Peep Show (TV Series)

The Affair (2009)

David Mitchell: Mark Corrigan

Quotes 

• Mark Corrigan : But Elena's betrayed you, how does it make a difference that it's with another woman?

  Jeremy Usborne : Because it's hot! I mean, even a dried-up, desiccated old Bran Flake on toast like you should be able to see that.

  Mark Corrigan : [voiceover]  If I'm a Bran Flake, he's a slutty Sugar Puff.

• Johnson : Here's my pitch: new management consultancy, you and me. I'm the face, you're the, uh, tendons and the grisly shit under the surface. Whaddaya say?

  Mark Corrigan : Oh my God... I don't know. Really?

  Johnson : Look at you! You're like the fat girl who's just been asked to the school disco.

  Mark Corrigan : Well, yeah... my only hesitation is that I don't have any actual experience of management consulting...

  [Johnson shuts Mark's lips with his fingers] 

  Johnson : In, fire 30% of the workforce, new logo, boom! Out. You are now a fully trained management consultant.

• Mark Corrigan : Yes, I got Rizla papers. Normal, I refuse to buy "King Skins", it's like asking to buy a hypodermic needle.

• Mark Corrigan : [Mark has caught Elena on the phone to another lover]  So, everything going good with Elena, do you feel?

  Jeremy Usborne : Amazing. It's impossibe to say how great she is just using stupid words. Maybe one day you'll fall in love and then you'll understand.

  Mark Corrigan : Uh-huh, maybe.

  [voiceover] 

  Mark Corrigan : Could wipe that patronizing smile off his face with the truth. No, it'll be like picking off innocent bystanders with a sniper rifle, fun at first but it would quickly become a depressing chore.

• Jeremy Usborne : How's it going with Consultiarium?

  Mark Corrigan : Brilliant. Great. One good thing is I'm worrying quite a lot of the time whether Johnson isn't totally losing his nut.

  Jeremy Usborne : Really?

  Mark Corrigan : Yeah. I look at him sometimes now and think, you know, has Daddy's hat fallen off?

  Jeremy Usborne : Daddy's hat?

  Mark Corrigan : Yes, has daddy's hat fallen off and he's just standing there naked?

• Johnson : Relax, Mark. You've seen this from the Sales Direct guys?

  [he hands Mark a letter] 

  Johnson : They say they look foward to hearing from us in the future. They "look foward to it". Now, what about that doesn't spell to you serious interest?

  Mark Corrigan : Right.

  [voiceover] 

  Mark Corrigan : Just keep nodding and smiling. Nodding and smiling like Colonel Gaddafi's psychoanalyst.