The Powers That Be (TV Series)

I'm Your Dummy (1992)

Peter MacNicol: Bradley Grist

Quotes 

• [arriving at the office, taking off his coat] 

  Bradley Grist : Y'hear that noise? That click, click, click, click. That's the sound the pulley makes as the casket descends. It's a toss in the dirt, hang up the shovels, say 'Hi' to the Big Sleep. 'Cause it's over. We're dead, dying, deadness, dead.

• Bradley Grist : What would be the worst news in the world you could hear right now?

  Jordan Miller : The rabbit died.

• Sophie Lipkin : What sort of an act is it that you do?

  Sen. William Franklin Powers : [with his teeth firmly clenched]  Ventriloquism.

  Jordan Miller : But, maybe you wanna show them how versatile you are. Try something new, something fresh, with a cutting edge.

  Bradley Grist : [with mounting desperation]  Anything, Sir, I'm personally begging you. Please change the act. Ab' - how 'bout - how 'bout flaming batons? An accordion. I think you'd be better off playing two trombones with a duck in your pants.

  Sen. William Franklin Powers : I can't. Ann Richards did that last year.