City Island Page #2

at this letter on a piece of paper.

on this piece of paper...

...and I can get a 4.0 GPA average.

For what? So I can grow up and

become another meaningless...

Prison guard? Like your father

who also does not have a college degree.

Nice.

That's not what I was gonna say but...

Excuse me.

First of all, it's a correctional officer

and you know what happens

if you don't go to college?

You wind up answering phones for a living.

That's nice for you,

if you wanna hear that kind of stuff.

I went to Ianto.

Two years on Ianto which is

not exactly a Harvard degree.

Well, if I hadn't gotten pregnant

I would've gotten my degree.

Great, mom. So I supposed

that ties the game.

Do not spoil my college degree.

I'm just saying if I hadn't gotten pregnant

I would've had a degree.

Yeah, but you wouldn't have hers.

So what? Degree, you daughter?

We all know what you're saying.

Where are you going?

- I got a poker game.

Play hard, pops.

- Shut up, Vinnie.

My life is falling apart.

It's all crumbling.

Louder, I can't hear you.

I need to know

you love me.

I...

Say it.

Jesus Christ.

Yes.

I love you.

Wait a minute, why

did you need to pause here?

What were all those pauses for?

What were they?

What do you mean?

You said 2 lines and I

counted 4 pauses in 2 lines.

Why do you need a pause

before you say, "what"?

Oh, he's stalling for time.

- Why? I mean does he love her or does he not love her?

He does love her.

- So what the hell you need to pause for? Listen.

We have the Collar Moratorium on pauses.

Five years of my life is going out the window...

...listening to pauses in this room.

I can't do it anymore.

So we gotta cut out the pauses.

In 2000 years of theatre history

you'll never find anybody pausing.

The only pause - they either

or they listen.

They did their acting while they were talking.

All of a sudden, Marlon Brando comes

in to the picture about 45, 50 years ago.

And everybody says:

"Oh my God, the man is a genius."

Did you see him thinking?

Did you see Brando in the fugitive kind?

Anybody see that?

Somebody asked Brando

what his name is.

He's gonna think about it.

Why does he have to think about that?

Takes me half an hour

to get back to the guy.

It's not acting and

it's not thinking. It's just...

well, it's just bullshit.

No more pauses!

If you wanna think, think in

the privacy of your own heart.

Otherwise, very nice work.

Very good.

Okay, everybody up. Stretch.

Nice deep stretch.

I can't talk right now.

I don't know maybe Monday.

Just give my shift to Autumn.

Alright bye.

Who was that?

Work.

And you, and you...

Okay.

All the people I've mentioned turn

left and face your new partner.

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