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There is one point where John Cusack was talking about regret, and how it is pointless. Does anyone remember the exact quote?

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This is probably WAY more than you want to know. But I love that scene and I think the thing that makes the impact is what he says before that. So I will give you the whole conversation and take from it what you wish.

Pete: Are you saying you have no regrets?

Charlie: Don’t believe in ‘em.

Pete: Bulls*it, everybody has regrets. Guys our age, what else is there?

Charlie: Did I ever tell you that my father was a twin?

Pete: Identical?

Charlie: Fraternal. Looked a lot alike, though, him and my uncle. Different temperaments completely. Father was a cop. By the book guy. Believed in the law, wanted his only son to be a lawyer. Drank in moderation, didn’t smoke. Kept up his life insurance premiums. Voted in every election, not just for president.

Pete: Let me guess, uncle didn’t vote.

Charlie: He said he didn’t want to encourage the bastards. In and out of jail since the time he was sixteen. Drunk all the time. Fu*ked everything that walked. Won a fortune playing poker, lost it all the same way. Lost an eye in a fight, half his liver.

Pete: So what you are trying to say is: you take after your uncle.

Charlie: I wasn’t finished. My father was 54 when he died of a massive embolism right her in Wichita. My uncle, died the very next day in a car wreck in California. So the point is: It is futile to regret. You do one thing, you do another, but so what? What’s the difference, same result.

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Great answer, and a very good scene. But part of the magic of this movie is how do you exit a scene like that? Simple.

Pete: How many of these green lights you gonna sit through?

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