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Searching for Bobby Fischer Quotes

Searching for Bobby Fischer is a television show that first aired in 1970 . Searching for Bobby Fischer completed its run in 1970.

It features William Horberg as producer, James Horner in charge of musical score, and John Corso as head of cinematography.

Searching for Bobby Fischer is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Searching for Bobby Fischer is 110 min. long. Searching for Bobby Fischer is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Max Pomeranc as Josh, Laurence Fishburne as Vinnie, Max Pomeranc as Josh Waitzkin, Ben Kingsley as Bruce Pandolfini, Ben Kingsley as Bruce, Joe Mantegna as Fred, Joan Allen as Bonnie, and Michael Nirenberg as Jonathan Poe.

Searching for Bobby Fischer Quotes

Joe Mantegna as Fred

  • (Joe Mantegna) "So were you two talking about chess up there?"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "No, it didn't come up."
  • (Joe Mantegna) "You know you could give up the game, and that would be all right with me. In fact, I want you to give it up."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "But I can't."
  • (Joe Mantegna) "Why not?"
  • (Max Pomeranc) "Because I have to play. I have to."
  • (Joe Mantegna) "He's better at this than I've ever been at anything in my life. He's better at this than you'll ever be, at anything. My son has a gift. He has a gift, and when you acknowledge that, then maybe we will have something to talk about."
  • (Unnamed) "If your son wins this game and my son wins his, they'll be playing together."
  • (Joe Mantegna) "Wow. I can hardly wait."
  • (Unnamed) "Hey. It's only a game."
  • (Unnamed) "I'm gonna get myself a tuna fish sandwich. Can I get you a sandwich; ?"
  • (Joe Mantegna) "No that's ok --"
  • (Unnamed) "I'm gonna get you a tuna fish sandwich."

Max Pomeranc as Josh Waitzkin

  • (Max Pomeranc) "I'm playing chess with my dad."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "Chess. It's a game, like Monopoly."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "In the days before the event, the whole world wondered if he would show up. Plane after plane waited on the runway, while he napped, took walks, and ate sandwiches. Henry Kissinger called and asked him to go for his country's honor. Soon after arriving, he offended the Icelanders by calling their country inadequate because it had no bowling alleys. He complained about the TV cameras, about the lighting, about the table and chairs, and the contrast of the squares on the board. His hotel room, he said, had too nice a view. None of this has anything to do with chess of course. But maybe it did. If he won, he'd be the first American world champion in history. If he lost, he'd just be another patzer from Brooklyn."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "Come on, Bruce."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "All right."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "Can we go to the dealerships now?"
  • (Joe Mantegna) "But the game's not over, yet."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "Yes, it is."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "Maybe it's better not to be the best. Then you can lose and it's OK."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "Can we get some brochures now?"
  • (Joe Mantegna) "Sure, pee and get your coat."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "You've lost, you just don't know it yet."

Michael Nirenberg as Jonathan Poe

  • (Michael Nirenberg) "Trick or Treat."

Joan Allen as Bonnie

  • (Joan Allen) "You have a good heart. And that's the most important thing in the world."
  • (Joan Allen) "He's not afraid of losing. He's afraid of losing your love. How many ball players grow up afraid of losing their fathers' love every time they come up to the plate?"
  • (Joe Mantegna) "All of them."
  • (Joan Allen) "He knows you disapprove of him. He knows you think he's weak. But he's not weak. He's decent. And if you or Bruce or anyone else tries to beat that out of him, I swear to God I'll take him away."

Ben Kingsley as Bruce Pandolfini

  • (Ben Kingsley) "Paraphrase: Look at the board, can you see it?"
  • (Max Pomeranc) "I can't see it."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Can you see it now?"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Ooh."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Clear the lines of lint in your head, one at a time, and the king will be left standing alone, like a guy on a street corner. Here, I'll make it easier for you."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Now, which one is you?"
  • (Max Pomeranc) "What do you mean?"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Which one is you?"
  • (Max Pomeranc) "They're just pieces."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "This is you."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "It's white's move."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "How many points is it worth?"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "It's just an opening move."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "I want to know how much it's worth."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Just do it for its own sake. Do it for the love of the game."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "I want to know how many more points I am away to getting the certificate."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Forget the certificate."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "Why?"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "I don't know."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "What do you mean?"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "I don't care. It's -- white's move."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "I want the certificate."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "You want the certificate. You have to have the certificate."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "You won't move until you get the certificate."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Fine. You win."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Here's your certificate."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Fill it out. It doesn't mean anything. It's just a piece of paper. It's a xerox of a piece of paper. Do you want another one"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Do you want 10?"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Do you want 20?"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "30? I've got a whole briefcase full of them. They don't mean anything, though."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "They mean nothing."
  • (Joan Allen) "Get out of my house."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "To put a child in a position to care about winning and not to prepare him is wrong."
  • (Joan Allen) "Get out of my house."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Look deep, Josh. It's there. It's twelve moves away, but it's there. You've got him."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "You have no idea what I want. What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art. I spent my life trying to play like him. Most of these guys have. But we're like forgers. We're competent fakes. His successor wasn't here tonight. He wasn't here. He is asleep in his room in your house. Your son creates like Fischer. He sees like him, inside."
  • (Joe Mantegna) "You can tell this by watching him play some drunks in the park?"
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Yes. You want to know what I want. I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "Bobby Fischer held the world in contempt."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "Well, I'm not him."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "You're telling me."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "His chess ideas are like pieces of his body he's reluctant to give up. For instance, he simply can't cope with being told not to bring his queen out too early in the game. Why shouldn't he? He's won many a game in Washington Square doing exactly that, why is this suddenly wrong?"
  • (Joe Mantegna) "Try getting him to brush his teeth sometime."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games."
  • (Joe Mantegna) "Well, he's learning some new words."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "I was wondering if you could keep him from playing there so much."
  • (Joe Mantegna) "Sure."
  • (Joan Allen) "No. It'd kill him not to play in the park. He loves it."
  • (Ben Kingsley) "It just makes my job harder."
  • (Joan Allen) "Then your job's harder."

Laurence Fishburne as Vinnie

  • (Laurence Fishburne) "He didn't teach you how to win, he taught you how not to lose. That's nothing to be proud of. You're playing not to lose, Josh. You've got to risk losing. You've got to risk everything. You've got to go to the edge of defeat. That's where you want to be, boy; on the edge of defeat."
  • (Max Pomeranc) "But --"
  • (Laurence Fishburne) "But what? Play. Never play the board, always the man. You've gotta play the man playing the board. Play me. I'm your opponent, you have to beat me. Not the board, beat me."
  • (Laurence Fishburne) "There it is."
  • (Laurence Fishburne) "What's that?"
  • (Max Pomeranc) "Schliemann attack."
  • (Laurence Fishburne) "Schliemann attack? Where'd you learn that from, a book?"
  • (Max Pomeranc) "No, my teacher taught me."
  • (Laurence Fishburne) "Oh, your teacher. Well, forget it. Play like you used to, from the gut. Get your pawns rolling on the queen's side. Come and get me."

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