The Newsroom (TV Series)

We Just Decided To (2012)

Sam Waterston: Charlie Skinner

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• Charlie Skinner : I'm a marine, Don! I will beat the shit out of you! I don't care how many protein bars you eat!

• Charlie Skinner : I was in a bar in Da Nang...

  Will McAvoy : Just now?

  Charlie Skinner : 1969. I was embedded with the 144th Artillery for UPI, and I was sitting there with a warm Coke watching a beautiful Vietnamese woman doing an exotic dance right in the middle of everybody. A beautiful, beautiful woman, and I thought to myself "I will never know what it is to be with a woman like that." And at that exact moment, the woman spun twice, teetered over, and fell right into my lap. That was a story about how sometimes some things just fall into your lap.

• Charlie Skinner : You were unreachable! Only one person knew where you were.

  Will McAvoy : It was you!

• Charlie Skinner : For a long time I've wanted to watch the news on my TV at night. Then it occurred to me: I run a news division.