The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

Shatterday/A Little Peace and Quiet (1985)

Bruce Willis: Peter Novins (segment "Shatterday")

Photos 

Quotes 

• Peter Jay Novins : [to his alter-ego on the other end of the phone]  What do you mean I can't lead a happy life? What do you know about it?

  Peter Jay Novins : What do *I* know about *your* life? Who do you think you're talking to? This is *me*, Novins. *Me*!

  Peter Jay Novins : There's nothing wrong with my life! Not one thing! Nothing!

  [Nervous] 

  Peter Jay Novins : So what's so wrong with it, wise guy?

  Peter Jay Novins : Everything! Just about every piece of a stinks on ice. The sad part is, you know it, and you still won't make repairs. Well, that changes. From today on, that changes.

• Peter Jay Novins : Look - this is crazy. Even if all this is true, even if we're *both* Novins, there's nothing that says we can't both exist, can't both lead happy, separate lives.

  Peter Jay Novins : Who are you kidding? You can't lead a happy life by yourself. And how're you gonna do it knowing I'm over here living your life too? You never were much one for sharing.

• Peter Jay Novins : [to his alter-ego on the other end of the phone]  It's just that - ev-everybody deserves to go on living.

  Peter Jay Novins : Oh, God. Spare me the philosophy, will you, Novins? You don't believe that for a second; you're a misanthrope, you hate people.

  Peter Jay Novins : Not true. I just hate some of the things people do. Like guys who put "Save the Whale" bumper-stickers on their cars and then buy their wives fur coats.

  Peter Jay Novins : Hypocrite. You have the gall to complain about that when you took on that Cumberland account?

  Peter Jay Novins : That's another thing entirely!

  Peter Jay Novins : Sure it is. You know damn well Cumberland is gonna strip mine the guts out of that county, and they'll get away with it... with that publicity campaign *you* dreamed up. Great PR man, Novins, but you got the ethics of a weasel!

  Peter Jay Novins : For God's sake, what was I supposed to do? I have to make a living, don't I? If I didn't do it someone else would've. I suppose you would've turned it down.

  Peter Jay Novins : That's exactly what I did, old buddy. I called them this morning and told them to stuff that account up their noses.