Pete Scanlon Did you ever hear the saying "A picture holds a thousands words."
That's only for people like you who don't know a thousand words.
Pete Scanlon I know two, and the first one begins with an "F".
Played by Edward Burns 
Life or Something Like It (2002) · 18 quotes
Life or Something Like It (2002) · 18 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Life or Something Like It (2002): in 11 of its 18 quotes
Most scenes with: Lanie Kerrigan (10)
Scenes with Pete Scanlon
11 scenes Pete Scanlon Pete Scanlon Under the circumstances, I think it would be best if we kept things on a purely professional level.
Pete Scanlon Define "the circumstances".
We have to work together. We don't have to like it.
Well, I hope your happy.
Pete Scanlon Define happiness.
Your death.
Pete Scanlon Do you have another cameraman who can make look like a natural blonde?
I'm not just a reporter. I'm a TV personality. My hair is my trademark. Just like the "I don't like to shower" look is your trademark.
You don't bother me. You can't. Because no matter how you would like to define it, I can honestly say, at this point, my life is perfect.
Pete Scanlon Define perfection.
Pete Scanlon Take a deep breath.
Pete Scanlon [Lanie did deep breathing]
Feel better? Take one more.
What would you do if you only had a week to live.
Pete Scanlon I would try to live every moment and I would go to all the people that mean most to me, and I would try to memorize their faces.
I'm marrying Cal. I know this is hard for you to accept.
Pete Scanlon Well. Listen Lanie. You are the single most delusional, most self-absorbed, self-involved, egomaniac woman that I've ever met.
Hmm... Umm... Let's have sex.
My life is over. I'm officially dead. Just stopped breathing. I'm dead.
Pete Scanlon Define life.
Lanie Kerrighan
My career. My network job. My wedding. Ok?
Pete Scanlon Do you really think if you have no job and no boyfriend then your life is over?
Pete Scanlon You are full of shit. She is not gonna die. Because she did get the job. The network job you said she wasn't gonna get. Which means you were wrong.
Was I?
Pete Scanlon What is that supposed to mean?
If she dies tomorrow, she doesn't get the job. And I was right.
Pete Scanlon Look. I don't want the opportunity to pass me by again. So I should have told you this a long time ago. But I've loved you since the first day I met you.
Define love.
Pete Scanlon Lanie. I want to spend the rest of my life with you.
