Jack the Bear

John Leary:
We're at a crossroads, can you feel it? It's dark down there and there are things nobody wants to meet in the dark. Whether we'll come out on the other side, hating everything and everybody, I don't know.

John Leary:
Jackie, my heart's beginning to beat with the monster's heart.

Norman Strick:
[having hit the wrong person with his baseball bat] Home run, Jack.

Norman Strick:
Jack, are you in there?

John Leary:
[about getting his job back] You have to trust me.

Gordon Layton:
Why?

John Leary:
Because I can't lose my kids.

Jack Leary:
Nothing is alright!

John Leary:
Then we're gonna make it alright.

Norman Strick:
I just wanna talk to you, Jack. Don't you wanna talk to me?

[first lines]

Jack Leary:
I thought I knew all about monsters. I used to watch them late at night on Dad's TV show. After we moved to Oakland, he stopped doing kid's shows, because he was different now. Everything was different. Now he was Al Gory, monster of ceremonies at Midnight Shriek.

John Leary:
[to the neighborhood kids] There's no such thing as monsters. You all know that, don't you? Monsters exist only in ourselves. They live in the darkest chambers of our hearts. They never actually come out into the world. Unless of course a metal light appears in the sky. But when's the last time you saw that? So why don't we try and be adults about this and run along home, okay?

John Leary:
I moved across the street form a goddamned nazi. Oh my God! "N*ggers and Jews." Excuse me Mrs. Sampson. You're not Jewish, are you?

Mrs. Sampson:
No. I'm a Jehovah's Witness.

John Leary:
I didn't poison your dog, Norman. If you knew me better, you'd know it's not my style. I'd have shot him.

Jack Leary:
I need to know if you plan on being Bozo the Clown your whole life.

John Leary:
Listen to this. Who's the father and who's the son here?

Jack Leary:
I don't know!

[last lines]

John Leary:
Say it again. What did you say? Say it again. Say it again.

Dylan Leary:
[whispering the name of his mom's favorite story] Jack the Bear.