The Industry (1998–2002)

Rick Mercer: Richard Strong

Quotes 

• Richard Strong : [first line of the series]  All my life I wanted to make movies. A good movie can change lives. A great movie can change the world. But television, it's different. It's not about making a difference. Television's about making one thing only. Money. I work in television; I can get behind anything.

• [repeated line] 

  Richard Strong : I think that went well.

• Richard Strong : This is not good.

• Richard Strong : "The truth will set you free", what is that about? "The truth will set you free"? Well, not if ya did it.

• Victor : How could you do this to me? How could you say that the Bionic Woman is fundamentally flawed?

  Richard Strong : Okay, she's a bionic woman, I get that. But she has that bionic ear.

  Victor : Yeah, super hearing!

  Richard Strong : But wouldn't that mean that she'd be hearing everything at once? Wouldn't she just go crazy?

  Victor : She does flip her hair out of the way.

  Richard Strong : Oh, so the hair makes all the difference?

  Victor : She has VERY THICK HAIR!

  Richard Strong : Now you're just being unreasonable.

• Moses Znaimer : So why did you agree to come here?

  Richard Strong : I was... curious.

  Moses Znaimer : Curious?

  Richard Strong : About whether you were going to have me killed.

  Moses Znaimer : Now now, Richard, killing is so 1980s.

• Richard Strong : Actually, I'm a socialist.

  Alan Roy : You are not a socialist.

  Richard Strong : How do you know I'm not a socialist?

  Alan Roy : You drive a Lexus.

  Richard Strong : It's a lease.

• Victor : Wanda says he has trouble letting go.

  Richard Strong : Of his feelings?

  Victor : Of small appliances.

• Victor : Wanda knows what she's doing! I think she's a savant.

  Richard Strong : Well, she sure dresses like one.