The Secret of My Success (1987)
John Pankow: Fred Melrose
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Quotes
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Vera Prescott : Why haven't I met you before?
Fred Melrose : Maybe you ain't been hangin' out in the mailroom.
Vera Prescott : Oooh, the "male room." I like that sound!
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Brantley Foster : [reading mail while sorting] Some of this stuff doesn't make any sense. They send requisitions through two departments to get procurements for a third. What kind of thinking is that?
Fred Melrose : That's suit thinking. Something happens to a man when he puts on a necktie. Cuts off all the oxygen to his brain.
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Fred Melrose : Hey, you look like death on a cracker, man. What happened to you?
Brantley Foster : Well, I was chased by a 200 pound dog with a mouth as big as my head. And that was the best thing that happened last night.
Fred Melrose : What was the worst thing?
Brantley Foster : Got laid.
Fred Melrose : Not sure you got your priorities straight, Brantley.
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Fred Melrose : Something happens to a man when he puts on a necktie. It cuts off all the circulation to his brain.
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[Brantley said "good morning" to an executive]
Fred Melrose : Not the suits, man! You never consort with the suits unless they consort with you first.
Brantley Foster : Wait a minute, that's ridiculous! He's a person, I'm a person. I can't say hello to him?
Fred Melrose : He's not a person, he's a suit! You're mailroom. No consorting.
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Brantley Foster : Whoa, whoa, listen, I'm going to need your help, both of you.
Fred Melrose : Is it something I could get fired for?
Brantley Foster : Absolutely.
Fred Melrose : I like it!
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[Brantley is carrying a briefcase into the mailroom]
Fred Melrose : What's in there?
Brantley Foster : My lunch.
Fred Melrose : Your lunch? In a briefcase?
Brantley Foster : Yeah. I ran out of brown bags.