The Newsroom (TV Series)

I'll Try to Fix You (2012)

Jeff Daniels: Will McAvoy

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Quotes 

• Will McAvoy : I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.

• Will McAvoy : Mac, get in here with Charlie right now.

  Mackenzie MacHale : Is everything...

  Will McAvoy : Right now!

  [points to Charlie as he enters the room] 

  Will McAvoy : You tell Leona that if she wants me out of this chair, she better bring more than just a couple of guys.

  Charlie Skinner : That's exactly what I'll fucking tell her!

  Will McAvoy : I'm not fucking around, Charlie!

  Charlie Skinner : Feet of fucking steel!

  Will McAvoy : Mac

  Mackenzie MacHale : I'm sorry.

  Will McAvoy : It's not your fault

  Mackenzie MacHale : I fucked everything up.

  Will McAvoy : It's gonna be all right.

  Don Keefer : [Entering the studio]  What the fuck is going on?

  Will McAvoy : You're a fucking newsman, Don! I ever tell you otherwise, you punch me in the face!

  Don Keefer : Okay, but you're back in 30.

• Wade Campbell : You know I'm an assistant US attorney for the southern district, right?

  Will McAvoy : Yeah

  Wade Campbell : Well, right now, my job is prosecuting financial crime.

  Will McAvoy : Well, you know, Wade, fell free to start any time.

• Charlie Skinner : Have you read The New York Post?

  Will McAvoy : No, my eyes are connected to my brain.

• [about Obama's visit to India and the absurdly exaggerated figure of the cost] 

  Will McAvoy : In spite of there being no source for this information, to say nothing of the absurdity of the figure, Fox News grabs the baton.

  Glenn Beck : So he's travelling with 34 warships, an entourage-

  [footage stops] 

  Will McAvoy : Oh yeah, and he added 34 warships. Or, 14% of the U.S. Navy.

• Will McAvoy : Was I called in on a Saturday for Bigfoot?

  Neal Sampat : I think you're gonna find this interesting.

  Will McAvoy : I think you don't know what that word means.

• Will McAvoy : Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, founder of the Tea Party Caucus, who herself has a difficult relationship with reality, ignores the statement from the White House.

• Carrie : [Will takes Carrie's gun away from her and points it at Carrie, who looks stunned]  Is it wrong that I'm turned on by that?

  Will McAvoy : Yes!

• Monica : Am I mean and insensitive?

  Will McAvoy : You, you are a smart, accomplished woman. You work for a U.S. senator.

  Monica : Am I mean and insensitive?

  Will McAvoy : Yes, but thank goodness you met me in time, because now-

  [Monica throws her drink in Will's face and storms off] 

  Will McAvoy : . I can't believe how often this is happening.

• Nina Howard : Are we gonna go back to flirting, or are you gonna keep putting me down?

  Will McAvoy : I'm not putting you down. I'm just saying that what you do is a really bad form of pollution that makes us dumber and meaner and is destroying civilization. I'm saying, with all possible respect, that I would have more respect for you if you were a heroin dealer. And I'm speaking professionally, not personally.

  Nina Howard : Ok, Will. I'm speaking personally when I say fuck you. And you just passed up a sure thing.

• Will McAvoy : How many women did you date before you finally found the one?

  Charlie Skinner : Doesn't matter how may I dated before. I didn't date anyone after.

  Will McAvoy : It probably helped that she didn't pull your heart out, throw it into an oven preheated to 450 degrees, bake it in a light honey glaze, and serve it to you on a bed of rice.