The West Wing (TV Series)
Night Five (2002)
Adam Arkin: Dr. Stanley Keyworth
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Quotes
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President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : So, what do you charge?
Dr. Stanley Keyworth : $375 an hour.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : For $375 an hour, you ought to bring your own damn lingerie.
Dr. Stanley Keyworth : I do.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : There's a great story about Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman had just opened on Broadway the night before, and he was walking around his old neighborhood in Brooklyn, and he sees a hot dog vendor that he went to high school with, and he says, 'Hey Jimmy, it's me, Arthur Miller'. And the hot dog vendor says, 'Artie, how you doing? What you been up to?' And Miller says, 'I'm, you know, I'm a playwright'. The hot dog vendor says, 'Hmm, play writing... I should've gone into that'.
[chuckles]
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : $375 an hour.
Dr. Stanley Keyworth : Yes, sir.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : For what?
Dr. Stanley Keyworth : I don't really know.
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Dr. Stanley Keyworth : Screw around if you want, but it's your money, it's about to be my money, and I sleep fine.
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President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : I'm saying it's not stress. I was feeling stressed five nights ago too, and I slept just fine.
Dr. Stanley Keyworth : So what happened four nights ago?
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : I want my money back.
Dr. Stanley Keyworth : [pauses] This is a very unusual conversation.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : I get that a lot.
Dr. Stanley Keyworth : I'd imagine.
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Dr. Stanley Keyworth : It can't be easy being you
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : I told you...
Dr. Stanley Keyworth : I don't mean the job. I meant, you know, being inside your head.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : What's wrong with my head?
Dr. Stanley Keyworth : I don't know.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Of course not, that would be $385 an hour.
Dr. Stanley Keyworth : They keep moving the goalposts on you, don't they? Get A's, good college, Latin honours. Get into the London School of Economics. Get a good teaching job. Ivy League school, tenure. Now you gotta publish, now you gotta go to Stockholm.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : It's not good for a person to keep setting goals?
Dr. Stanley Keyworth : It probably is, but it's tricky for somebody who's still trying to get his father to stop hitting him.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Well, I'm told that most men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Dr. Stanley Keyworth : Yeah, but that's most men. That's not you. That's the other people, the ones who feel stress. You're destined for something else.
