Dallas (TV Series)

Executive Wife (1981)

Linda Gray: Sue Ellen Ewing

Quotes 

• Sue Ellen Ewing : [comes down the stairs in bathing suit, on her way to the pool]  Well, you're keeping banking hours.

  Bobby Ewing : No, I just thought I'd get home before dinner one time this week.

  Sue Ellen Ewing : Well, it's difficult running a company like Ewing Oil. As J.R. knows. You can't really call your soul your own.

  Bobby Ewing : I think I can, Sue Ellen. Besides, it's not my soul I'm worried about. It's the company.

  Sue Ellen Ewing : Really? What's the problem?

  Bobby Ewing : No problems. I just wanna make sure Ewing Oil plays by the rules and nobody gets hurt.

  Sue Ellen Ewing : Rules. J.R. always says that when it comes to power, there are no rules.

  Bobby Ewing : Well, that's where my brother and I part company.

  [turns away] 

  Bobby Ewing : I don't want power for power's sake.

  Sue Ellen Ewing : Don't worry about It, Bobby. You'll never get it.

  Bobby Ewing : And what makes you so sure, Sue Ellen?

  Sue Ellen Ewing : It's all a game, Bobby. You have to love it to play it well.

  Bobby Ewing : You're making a study of power, are you?

  Sue Ellen Ewing : Don't you forget who I've been married to for the last ten years. He understands power. He controls and manipulates. He makes people afraid. He's a natural-born fighter... the best.

  Bobby Ewing : [swallows]  And me?

  Sue Ellen Ewing : [pitying smile]  You're J.R.'s little brother.

  [smirks at him, walks away]