Early Edition (1996–2000)

Fisher Stevens: Chuck Fishman

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Quotes 

• Chuck : Some dances you sit out. Others, you change partners. The important thing is, you never stop dancing.

• Chuck Fishman : [voice over]  The trick is to assume your life is going to work out. Of course, it never does, so you do the next best thing: you take it one disaster at a time.

• Chuck Fishman : [voice over]  So maybe that's the secret, when you get right down to it: treat every day like it was your last, or your best.

• Chuck Fishman : [voice over]  It's easy to be cynical. Especially today, when it looks like all our heroes are crooks, our role models frauds. Every now and again, however, when you least expect it, the real thing comes along: someone who can find the heart inside the cynic and give those who hold nothing sacred something to believe in. It's not always easy telling the good from the bad, even if you do get tomorrow's paper today. Why, is why. Sometimes, to find the answers, you have to look in your heart.

• Chuck Fishman : See, I have this thing about snakes. It"s called 'fear of death."

• Chuck Fishman : [voice over]  There's all kind of courage out there. Hey, that person standing next to you on the subway car, in the supermarket, take a closer look next time. Who knows, it might be you're standing next to a hero.

• Chuck Fishman : You know, that's just like you. Heaven passes right under your nose and you don't even blink.

• Chuck : Why are we here? I hated college. Deadlines, term papers, cram study sessions, stupid touch football games, dorms, ugh, communal showers, toilets with no doors, waking up in the middle of the night, drunk, in the parking lot, naked.

  Gary : I don't remember that.

  Chuck : You know what? Since we have graduated, I do not even remotely miss anything about college.

  [a pretty girl walks by and looks at them] 

  Chuck : I stand corrected.

• Chuck Fishman : But you get tomorrow's newspaper, which, may I add, is a real ice-breaker.

• Chuck : Better safe than. Ahhhhh... What-ever!

• Chuck : They say things happen for a reason, but that reason may not always be clear. In time, with faith, the meaning may emerge. What was, what is, what shall be. Pieces of a puzzle, falling into place.