David Copperfield (1993 TV Movie)
Terrence Scammell: Butcher, Baker
Quotes
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Murdstone : [singing] We've fixed the place up special, we've even polished off your chains. Look at all our smiling guests!
Mr. Grimby : Not one of them complains!
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Murdstone : There's no reason we can't control the world's cheese market!
Mr. Grimby : There isn't?
Murdstone : No one can make cheese cheaper than Murdstone... and Grimby.
Mr. Grimby : No one's thought of using free labour.
Murdstone : Oh, others think of it, we do it!
[scoffs]
Murdstone : If only there wasn't the rent to pay.
Mr. Grimby : If only.
Murdstone : We'd have all the money we need to expand.
Mr. Grimby : [rubbing his stomach] Expand? I love expanding! Except...
Murdstone : Except what?
Mr. Grimby : The Duke wants a fortune for the factory.
Murdstone : Such a fortune is almost in my hands.
Mr. Grimby : It is?
Murdstone : Clara Copperfield's health is not improving. Especially since her boy...
[produces and destroys letters]
Murdstone : never answers her letters.
[his bird yells in protest]
Mr. Grimby : Naughty naughty Mr. Murdstone.
Murdstone : Merely good business Mr. Grimby. Soon our little cheeseworks will become... an empire!