Thirtysomething (TV Series)
Success (1989)
Mel Harris: Hope Murdoch Steadman
Quotes
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Hope Murdoch Steadman : You had the meeting. I thought it was this afternoon. You had the meeting? How bad?
Michael Steadman : We're out of business.
Elliot Weston : We are not.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Well, what happened? Tell me.
Michael Steadman : You want the condensed version or do you want the full half-hour of patronizing crap we had to sit and swallow and not even get a chance to reply to, let alone convince them... ha, convince them?
[sarcastic]
Michael Steadman : That was a great idea, Elliot.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : [giving him a comforting hug] Oh, honey, I'm sorry.
Michael Steadman : [still tender from a basketball injury] Oh, uh...
Elliot Weston : Can I get one of those?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : No.
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Michael Steadman : Before Motherland, we were barely getting by. We borrowed money every month to make the payroll, and then in the span of one month, we hired designers, we finished the space, we bought all this equipment because we thought it was going to be cheaper than leasing it...
Elliot Weston : Because it was cheaper than leasing it.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : But you have other accounts.
Michael Steadman : Fewer than we had before. We, uh, actually blew off two accounts to make time for Motherland.
Elliot Weston : We will get them back.
Michael Steadman : And what do we do for payroll and rent until then?
Elliot Weston : We will borrow like we used to.
Michael Steadman : Oh, Elliot.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Well, you just cut back until you get another account. You could move.
Michael Steadman : And what do we do with the lease?
Elliot Weston : Sublet it.
Michael Steadman : Sublet it? Then we are in the commercial real-estate business, Elliot. That's great.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Michael, Michael, Michael, things will work out. They always do. I mean, you guys are really good.
Michael Steadman : I'm good. He's dead weight.
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Michael Steadman : Hello.
[meaning the kids]
Michael Steadman : I told them to burn the house down so we could collect insurance.
Nancy Krieger Weston : Well, that should be no problem.
Michael Steadman : What do you care? You have no visible means of support anyway.
[Hope punches him in the arm, hard]
Michael Steadman : Ow! Oh. Hope, I keep telling you... ow.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Oh, why do you keep playing these stupid games when you always come home with some arcane injury? When are you gonna admit that you're old?
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Hope Murdoch Steadman : So, has Michael said anything to you?
Melissa Steadman : On any particular topic?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Never mind.
Melissa Steadman : What? Never mind what?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Oh, it's... oh, there's something happening with the business, and I figure it's probably bad 'cause he hasn't been complaining about it.
Melissa Steadman : What, Elliot's leaving for clown school?
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Hope Murdoch Steadman : So, you talk to your cousin today?
Michael Steadman : No, I was out of the office. Why?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Well, apparently she's going to this huge party for Ms. Simon and can invite anybody she wants, only she basically lied and didn't want us to know.
Michael Steadman : Fine, she's embarrassed by us.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : That's what Ellyn says.
Michael Steadman : It's all right. I'm embarrassed by us, too.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Michael.
Michael Steadman : Sorry.
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Hope Murdoch Steadman : Who's the guy with Elliot?
Michael Steadman : The Dark Lord of Mordor, where the shadows lie. Drentell. The "D" in D.A.A. Somewhere in his fevered brain, Elliot still thinks he can get him to help us.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : What's he doing here?
Michael Steadman : Hmm. Don't ask.
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Nancy Krieger Weston : [learning he and Michael are on the verge of bankruptcy] I can't believe Elliot didn't tell me about this. I am killing him.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : I am not panicking. My new baby will not go hungry. The bank will not take away my credit cards.