Thirtysomething (TV Series)
Competition (1988)
Mel Harris: Hope Murdoch Steadman
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Quotes
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Michael Steadman : [jealous of Elliot's bond with Breslow] I found out about the account. I made the cold call. I set up the appointment. I did the research. I called the auditions. I booked the studio. I wrote the copy. How come he's the one who gets the shoes?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Michael, you know I hate to discuss business when I don't have any underwear on.
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Hope Murdoch Steadman : You wanna meet for lunch later?
Michael Steadman : No, I've got something with Gary.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : It wasn't that bad, was it?
Michael Steadman : Not since Ed Muskie wept in the New England snow has a man so artfully shot himself in the foot as I did.
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Nancy Krieger Weston : I've made a terrible mistake.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : You've made a decision.
Nancy Krieger Weston : A terrible decision.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : We won't know that for another hour.
Nancy Krieger Weston : Oh, God. Look at all the mess here.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Eh, it's just surface mess. There's another, much more profound mess underneath.
Nancy Krieger Weston : I mean, I wish I just didn't feel like I was taking advantage of you, but i-it's just that I thought if the two of us could work on this computer together and I couldn't get it to work, well, then, it would never actually have been in my house, and I would feel like less of a failure taking it back.
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Hope Murdoch Steadman : Juices not flowing?
Michael Steadman : Deadlines. I hate deadlines. I always have. They make me feel like a deer on the thruway looking up at a pair of high beams.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : That's probably why you chose a low-pressure, open-framed business like advertising.
Michael Steadman : It was either that or forestry, so...
Hope Murdoch Steadman : I-I got Nancy's computer to work.
Michael Steadman : Great.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot to check the nurturing schedule. It must be my turn.
Michael Steadman : I'd feel a lot better if I knew Elliot was sitting on the floor of his living room as blocked as I am.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Maybe he is.
Michael Steadman : I know the guy. He'd put up with this hell for 15 minutes, then he'd move on to something else because he knows I'll stick with it and figure out a way to make it work.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Well, you're linear and he's not. You make charts, he doodles.
Michael Steadman : I doodle.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Yeah, but your doodles are like the carvings on a Mayan temple: linear, perfect, and thought out.
Michael Steadman : You make me sound very dull.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Oh, you're not dull. You're very solid and very handsome. It's just that if you and Elliot both had the same approach to solving problems, I mean, what would the point be? This way, you fill in each other's gaps.
Michael Steadman : I bet if Rob Petrie had had more support like this from Laura, he'd have had the guts to quit "The Alan Brady Show".
Michael Steadman , Hope Murdoch Steadman : And write that novel.
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Michael Steadman : Elliot was so smug and so innocent and so condescending.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : You're the one who blew up.
Michael Steadman : You're the one who told me to confront him.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : I told you to talk to him, not confront him. I think the man has a right to contribute to the project.
Michael Steadman : You can support me... or be neutral. Those are the choices today.
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Ellyn Warren : I'm returning "Doctor Zhivago".
Hope Murdoch Steadman : What'd you think?
Ellyn Warren : Uh, women that cold shouldn't look that good.
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Hope Murdoch Steadman : I thought his suggestions for the copy were kind of cute.
Michael Steadman : How do you know what his changes were?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Well, Elliot put them into Nancy's computer, and Nancy thought she'd screwed it up, and I helped her save the document.
Michael Steadman : You helped her.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Yes.
Michael Steadman : Blindsided in my own home. Bushwhacked in the bosom of my family.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Bosoms have nothing to do with it.
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Michael Steadman : Honey, would you put down on the shopping list new batteries for the toothpaste?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Oh, really, Michael.
Michael Steadman : You know our daughter is growing up in a world without tubes? Really, she's never gonna have to face the challenge of what to do with that little, hard plunk of toothpaste you always get when the person you love and live with forgets to put the cap back on.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : [fixing it] There.
Michael Steadman : How'd you do that?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : It's just an ascending ratchet.
Michael Steadman : A what?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : The technology that lives in every woman's lipstick.
Michael Steadman : And who says cosmetics are a push-off for the holidays?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : [kissing] Can you put your clothes on? I'm having trouble controlling myself.