Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2001 TV Movie)

Nathan Lane: Max Prince

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Quotes 

• Max : If I die, bill the funeral to NBC. Fuck 'em!

• Max : I have to look good for a heart attack?

• [At his mother's grave] 

  Max : Ma, have you given any thought to moving next to Pop? I think he really misses you. You wouldn't have to talk to him. I think he just wants to lie next to you. It's cold over there. He doesn't have the sun like you. (Listens) Okay.

  Harry : What'd she say?

  Max : She wants to sleep on it.

• Max : All I'm saying is, sometimes you gotta take a stand against the bastards.

• Max : I just didn't want to say goodbye tonight...no goodbyes.

• [Ira has written "I Have A Brain Tumor" on the wall] 

  Max : Is that gonna wash off?

  Ira : Don't you care what might happen to me.

  Max : First let's discuss what happened to my wall. Is that gonna wash off?

  Ira : I don't think so. It's a permanent marker.

  Max : If that doesn't wash off, you will DEFINITELY have a brain tumor.

• Max : I want to hit something else. Something big, expensive.

  Milt : There's a bank across the street, Max.

• Max : The lines are too clogged with urbane-ament.

• Max : I don't know who I hate most: McCarthy or Lawrence Welk.

• [NBC plans on putting a "spy/observer" onto Max's show] 

  Max : If he's REALLY observant, he's gonna observe me getting upset! And then he's gonna observe me very quietly, and very politely, putting my fist through his fucking face!

  [Max then punches a hole in the wall]