Bicentennial Man. Nicholas Kazan (1)

Andrew Martin: I've always tried to make sense of things. There must be some reason I am as I am…
… I am growing old, my body is deteriorating, and like all of you, will eventually cease to function. But I tell you all today, I would rather die a man, than live for all eternity a machine.

President Marjorie Bota: Why do you want this?

Andrew Martin: To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity.


(1) Based on the novel The Positronic Man, co-written by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg