The Newsroom (TV Series)

What Kind of Day Has It Been (2014)

Jeff Daniels: Will McAvoy

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• Will McAvoy : Charlie Skinner was crazy. He identified with Don Quixote - an old man with dementia who thought he could save the world from an epidemic of incivility simply by acting like a knight. His religion was decency. He spent a lifetime fighting it's enemies. I wish he could be here to learn the name of his successor like I just did - our new boss, the new president of ACN is MacKenzie McHale. So this fight is just getting started because he taught the rest of us to be crazy too... You were a man, Charlie... A great big man.

• Will McAvoy : [Motioning to a guitar]  You mind?

  Bo : No. That's right. You play guitar on the side.

  Will McAvoy : I'm a news anchor on the side.

• [last lines] 

  Will McAvoy : Good evening.

• Charlie Skinner : Have you ever thought about having kids?

  Will McAvoy : You mean adopting?

  Charlie Skinner : Adopting. Abducting. Meeting somebody. Getting married. Whatever it takes.

• Will McAvoy : Do we know if it's a boy or a girl?

  MacKenzie McHale : Yeah, there's a good chance it's going to be one of those two.

• Will McAvoy : [to a bartender]  I thought I saw someone I knew in the audience. And she was prompting me. I was asked a question from the audience, and she wrote an answer down on a pad and pointed to it the way a producer would. But, it was a hallucination. Which I didn't think those really happened, but they do. Never doubt them again.

  [the bartender simply nods as if in understanding, but is otherwise silent] 

  Will McAvoy : You're not as helpful as your movie counterparts.

• Charlie Skinner : [after Will correctly stated the name of a song that was playing]  You *do* play a little guitar on the side.

  Will McAvoy : I do a little news anchoring on the side.

• Will McAvoy : Okay, please help me. I need to fully understand what's happening here.

  MacKenzie McHale : I'm seven weeks pregnant, and there's like a 5 in 9 chance that it's yours.

• Will McAvoy : There's a hole in the side of your boat, he says. That hole is never going to be fixed, it's never going away, and you can't get a new boat. What you have to do is bail water out faster than it's coming in.

• Will McAvoy : Are you feeling alright? Should you be standing up? Is it alright for you to be outdoors?

• Will McAvoy : I think maybe we should just put you in a hospital bed right now and hook you up to an epidural. Would that be premature?

  MacKenzie McHale : Yes.

  Will McAvoy : Okay.

• MacKenzie McHale : Will. By any chance, did you tell anyone about the pregnancy?

  Will McAvoy : No. Absolutely not. You're not supposed to do that until after the first semester.

  MacKenzie McHale : Trimester.

  Will McAvoy : Tess, Kendra, Tamara and Martin tricked me into telling them.

  Gary Cooper : Congratulations to you guys. That's going to be one good looking kid.

  Will McAvoy : And then they might have told some people.

• Leona Lansing : You've made a career out of being likable.

  Will McAvoy : I'd like to make a career out of doing the news.