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Michael Douglas in The Game (1997)

Michael Douglas: Nicholas Van Orton

The Game

Michael Douglas credited as playing...

Nicholas Van Orton

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Quotes21

  • [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: [leveling gun at carjacker] I am extremely fragile right now.
  • 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: I don't care about the money. I'm pulling back the curtain. I want to meet the wizard.
  • 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.
  • 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: [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: You don't know anything about society, Marie; you don't have the satisfaction of avoiding it.
  • 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: 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...
  • Christine: You got a shower in your office?
  • Nicholas: Yeah.
  • Christine: You an athlete or something?
  • Nicholas: No, I'm an investment banker.
  • Nicholas: Seymour Butts. Never get tired of that one.
  • 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.
  • Nicholas: I'm being toyed with by a bunch of depraved children
  • 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.
  • Nicholas: Did I have a choice? Did I have a choice?
  • Elizabeth: Have you had a nice birthday?
  • Nicholas Van Orton: Does Rose Kennedy have a black dress?
  • Nicholas: You can't smoke here.
  • Conrad: I'm with you.
  • Nicholas: It's illegal to smoke in restaurants in California.
  • Conrad: Fuck California!

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