William Hurt credited as playing...
Tom Grunick
- Tom Grunick: What do you do when your real life exceeds your dreams?
- Aaron Altman: Keep it to yourself.
- Jane Craig: So you like me, huh?
- Tom Grunick: I like you as much as I can like anyone who thinks I'm an asshole.
- [On Aaron's sweating incident on the air]
- Jane Craig: [on phone] It wasn't UNPRECEDENTED, was it?
- Tom Grunick: [on phone] Not unless you count "Singin' In the Rain".
- Tom Grunick: You're an *amazing* woman - what a *feeling* having you inside my head!
- Jane Craig: [smiling] Yeah - it was - an unusual place to be.
- Tom Grunick: It's like - indescribable - you knew *just* when to feed me the next line, you knew the m... second before I needed it. There was like, a *rhythm* we got into - it was like - *great sex*!
- [he pulls her toward him while she laughs]
- Aaron Altman: Can you name all the members of the cabinet?
- Tom Grunick: OK, let's drop it.
- Aaron Altman: What?
- Tom Grunick: I mean, I am not gonna take a test for you. I mean, if that came up in conversation...
- Aaron Altman: We're conversing. 'Oh no, the names of the cabinet have slipped my mind. Say, do you know them?' OK, don't name them for me. Just tell me if you know.
- Tom Grunick: Yes, Aaron, I know the names of the cabinet.
- Aaron Altman: OK. All 12?
- Tom Grunick: Yes!
- Aaron Altman: There's only 10.
- Tom Grunick: You're feeling good, aren't you?
- Aaron Altman: I'm starting to, yeah. Hey, we may do capitals of the states next.
- Tom Grunick: 50, right?
- Tom Grunick: I would really - a lot - appreciate it if...
- Jane Craig: "Really - a lot - appreciate it"?
- Tom Grunick: I'm going to miss you. You're a prick in a - great way. You know what I mean.
- Aaron Altman: No, I liked how that made me *sound*.
- Jane Craig: So, you're not well educated, you have almost no experience... and you can't write.
- Tom Grunick: Yeah, and I'm... and I'm making a fortune.
- Tom Grunick: Why can't I let go of this woman?
- Jane Craig: Well.
- [Tom caresses the top of Jane's strapless dress, Jane giggles]
- Jane Craig: At least kiss me when you do that.
- Tom Grunick: You just can't stop editing me, huh?
- Jane Craig: This is hysterical.
- Tom Grunick: It's nice to see you.
- Aaron Altman: Hey, congratulations on history's longest winning streak.
- Aaron Altman: The pointers were great, I'll study the tape.
- Tom Grunick: Just remember that you're not just reading the news, you're narrating it. Everybody has to sell a little. You're selling them this idea of you, you know, you're sort of saying, trust me I'm, um, credible. So when you feel yourself just reading, stop! Start selling a little.
- Tom Granick: You keep on thinking I'm somebody who lacks confidence. That's not it. I know I can talk well enough and I'm not bad at making contact with people, but I don't like the feeling that I'm pretending to be a reporter. And half the time I don't get the news that I'm talking about. It's not that I'm down on myself. Trust me. I stink.
- Tom Grunick: It's the first time I've seen you dressed like this. You look so clean and pretty.
- Jane Craig: What do you mean? Clean?
- Tom Grunick: Well, at the office you always have this sort of film over you.
- Tom Grunick: [drives to Jane's apartment] Is this it?
- Jane Craig: Yes. I am so exhausted. Punchy. Sick, tired. I can't think and I can't move. I'm just a dead lump - of poured out *flesh*. Would you like to come up?
- Tom Grunick: I have an idea for something?
- Jane Craig: What?
- Tom Grunick: If I tell you, can you manage not to put it down or - or - or tell me why it won't work or is in bad journalistic taste or anything like that?
- Jane Craig: Yes, Tom. I think I can *manage*.
- Tom Grunick: Okay, It's about women who are attacked by someone they know on a date.
- Jane Craig: Ugh!
- Aaron Altman: What are you doing? Don't touch me.
- Tom Grunick: [adjusting Aaron's suit jacket] Sit on it.
- Aaron Altman: No, but, just don't handle me.
- Tom Grunick: Sit on it.
- Aaron Altman: I'm sitting on it!
- Tom Grunick: More and more lately when I've been watching you in action - seeing you in all your energy - I've been wondering what it would be like to be inside all that energy.
- Jane Craig: Me too.