Working Girl – Movie Quotes

You can bend the rules upstairs, but not while you're trying to get there. And someone like me can't get there without bending the rules.

You're like one of those crazed cops. The kind nobody wants to ride with, whose partners all end up dead or crazy.

— Tess, this is business. Let's just bury the hatchet, OK?
— You know where you can bury your hatchet? Now get your bony ass out of my sight.

You don't get ahead in this world by calling your boss a pimp.

— How'd you get this scar?
— Some guy pulled a knife in Detroit.
— Really?
— No. No. I was 19 and I thought it'd be cool to have a pierced ear. My girlfriend stuck the needle through and I fainted and hit my chin on the toilet.
— Have you been telling that story ever since?
— You're the only one who knows the true story.
— Except the girlfriend.
— I had her disappear. It's too bad. Nice girl. Real shame.

— These things are usually so boring.
— I wouldn't know.
— Power to the people.
— The little people.

I've cleared the month of June. And I am, after all, me.

— Did you happen to see this?
— What is it?
— It's an outline of your idea for a Trask radio acquisition. I was planning to send it over to Jack Trainer. I thought I'd give your idea one last go-round. It just occurs to me, looking at it, that it reads as though it were my idea. Jack got burned once. He was accused of stealing a plan for taking a company private. He's very sticky about the ethics of reviewing other people's strategies. He wouldn't do it if it was from a colleague, and I couldn't say it was a secretary's notion.

— Go ahead and laugh. He wants us to meet with his people first thing Monday.
— Oren Trask? The man who said: «What if we sliced the bread before we sold it?»

I consider us a team, and as such we have a uniform. Simple, elegant, impeccable.

I read a lot of things. You never know where the big ideas could come from.