Melanie Griffith Quotes

Working Girl

Miscommunication and Ambiguity in Relationships

Tess McGill Why did you say you weren't you last night?

Jack Trainer Because I knew it would happen. All Mergers and Acquisitions. No lust and tequila.

Tess McGill That was... I mean that just happened, okay? I want to make it clear, um... What did happen, exactly?

Jack Trainer The earth moved. The angels wept. The Polaroids are, are, uh... are in my other coat. Nothing happened. Nothing happened!

[gropes about in his coat pockets; grins]

Tess McGill I woke up in my underwear.

Jack Trainer I'll bet you look nice.

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Working Girl

A Proposal with Uncertain Response

Mick Dugan Tess, will you marry me?

Tess McGill Maybe.

Mick Dugan Ya call that an answer?

Tess McGill You want another answer, ask another girl.

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Working Girl

Navigating Social Challenges and Misunderstandings

Tess McGill Shoot me, just shoot me.

Cynthia Will you cut that out, they didn't throw you out, did they?

Tess McGill Well, they don't exactly have bouncers at these things, they're a little more subtle than that, Cyn. Oh God, and last night!

Cynthia Yeah, I should've checked the miligrams. Live and learn. Well, maybe, he'll feel sorry for you and make it up to your doing your deal or whatever it is.

Tess McGill I'm not looking for sympathy. You know, I had a shot at it... you know!

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The Bonfire of the Vanities

Confronting Tragedy and Social Disparities

Reverend Bacon This is a tragedy! A fine young man has been struck down. God- fearing, church-going, never in trouble, graduating from high school, ready for college - and somebody comes along - some rich white people in a rich white man's car and wham! They run him down and never even stop. Now what are we going to do about these parking tickets?

[about the incident with Henry Lamb]

Judy McCoy I'm leaving you! After the party... and now, if you will excuse me, we have guests.

[pause]

Sir Gerald Moore I was at dinner last evening, and halfway through the pudding, this four-year-old child came alone, dragging a little toy cart. And on the cart was a fresh turd. Her own, I suppose. The parents just shook their heads and smiled. I've made a big investment in you, Peter. Time and money, and it's not working. Now, I could just shake my head and smile. But in my house, when a turd appears, we throw it out. We dispose of it. We flush it away. We don't put it on the table and call it caviar.

Maria Ruskin Sherman... where are all the white people?

[when she and Sherman end up in Bronx]

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Working Girl

A Unique Encounter in Business Attire

Jack Trainer I've been looking for you.

Tess McGill Why, do you know me?

Jack Trainer No. No, but I promised myself that when I saw you, I would get to know you. You're the first woman I've seen in one of these damn things that dresses like a woman, not like a woman thinks a man would dress if he was a woman.

Tess McGill Thank you I guess.

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Born Yesterday

Questioning Trust and Learning in Relationships

Billie Dawn Did you teach me to cheat cause you think I can't learn?

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Working Girl

Conflict Over Commitment and Communication

Mick Dugan I want to get things solidified. Things in my life! You're not the only one with plans, you know!

Tess McGill I said, maybe.

Mick Dugan Maybe means dick! Fuck maybe! I want an answer now!

Tess McGill Please, don't yell at me! You treat me like I'm dumb!

Mick Dugan Why are we always talkin about the way you get treated, huh? Who the fuck died and made you Grace Kelly?!

Tess McGill I am not steak! You can't just order me!

Mick Dugan Look, I don't need this! You get your priorities straight, maybe we'll talk. Right now, we're history.

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Pacific Heights

Conflict Escalates in a Tense Confrontation

Patty Palmer Drake! Stop it, you're killing him! Stop it! Drake! GODDAMN IT!

[as Drake and Carter fight]

Patty Palmer Stop it!

Patty Palmer You all right?

Drake Goodman You're arresting the wrong FUCKING man! YOU'RE ARRESTING THE WRONG MAN!

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Cecil B. Demented

Disagreement Over Limousine Color and Contract

Honey Whitlock A WHITE fucking LIMOUSINE?!

Libby Nobody will know, we're in Baltimore!

Honey Whitlock Do I look like Liberace's god-damn boyfriend for Christ sake? I have black limousine only in my contract!

Libby The charity probably made the arrangement, it was a honest mistake.

Honey Whitlock Do I look like a coke dealer?!

Libby No, Ms. Whitlock.

Honey Whitlock Do I look like I am going to the FUCKING PROM?!

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Body Double

Murder and Deception Unfold in Conversation

Jake Scully The truth is a woman was murdered.

Jake Scully Holly, it's not funny a woman was murdered! Look, you and I were set up by a murderer! He wanted to be sure that I witnessed the murder, that's why he hired you to do your routine. He wanted to make sure that I was watching and that I would keep watching. Holly are you listening to me?

Holly Body Yes. I don't understand what you said.

Jake Scully WELL LISTEN HE'S A MURDERER, THE MAN WHO HIRED YOU IS A MURDERER.

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Working Girl

Ambition and the Complexity of Rules

Tess McGill You can bend the rules plenty once you get to the top, but not while you're trying to get there. And if you're someone like me, you can't get there without bending the rules

Oren Trask You've got a real fire in your belly. Or was this just a one-time stunt that you pulled?

Tess McGill I'm not quite sure what you mean, sir. I've got something in my belly, but I think it's nervous knots.

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Cecil B. Demented

Struggles with Identity and Affection

Honey Whitlock Ow Rodney, why do you have to hurt me? Gay men are supposed to be gentle!

Rodney That's just it, Honey, I'm not gay. I'm straight and I fucking hate it! Petey loves me and I can't love him back. I tried. I kiss him, and all I feel is whiskers. I can't take that certain thickness in his pants. I'm ashamed of my heterosexuality!

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Shining Through

Observation Test and Its Surprising Insights

Ed Leland What I was going to ask you to do is stand up, turn around, and close your eyes and tell me everything you see in the room. It's an observation test. Do you really have a problem with that?

Linda Voss Pictures of sailboats and polo ponies; fancy books and diplomas; stuffed fish on the wall; calendar set to the wrong date; bookcases that need dusting; carpets that need cleaning; and a couple of guys from Harvard who are surprised that a girl who needs a job won't be treated like a slave.

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Born Yesterday

The Complexity of Emotions and Expectations

Billie Dawn You know how when somebody dies, it's OK to feel sad, but then at other times, when you're supposed to be happy and you feel sad, it's worse than the times when you're allowed to be sad?

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Working Girl

A Humorous Story Behind a Scar

Tess McGill How did you get the scar?

Jack Trainer Some guy pulled a knife in Detroit.

Tess McGill Really?

Jack Trainer No. No, I was nineteen and I thought it'd be cool to have a pierced ear. My girlfriend stuck the needle through and I heard this pop and fainted and hit my chin on the toilet.

Tess McGill Have you been telling that story ever since?

[laughs]

Jack Trainer You're the only one who knows the true story.

Tess McGill Except the girlfriend?

Jack Trainer I had her, uh... disappear. It's too bad. Nice girl. Real shame.

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Working Girl

Desire for Practical Fashion Choices

Tess McGill Y'know, Mick, just once I could go for like a sweater or some earrings... something that I could actually wear outside of this apartment?

[Mick has bought Tess some lingerie for her birthday]

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Working Girl

Confrontation Over Betrayal in the Workplace

Tess McGill Look, you, maybe you've got everyone around here fooled with this saint act you have going, but do not ever speak to me again like we don't know what really happened! You got me?

[to Katharine]

Katherine Parker Tess, this is business. Let's just bury the hatchet, okay?

Tess McGill You know where you can bury your hatchet? Now get your bony ass outta my sight! And if you really think that I said I loved you as part of some scheme, then that is really pathetic, you know?

[to Jack]

Katharine Parker My God, she'll stop at nothing.

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Working Girl

Business Acumen and Personal Appeal

Tess McGill I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Is there anything wrong with that?

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Body Double

Conflict Between Aspirations and Character Judgment

Jake Scully I'm not a film producer or a rich kid.

Holly Body No, you're a jerk!

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Working Girl

Navigating Business and Personal Boundaries

Tess McGill Look, we're in a business deal together now, and I just don't think that we should get involved that way. My life is real complicated as it is.

[to Jack]

Jack Trainer I don't want to complicate it either. I just thought dinner, maybe a movie.

Tess McGill We both know what we're talking about.

Jack Trainer I certainly hope so!

Tess McGill You know, maybe I just don't like you.

Jack Trainer Me? Naaah!

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Cecil B. Demented

Hair Color Crisis in Clairol Chaos

Honey Whitlock Ow ow ow ow ow ow OW! I don't want to be blonde!

Rodney You're going off the deep end of the Clairol color chart!

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Shining Through

A Tough Decision in a Complicated Relationship

Linda Voss If you don't let me go, I'll quit!

Ed Leland I'll miss you.

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Working Girl

Desk Ownership Dispute in the Workplace

Alice Baxter Uhm, Ms. McGill?

Tess McGill Yes.

Alice Baxter That's your desk... in there...

[pointing to private office]

Tess McGill I don't think so.

Alice Baxter Oh, yes. I sit out here.

Tess McGill Sorry, I thought the secretary would sit out here...

Alice Baxter That's right, I'm the secretary. If you don't mind, I'd prefer assistant...Maybe now would be a good time to go over what you expect from me, Ms. McGill.

Tess McGill I expect you to call me "Tess". I don't expect you to fetch me coffee, unless you're getting some for yourself...and we'll just make up the rest as we go along.

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Body Double

Disillusionment with Hollywood and its inhabitants

Holly Body Weirdo, so many weird people I should never have moved to Hollywood! Fucking freaky actors, that's what there is here. Masochistic directors! I should have known when he didn't even know what a cumshot was.

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Cecil B. Demented

Censorship and Its Connection to Family

Honey Whitlock Family is just a dirty word for censorship!

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Cecil B. Demented

Disdain for Local Cuisine in a Small Town

Honey Whitlock Look at this dump of a town. Get me the fuck back to LA, God, if one more asshole mentions a crab cake to me I'm going to puke.

Libby Well did you try the steamed crabs, they're red and really... tasty.

Honey Whitlock No, I did not! I'm not interested in any kind of meal that you have to beat with a fucking mallet wearing some stupid kind of little bib!

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Working Girl

Tess McGill's Unexpected Location Update

Tess McGill Hey, Cyn. Guess where I am.

[from her new, private office]

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Cecil B. Demented

Finding Focus in Addiction

Honey Whitlock How can you be a drug addict in the new millennium? It's so retro.

Lyle Before I was a drug addict, I had so many different problems. Now I just have one: drugs. Gave my life real focus.

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Working Girl

The Importance of Communication Skills

Tess McGill No lunch. I got speech class.

Cynthia What'dya need speech class for? You talk fine!

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Pacific Heights

Desire for Spurs in Pacific Heights

Patty Palmer I wish I had spurs.

[before sex with Drake]

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Pacific Heights

Conflict Over Tenant Dispute Unfolds

Stephanie MacDonald Why didn't you tell me you tried to force him out?

Drake Goodman I didn't think it mattered.

Stephanie MacDonald You set us back months.

Drake Goodman He's lying!

Stephanie MacDonald This guy has been playing you like a piano concerto.

Drake Goodman Me? What about you? I got a guy livin in my building who hasn't paid one cent! Not only can't you get him out, but now I owe him money?

Stephanie MacDonald Maybe you'd like to retain another attorney.

Patty Palmer Stephanie. Please don't quit. Drake's been under a lot of pressure. The bank is threatening to foreclose on us.

[sighs]

Stephanie MacDonald This isn't a moral question, Patricia. Morally, you're right. You win. Big deal. This is a game and the object of the game is to get Hayes out of your building before he destroys your lives. He knows you're gonna get him out eventually. He's just trying stay there as long as he can.

Patty Palmer Why?

Stephanie MacDonald I don't know! Because it's possible. Because he's evil. What difference does it make? It's nothing personal. God forbid he ever makes it personal.

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Body Double

Unfamiliar Faces and Unexpected Offers

Jake Scully You were great out there. I'll buy you a drink.

[to Holly after shooting a scene together in an adult film]

Holly Body A drink? I don't even know you.

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Pacific Heights

Investigating a Familiar Name in a Case

Lieutenant Lou Baker I recognized the name on the report.

Sergeant Bobby Amato You two know each other?

Lieutenant Lou Baker Bobby, why don't you take these upstairs, see if we can get a running start on where this cretin might fence the appliances.

Sergeant Bobby Amato Sure thing, Lieutenant.

Lieutenant Lou Baker Thank you. I guess you're wishing now you'd rented to the Black man.

[Amato leave]

Patty Palmer You never brought back your application.

Lieutenant Lou Baker Oh, I brought it back.

Patty Palmer I never got it.

Lieutenant Lou Baker Uh-huh. The Porsche in your garage was leased. Hayes made one payment, put stolen plates on it. They've been looking for him ever since. I sent a tow to haul away what's left of It.

Patty Palmer He shot my boyfriend.

Lieutenant Lou Baker I know. You're lucky he didn't kill him. This is a sick individual, Miss Palmer. Be grateful he's out of your life. Right now, you don't mean a thing to him. Leave it that way. If he's gonna get caught, we'll capture him.

Patty Palmer He shot my boyfriend. My boyfriend is in the hospital. He destroyed our property. There are lawsuits, there's the foreclosure. I had a miscarriage. And you're telling me to forget about him?

Lieutenant Lou Baker Next time, maybe he ain't so lucky. Next time, maybe he runs into the man who blows his brains out.

Patty Palmer Next time?

Lieutenant Lou Baker Let him go, Miss Palmer.

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Shining Through

A Conversation About Smoking and Self-Perception

Ed Leland When did you start smoking?

[she lights a cigarette]

Linda Voss I don't know.

Ed Leland That was a silly thing to do, don't you think?

Linda Voss I'm a silly girl, Ed. I think you're living proof of that.

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Working Girl

Cleaning Device Explanation in Working Girl

Cynthia Why does it do that?

[watching a chandelier that lowers from the ceiling]

Tess McGill For cleaning...

Cynthia Are you kiddin me?

Tess McGill No, I'm not.

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Body Double

Compliments and Confusion in Conversation

Jake Scully You're fantastic. Really. Sensational. And I'll tell you something else. You've got a terrific...

Holly Body Body.

Jake Scully Smile.

Holly Body Smile?

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Cecil B. Demented

Family Ties and Unusual Lineage

Raven My father is Zozo, the three-headed guard dog at the gates of Hell.

Honey Whitlock Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

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Born Yesterday

Comment on someone's self-importance

Billie Dawn Oh, don't worry about him. He's too busy being a big man.

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Working Girl

Antihistamines and Unexpected Buzzes

Tess McGill Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.

[after taking several shots of tequila]

Jack Trainer You okay?

Tess McGill Mmm, I'm fine. I'm just fine. I took an antihistamine before, and it makes for a nice little buzz.

Jack Trainer Oh, I didn't know that they let bad girls into these things.

Tess McGill Do I look like I don't belong here?

Jack Trainer No. No, I'm sure that you're a real ace in whatever it is that you do do.

Tess McGill Damn straight.

Jack Trainer But how you look...

Tess McGill I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Is there anything wrong with that?

Jack Trainer Uh, no. No.

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Born Yesterday

Struggling with a Sense of Belonging

Billie Dawn How come I feel like I don't fit in any more? Tell me why am I so unhappy with everything that I used to want.

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Shining Through

Dismissal and Disappointment in Culinary Context

Franze-Otto Dietrich It's me, ze zoup.

[from car to Linda Voss who is walking alone and has just been fired by Horst Drescher]

Franze-Otto Dietrich He dismissed you?

Linda Voss Yes.

Franze-Otto Dietrich Ze doves were raw.

Linda Voss I had no time, I arrived at 6:00.

Franze-Otto Dietrich He ate ze whole thing to pwove it was edible.

[talking to Linda Voss about Horst Drescher and the dinner for raw dove]

Franze-Otto Dietrich You should have seen him. Pompous little ass. Eating a raw bird.

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Born Yesterday

Wealth Does Not Equate to True Living

Billie Dawn You got money, Harry, but you got a cheap life.

Born Yesterday

Perceptions of Effort and Equality in Relationships

Billie Dawn Men are unbelievable. I give and give and give and it's like wallpaper to you. You just walk right past it. Then you make one effort and you think we're equal. It only looks like a big effort because you never made one before.

Now and Then

Acceptance of Life's Challenges

Teeny It's normal for things to be shitty.

Celebrity

Loyalty and Desire: A Complex Dilemma

Nicole Oliver I can't have sex with you! My body belongs to my husband and there is no way that I could betray him in that way. But what I do from the neck up is a different story.

Working Girl

Anticipation of a Proposal

Katharine Parker I think he's it, and I think this could be the weekend we decide. He said that there was something very important that he wanted to discuss with me. I think he's going to pop the question.

Tess McGill What if he doesn't?... pop the question?

Katharine Parker I really don't think that's a variable. We're in the same city now, I've indicated that I'm receptive to an offer, I've cleared the month of June... and I am, after all, me.

Working Girl

Navigating Ambition and Consequences in Life

Cynthia Look, all I'm saying is, if you're so smart, why don't you act smart and save your ass while you still can. Else they're gonna find out, you're not gonna have your job, or any job. You're outta your man and your home already!

Tess McGill I'm gonna come clean as soon as I get my end set up. I swear. I know what I'm doing.

Cynthia Yeah, so do I... screwing up your life.

Tess McGill No, I'm trying to make it better! I'm not gonna spend the rest of my life working my ass off and getting nowhere just because I followed rules that I had nothing to do with setting up, okay?

Cecil B. Demented

Questioning the Presidential Suite's History

Honey Whitlock Libby, do you think that Pat Nixon got fucked in this hotel room?

Libby What?

Honey Whitlock It is called the Presidential Suite, isn't it?

Libby Yes, but...

Honey Whitlock I bet she did. Call the manager and ask him.

Libby I can't ask that! Pat Nixon was a stroke victim!

Honey Whitlock I believe it is your job to ask, is it not? Now call downstairs and ask the manager if Pat Nixon got fucked in my hotel room. I want to know.

Body Double

Understanding Lies and Professional Help

Jake Scully Do you understand?

Holly Body Yes, I understand. I understand you're sick and you're a liar and you need professional help, and I do not like being yelled at.

Jake Scully I'm sorry.

Holly Body I should have known the minute you told me I had a terrific smile, no real porn producer would tell me that in a million years.

Jake Scully Holly, just come with me to the police.

Holly Body The police? Are you crazy? You listen to me, you weirdo. I'm gonna leave now and don't try to follow me home because I have friends who will break your legs!

Body Double

Boundaries in Adult Entertainment

Holly Body I do not do animal acts. I do not do S&M or any variations of that particular bent, no water sports either. I will not shave my pussy, no fistfucking and absolutely no coming in my face. I get $2000 a day and I do not work without a contract.

Roar

Reunion After Years Apart in Africa

Jerry It'll sure be great seeing him after three years!

Melanie Yeah! I couldn't believe how fast he split for Africa after he got his grant, and the zoo let him take the little cubs he raised.

John You'd think he'd take the kids he raised!

[chuckles]

Body Double

Desire and Observation in a Tense Encounter

Jake Scully I like to watch.

Holly Body Makes you hot, doesn't it?

Jake Scully Yeah.

Holly Body Makes me hot too. Why don't you come over here and I'll show you how hot?

Pacific Heights

Balancing Investment and Homeownership Concerns

Drake Goodman You have to remember this is an investment, Patty. You can't afford to do everything at once.

[as they are house painting]

Patty Palmer It's not just an investment - it's our home.

Working Girl

Office Banter Among Colleagues

Cynthia Can I get ya anything, Mr. Trainer? Coffee? Tea? Me?

Tess McGill Isn't she a riot. That'll be all, Cynthia.

[to Jack]

Born Yesterday

Billie Dawn on Harry's Rudeness

Billie Dawn You know what your problem is, Harry? You're not just rude, you're......"flagrant" about it!

[''pulls out a pocket dictionary and looks up a word'']

Working Girl

Navigating Workplace Relationships and Social Dynamics

Katharine Parker Ugh! What a slob.

Tess McGill You were so smooth with him. I probably would have...

Katharine Parker Never burn bridges. Today's junior prick, tomorrow's senior partner. So, how do you think the party's going?

Tess McGill Pretty well, I think. Should I stop serving now?

Katherine Parker Better make one more round.

Tess McGill Right.

Katharine Parker I'd love to help you but... we can't busy the quarterback with passing out the Gatorade.

Pacific Heights

Investment Over Emotion in Property Selling

Amy Patty?

Patty Palmer Yeah?

Amy Do you mind if I ask you why you're selling? I mean, you've done so much to this place. You've obviously put your heart in it.

Patty Palmer No, not really. It was just an investment.

Shining Through

Civilized Conversations Amidst War Tensions

Ed Leland You can come to work for me while I'm here, I can always use a good secretary.

[seeing Linda for the first time in six months after their passionate affair, and he has come strolling in with a stunning burnette]

Linda Voss This is all so civilized, Edward. That's what you like isn't, it? Civilized people, polite ladies with pedigrees who look good at the opera, and never make you laugh too hard, and never make you feel too much. I've had a lot of time to think about this and don't tell me it's the war, when I've been waiting for six months to hear whether you're dead or alive and you waltz into a nightclub.

Ed Leland Linda, I came in last night and I was going to call you.

Linda Voss Oh, go to hell.

Linda Voss Careful, Ed. You might have to admit you know me.

Ed Leland Linda, it is the war.

Linda Voss You're so noble, Ed.

Ed Leland Did I promise you something? If I did, I'd like to know.

Army SSG in Canteen Excuse me, sir. I thought the young lady might like to dance.

Ed Leland The lady is busy.

Linda Voss I'd love to dance.

Ed Leland I'm cutting in.

Linda Voss Don't let him.

Army SSG in Canteen Excuse me, sir. But I don't think the young lady wants to dance with you.

Ed Leland Don't try it, or I'll leave here with your Adam's Apple in my pocket.

Linda Voss What do you want from me?

Ed Leland I want you to stop feeling sorry for yourself.

Linda Voss No, you want me to stop feeling, like you... You didn't love me, didn't you? I could have been wrong.

Ed Leland You weren't.

Linda Voss Well then. How do you stop, or want to?

Working Girl

Confronting Workplace Dynamics and Power Imbalance

Personnel Director Tess, Tess, Tess...

Tess McGill I know.

Personnel Director You won't get anywhere by calling your boss a pimp.

Tess McGill Well, he is.

Memorable Quotes from Melanie Griffith