Thirtysomething (TV Series)
Michael Writes a Story (1989)
Timothy Busfield: Elliot Weston
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Quotes
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Miles Drentell : Why don't you and your faithful Indian companion come in, say, Thursday, and have a nice chat?
Michael Steadman : You're kidding.
Miles Drentell : [expecting a different answer] Okay.
Michael Steadman : Are you kidding?
Miles Drentell : Would you like me to be kidding?
Michael Steadman : You want us to come in?
Elliot Weston : Yes.
Miles Drentell : [jovially sarcastic] No, I dialed your number by mistake and I'm trying to cover.
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Elliot Weston : This is a great building plan. Man, I love this building!
Michael Steadman : He's jerking us, Elliot.
Elliot Weston : No, he's not, he's dancing with us, Mike.
Michael Steadman : El, it isn't even a job.
Elliot Weston : Oh, there's a job, all right.
Michael Steadman : Oh, man. That guy's got such an attitude.
Elliot Weston : It's okay, man. He can do it. He can do that, man. That's DAA out there, Mike. This agency's so cool, they don't even have to be in New York. We just gotta figure out what he wants us to do, that's all.
Michael Steadman : He wants us to grovel, Elliot.
Elliot Weston : What? I can do that.
Michael Steadman : What, so we can sit in his ergonomically designed workspace? Listen to him pontificate about how he re-invented appetizers?
Elliot Weston : Hey, what's the matter with you? You like being in purgatory?
Michael Steadman : He wants us to beg, Elliot. He wants us to beg.
Elliot Weston : Yeah? Well, so?
Michael Steadman : Yeah, well, so, I got this trick knee. Before I get down on it to beg, I have to know what I'm begging for.
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Nancy Krieger Weston : [as Woman In The Blue Dress] We move through life, trapped by time and events, our empty days piling up like discarded socks in God's hamper.
Michael Steadman : [as Harrison] She was depressed.
Nancy Krieger Weston : We struggle, but what does it get us?
Michael Steadman : Perhaps nothing. Perhaps love.
Michael Steadman : [narrating] She looked at him and smiled.
Nancy Krieger Weston : You're a funny sort of a guy, aren't ya?
Michael Steadman : [narrating] It was a sad smile just the same.
Nancy Krieger Weston : But I'm afraid, we met a lifetime too late.
Michael Steadman : [narrating] The door of the coffee shop opened with the sound of a sad bell. He took his eyes off the woman and watched a man walk in.
Nancy Krieger Weston : [standing and pulling out a gun] Clive.
Elliot Weston : [as Clive] Rebecca! I can explain everything! I mean, really, I can!
Nancy Krieger Weston : That's the problem, isn't it?
Nancy Krieger Weston : [shooting Clive twelve times with a revolver and collapsing into Harrison's arms with a heavy sigh] We met...
Michael Steadman : She whispered.
Nancy Krieger Weston : ...at a carnival.
Ivy Dunbar : [after a stunned, embarrassed silence engulfs the classroom] 'Socks in Gods hamper'?
Michael Steadman : It was a metaphor.
Ivy Dunbar : That would be one way to describe it, yes.