Mikey and Nicky (1976)

John Cassavetes: Nicky (Nick Godalin)

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• Mikey : [they have just climbed over the wall of a cemetery]  I'm exhausted really, Nick. This is foolish. Nick, please. It's just foolish.

  Nicky : Foolish?

  Mikey : Frankly, I think it's ridiculous.

  Nicky : You didn't like my mother?

  Mikey : I loved your mother. I thought she was a wonderful woman.

  Nicky : Why is it ridiculous to visit her grave?

  Mikey : Because it's one o'clock in the morning.

  Nicky : That makes it nicer.

  Mikey : It doesn't make it anything, Nick. A grave is a grave. There's not a religion in the world that says a person's soul is buried with them in their grave. It's not your mother in there.

  Nicky : You don't believe in any of that stuff?

  Mikey : No.

  Nicky : You don't believe there's anything after you die?

  Mikey : Er, me personally, no. I believe you die and that's it.

  Nicky : That doesn't scare you? To think that one day'll you die. You'll be over. You won't be anything, you won't know anything. Be nothing.

  Mikey : Look, Nick, if you wanna visit your mother, let's visit your mother because this conversation is stupid.

  Nicky : It isn't stupid. It's interesting - if you're gonna die.

  Mikey : Well, I'm not gonna die so I think it's stupid.

  Nicky : Yeah, well you are some day.

  Mikey : Look, Nick...

  Nicky : You're gonna die some day.

  Mikey : I'm not gonna stand here at one o'clock in the morning and discuss what's gonna happen to me when I die. I mean, that mishegoss I leave to the Catholics.

  [he walks off] 

  Nicky : Aren't you gonna die some day? Aren't you gonna die some day? Aren't you gonna die some day? I just wanna know, are you gonna die some day?

• Nicky : It's very hard to talk to a dead person. I have nothing in common.

• Nicky : They're out to get me.

  Jan : I'm not interested.

• Nicky : You don't know what I mean.

  Mikey : Oh, of course not, 'cause I'm stupid.