Actor Jack tells his teacher/writer friend Miles, “You’re... hungover.” (0:06)
Television documentary narrator: “To replace them, HItler turned to his last resort of manpower.” (0:11)
Jack tells Miles, “You have been officially depressed for, like, two years now.”
”Are you still seeing that shrink?”
”Well, I say... therapy, and what is that stuff you take, Xanax?”
Miles: ”And Lexapro, yes.” (0:16)
Miles tells Jack, “Well, usually they start you on wines with learning disabilities...” (0:19)
Jack reprises an excerpt from one of his acting jobs for waitress Maya: “Side effects may include oily discharge...” (0:26)
Jack tells Miles, “... and you are not going to... it up for me with all of your depression and anxiety and neg-head downer shit.”
”Man, this is our week to get crazy.” (0:28)
Jack answers Miles, “Because I knew you’d get so freaked out that you wouldn’t even come on this trip...”
Miles: “Everybody’s gonna be... waiting to see if I get drunk and make a seen.” (0:35)
Jack asks Miles, “Did you bring you Xanax?” (0:39)
By telephone his ex-wife Victoria tells Miles, “... you’re drunk.”
’Miles, don’t call me when you’re drunk.” (0:44)
Wine server Stephanie tell the others, “I’ve got wine, some insane cheeses...” (0:48)
Waitress Maya tells Miles, “Too much alcohol,”
”... I’ve got this paper due on Friday, and I’m freaked out about it, just like in high school.” (0:51)
Jack asks Miles, “You mean getting drunk and calling Victoria didn’t put you in the mood?” (1:04)
Jack tells Miles, referring to Stephanie, “She’s not uptight or controlling.”
Miles: ”You’re crazy. You’ve gone crazy.”
Jack: “All I have is my instinct. (1:10)
Miles answers Jack, “Obsessively.” (1:16)
By telephone Jack tells his fiance Christine, referring to Miles, “He’s having one of his freak outs.” (1:29)
Miles tells Jack, “I’m so insignificant, I can’t even kill myself.”
”Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can’t kill yourself before you’ve even been published.”
Jack, referring to an author, “He committed suicide before he was published.” (1:33)
Jack asks Miles, “Vicodin, where’s the Vicodin?” (1:42)
Miles listens to voicemail left by Maya: “... I was really confused by the ending. I mean, did the father finally commit suicide, or what? It’s driving me crazy.” (2:02)
Reference in About Schmidt