicholas: "Nyx... byx... styx!"

The Spirit: This is only the beginning.

Tender Heart Bear: This is a job for all the Care Bears!

Nicholas: There. The spell is cast. Now, everyone in town will know the loneliness they've made me feel.

The Spirit: Not quite. Look. These two children still care very much about everyone... except you.

Nicholas: But they were to fall under my spell.

The Spirit: Ah, but those soft little bears shield them from your spell with their... love and caring.

Nicholas: Ah, let them go. I'm even now.

The Spirit: Are you? What about all the others?

Nicholas: Others?

The Spirit: All the others that you have not yet cast your spells on. All the others that still care.

Nicholas: I've gotten even with the whole town. That's all I wanted.

The Spirit: The others will come after you for what you've done.

Nicholas: What should I do?

The Spirit: You must finish it! Go ahead! Say it!

Nicholas: Neebo, weebo, tick tock, reebo, zeebo, zip zap, zock! AAH!

[releases a cloud with evil eyes into the room]

The Spirit: This spell will seek out the children and bring them to us at any cost!

Nicholas: Isn't there another way?

The Spirit: No! They must be taught a lesson! A lesson for the children! A lesson for the town! A lesson for everyone!

Nicholas: What do you mean everyone?

The Spirit: Now, go!

[the cloud leaves]

Nicholas: You said a lesson. What kind of lesson?

The Spirit: Never mind that. You must now collect the ingredients for your next spell.

Nicholas: I didn't mean it.

Mr. Fetucini: Ugh! You never mean it, Nicholas! I bought that box full of junk I could use for my magic act, and now half of it's broken! What am I going to do with you? Every time I give you a simple task to do, it's BOOM this and CRASH that!

Nicholas: I'm sorry, Mr. Fetucini.

Mr. Fetucini: Enough of your sorries. Check that trunk and see if there's anything left I can use in my magic act. I have a show to put on. Perhaps, one day, I will teach you how to make an audience love you, but right now, you're next to hopeless.

Nicholas: It's not going to work! Even the spell won't defeat them!

The Spirit: The spell was just having a little sport. The children are it's true target. Perhaps a sprinkle of toadstool mold will speed things up.

The Spirit: They're on their way!

Nicholas: [wakes up with a start] Ah! Here?

The Spirit: You'll be ready for them.

Nicholas: How?

The Spirit: By completing your final spell.

Nicholas: Final spell?

The Spirit: You must gather the elements quickly. When those two children arrive, they must be all that is left of caring in this world.

Nicholas: You don't mean...?

The Spirit: Yes! Everyone must be taught the lesson!

Nicholas: But...

The Spirit: Don't you see, Nicholas? It's too late to stop now! You must finish what you started! There's no turning back! Ha HA!

[the spirit and Nicholas laugh maniacally]

Mr. Fetucini: Nicholas, I just had the most wonderful dream! I dreamed I changed my poster! So that's just what I'm going to do! Now, it'll read "Fetucini and Nicholas"! So, what do you say? A partnership.

Nicholas: Par... par... par...

Mr. Fetucini: Oh, all right. "Nicholas and Fetucini".

Nicholas: Oh, thank you so much! You won't be dissappointed, I promise! I can't believe this! I owe it all to the Care Bears, and...

Mr. Fetucini: To who?

Nicholas: Yeah, uh... er, um... friends. My best friends, Mr. Fetucini.

Mr. Fetucini: [laughs] Friends. That's what it's all about, Nicholas, my boy. That's what it's all about.

Nicholas: Who are you? How do you know my name?

The Spirit: I am a spirit, Nicholas. Your friend. I know many things... almost everything.

Nicholas: Everything?

The Spirit: I know how you can earn more friends.

Nicholas: Really? How?

The Spirit: With magic.

Nicholas: Magic?

[turns to Mr. Fettuccini]

The Spirit: Oh, not his magic tricks. I mean real magic. Magic that can make your fondest wish come true.

Nicholas: You mean you can use magic to get people to like me?

The Spirit: No, but you could. All you have to do is undo the lock.

The Spirit: Well done, Nicholas. He'll be in a deep sleep only long enough for you to take over his magic show.

Nicholas: But I... I couldn't!

The Spirit: Yes, you can. You must! This is your chance to show that you are a greater magician than he. They love him for his magic, they'll love you for your's. I'll help you.

Tender Heart Bear: Nicholas! Stop! This isn't the way to make friends!

Nicholas: Who are you?

Tender Heart Bear: I'm Tender Heart. A Care Bear. Your friend.

The Spirit: Friend? Where was he when you needed him?

Tender Heart Bear: What matters is I'm here now, and Nicholas needs me the most.

[the Spirit angrily growls and blows Tender Heart away]

The Spirit: See, Nicholas? Magic can do anything you want it to.

Nicholas: Hey, neat!

Tender Heart Bear: Magic isn't the answer, Nicholas. Your feelings can help you find the true answer.

The Spirit: Don't listen to him! There are dozens of children out there waiting to see your magic.

Nicholas: They'll love me just like they did the Great Fetuccini! I know all his tricks. I'm not doing anything wrong.

Tender Heart Bear: He won't succeed! The spirit doesn't care about him, but I do!

[as the audience laughs at Nicholas]

Nicholas: Make them stop laughing! Make them stop!

The Spirit: Only you can do that. Here - teach them a lesson.

Nicholas: A lesson?

Kid in audience: Come on! Make us laugh!

The Spirit: One they'll never forget!

Nicholas: [reads] Simmer-sot, Ra dee tar...

Tender Heart Bear: Nicholas, no!

Nicholas: ...Tazork nee!

[There is a thunderclap. The kids in the audience instantly start brawling]

The Spirit: Now they know how you've felt all your life, without a friend in the world. Now, they feel nothing!

Nicholas: [steps in something] Huh? Icky, sticky bubblegum! The last ingredient I need for my final spell!

[cackles]

Nicholas: Let them try and stop me now!

Nicholas: Where are they? Where are you hiding the boy and girl?

Tender Heart Bear: You don't know what you're doing, Nicholas! Listen to your heart, and you'll find the truth!

Nicholas: WHERE ARE THEY?

Tender Heart Bear: Care Bears, STARE!

Tony Perkis: You've been a good guard, Nicholas. Fair and strong. I want to reward you with this chocolate kiss.

[holds out the fake candy to Nicholas]

Nicholas: Throw it over!

Tony Perkis: Then it would smoosh... we wouldn't want that.

Tony Perkis: [Nicholas goes to grab the candy and Tony puts him in a headlock] Looks like London Bridge is falling down!

Nicholas: [Passes Gas directly into Gerry's Face] Oh, my. I didn't mean to.

Gerry: Just go!

Tony Perkis: Kids, at age 12, I weighed 319 pounds. I had bad skin, low self-esteem, and no self-respect. Now, I eat success for breakfast, with skim milk.

Nicholas: [gets a sour look on his face] Ugh.

Nicholas: [beating Camp MVP in naming 5 American Vice Presidents] You Americans have NO sense of history.

Nicholas: [after being punished for scratching one of Teresa's records] That Froggy bitch pulled my ear off!

Philip Fairweather: Here, here, here! Who taught you to speak like that?

Nicholas: Mum did!

Philip Fairweather: [slaps the back of Nicholas's hand] That'll teach you to tell lies.

Liz: Guys, get off the dog!

Nicholas: We're just playing.

Liz: That dog is like 200 years old in human- would you do that to Grandma?

[on the beach, Nicholas gets chatting to Lily, Robin reacts with jealousy]

Robin: Come along, Nicholas, you promised to help me do my hair.

Nicholas: Oh, push off!

Andrew Quint: No more extraneous...

[pauses to eye a passing girl]

Andrew Quint: attractions.

Nicholas: As the pin said to the magnet.

[first lines]

Nicholas: Seek those things that are above, not those things that are upon the earth.

Lord De Guise: Do you really believe that your God has the power to protect you?

Nicholas: No. Nor the inclination.

Lord De Guise: Ah. Then what kind of God is that?

Nicholas: The kind who allows innocent children to be murdered.

Nicholas: [explaining why he's on the lam] I lay with a woman of my parish, another man's wife.

Sarah: [about priesthood] I thought that came with the job.

[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: 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.

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

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

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

Jim Feingold: Oh. It's a game.

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

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: You can't smoke here.

Conrad: I'm with you.

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

Conrad: Fuck California!

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

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.

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

[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.

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

Christine: You got a shower in your office?

Nicholas: Yeah.

Christine: You an athlete or something?

Nicholas: No, I'm an investment banker.

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

Christine: ...Never mind.

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

John Browdie: Wait. I say Wait. I've come from the schoolhouse. Mr Squeers says he was attacked. Beaten, and nearly sensless. When he said it was thee who did it, I knew thee must nor be allowed to leave...

Nicholas: We will not be stopped.

John Browdie: ...without my shaking your hand and saying to thee, "Job well done". Give us thee hand, will you?

Nicholas: Weakness is tiring, but strength is exhausting.

[At the assembly to see Smike flogged for running away]

Mr. Squeers: Is every boy here? Get back! You too Nickleby!

[to Smike]

Mr. Squeers: And you. Have you anything to say?

Smike: [Crying] Please, sir, spare me.

Mr. Squeers: I'll spare you. I'll flog you to within an inch of your life, and I'll spare you then.

[Squeers strikes him once, Smike cries out in pain]

Nicholas: Stop! This must not go on. I will not allow it.

Mr. Squeers: You dare to challenge my authority! Stay back!

Nicholas: Touch him at your peril! I will not stand by and see it done.

Mr. Squeers: You will do as you're told!

Nicholas: If you raise the devil within me, the consequences shall fall on your own head! Once I begin, God help you!

[Nicholas grabs the stick and starts hitting Squeers with it]

Mr. Squeers: Stop! No, please, wait!

Nicholas: I do not know why, but I am going to show you what you have never shown any boy in this room... Pity.

[Nicholas cuts down Smike and helps him out]

Smike: Though I would have died to make her happy it broke my heart to see. I know he loves her dearly.

Nicholas: Kate.

Smike: I love her.

Nicholas: [to Ralph Nickleby] Your curse has no power over me. The structures you raised all through your misspent life are crumbling into dust. This day, this very day, 10000 pounds of your hoarded wealth are gone in one great crash. Your day is done. Night is coming fast for you.

Mrs. Nickleby: We feel he died of a broken heart.

Ralph Nickleby: Pooh, there's no such thing.

Nicholas: [resentfully] Indeed, if you have no heart to break.

Smike: Tomorrow where will you go?

Nicholas: Perhaps to Liverpool. I could find work on a ship. Do not be anxious. Before I do anything I will get you to your home. Where is it?

Smike: You are my home.

Nicholas: [affectionately] Smike.

Smike: Please may I go with you to sea? I will be your faithful, hardworking servant, I will. Promise I will. I want only to be near you.

Nicholas: Smike, the wall that separates us shall never be set by me. And I promise you, from this night forward, the world shall deal by you as it does by me.

Nicholas: [Smike has consumption] Father, I know I am stronger than when you left, but not strong enough to lose Smike. If this is what that strength is for, then I do not want it.

[cries]

Nicholas: Not Smike.

Nicholas: [on the Squeers treating Smike badly because he is friends with Nicholas] You will do better when I am gone.

Smike: [alarmed] Gone? When are you going?

Nicholas: I would go tomorrow if I could.

Smike: Tell me, is the world as bad as this place?

Nicholas: [smiles] Oh no.

Smike: Should I ever meet you there?

Nicholas: Well, yes I'm sure at...

Smike: No, no tell me. Tell me that I should be sure to find you.

Nicholas: [affirmatively] You would and I would help you and aid you. I would not bring fresh sorrow on you as they have done here.

Nicholas: That's John Browdie.

Newman Noggs: Is he good or bad.

Nicholas: He gave me money when he heard I'd beaten Squeers.

Newman Noggs: Oh, than he's good.

Mr. Crummles: But there is tragedy in the family.

Nicholas: The pony's family?

Mr. Crummles: Yes... the father drank. Ended up in the circus, drinking port wine with the clowns. Got greedy, couldn't quit and choked on the bottle.

[Gasps]

Mr. Crummles: At any rate, I'd Iove to bring you and your friend out.

Nicholas: Does your friend think I'm in love with her?

Tilda: Does she think so? Of course.

Nicholas: But I have made no such declaration.

Tilda: Your eyes said what your mouth could not.

Nicholas: Perhaps my mouth should say what my eyes have not. I have scarcely seen the lady three times but should I have seen her 30 or 30,000, it would be the same. I have not one thought, hope or wish connected with her unless it is part of the picture I keep in my mind of one day being able to turn my back upon this accursed place and never to think of it again with any feeling but loathing and disgust.

Nicholas: See I cannot save you. For I need saving too.

Mr. Crummles: And this is the infant phenomenon. She is but 10 years old.

Nicholas: [the Infant Phenomenon is clearly older] Not... older?

Mr. Crummles: [Raises eyebrow] Not a day.

Nicholas: My father told me that the great journey of my life would be to find such a person. But, I am nearly 20 years of age and I fear he may be wrong.

Mrs. Nickleby: [Nicholas' father, Ralph's brother, died] Mine was no common loss.

Ralph Nickleby: I was no uncommon loss. Husbands die every day. And wives.

Nicholas: Brothers also.

Ralph Nickleby: Yes, and puppies, too.

John Browdie: [of the kidnapped Smike] He's in the schoolmaster's room, next to Tilda's and my room.

Nicholas: What is the way in?

John Browdie: You must go through the inn, but the schoolmaster is sitting in the front room just by the stairs.

Newman Noggs: Oh dear. It's impossible.

John Browdie: I could distract the schoolmaster, you could slip past and go to my room, there is a door adjoining the schoolmaster's, go through it, get the lad. I'll watch the stairs and again try to disrtact him when you come out.

Newman Noggs: If I could offer an opinion in regards to this scheme? It seems, uh, foolhardy, riddled with danger, and doomed to failure. Otherwise I can find no fault with it. It is for Smike.

Nicholas: [to Sir Mulberry Hawk] I am your equal in education and birth and, I trust, your superior in everything otherwise!

Nicholas: [on why he must leave the theatre troupe] Tis a family drama.

Mrs. Crummles: Those are always popular.

Anne: Nicholas don't speak to them.

Nicholas: Why?

Anne: They're dead.

Nicholas: WHAT?

Anne: They're ghosts. Come over here.

Nicholas: But you said "Ghosts wear sheets and carry chains".

Anne: I don't care what I said. Get away from them.

Nicholas: You're always teasing me, and telling lies. I'm sick of it.

Anne: Nicholas I'm telling the truth. COME HERE!

Anne: I don't believe that the Holy Spirit is a dove.

Nicholas: I don't believe that either.

Anne: Doves are anything but holy.

Nicholas: They poo on the window.

Anne: WE'RE NOT DEAD!

Nicholas: We're not dead!

Charles: [enters Anne and Nicholas' bedroom]

[quietly]

Charles: How are my little ones?

Anne: [excited] Daddy!

[she hugs Charles]

Anne: Why did you take so long?

Charles: [smiles when he sees Nicholas] Hello Nicholas.

[Nicholas hugs him]

Anne: [to Nicholas] I told you, you see! I told you he'd come back!

Charles: [as he hugs the children] Have you both been well-behaved?

Anne: We've been very good.

Charles: Have you been good to your Mother?

Nicholas: Very good. We study every day for our First Communion.

Anne: [pauses] Daddy, did you kill anyone?

[Walking in the forest]

Nicholas: I'm scared.

Anne: Well, you shouldn't have come then.

Nicholas: Say something.

Anne: What shall I say?

Nicholas: Anything.

Anne: My name is Anne, and I'm walking. I'm walking and my name is Anne...

[repeated line]

Nicholas: Mummy!