Starting Over (1979)
Charles Durning: Michael (Mickey) Potter
Quotes
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Michael Potter : [to crowd observing Phil's anxiety attack] Anybody have a Valium?
[everyone in crowd reaches into purses and pockets]
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Michael Potter : I'm gonna help you whether you like it or not. I'm not talking about psychiatry.
Phil Potter : Psychiatry is not gonna do a thing for me, Mickey.
Michael Potter : Who's talking psychiatry? I'm not a psychiatrist anymore, Phil. I've gone through some changes myself.
Phil Potter : What are you doin' now?
Michael Potter : I'm teaching psychiatry.
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Michael Potter : Phil is the pervert.
Marva Potter : No. Isn't that marvelous?
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John Morganson : [Marilyn bursts out laughing meeting 6'8'' John] What is it?
Marilyn Holmberg : No, no, no, it's nothing. I'm sorry.
Marva Potter : She's had a tough time recently.
Michael Potter : John - John's used to strange reactions. We went into it when he was my patient.
Marilyn Holmberg : No, it wasn't him.
Michael Potter : It has to do with a - a tension people feel over the disparity in height. And there's a - there's a sexual element.
[Marilyn laughing hysterically]
Michael Potter : There's - there's a sexual element. It has to...
Marilyn Holmberg : No, I'm sorry.
Michael Potter : You know, with everything else, uh, people feel: "Is everything on such a grand scale?"
Marva Potter : And is it?
John Morganson : Yes.