Cheers (TV Series)

Norm's First Hurrah (1987)

George Wendt: Norm Peterson

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Quotes 

• Woody Boyd : Hey, Mister Peterson, what do you say to a cold one?

  Norm Peterson : See you later, Vera. I'll be at Cheers.

• Norm Peterson : I'm going to pitch it to my supervisor tomorrow, but I tell you, I'm a little nervous about putting my butt on the line.

  Carla Tortelli : How do you think the line feels?

• [after Thompkins steals Norm's proposal and the Board of Directors shoots it down] 

  Diane Chambers : Now, Norman, please. Now don't let this phase you. You have to keep pushing. I know that this idea didn't succeed, but others will.

  Norm Peterson : No no, Diane, a few moments ago, I almost made the biggest mistake of my professional life and it was because I was doing something that just wasn't me. I am not a go-getter, I've never been a go-getter. What's more, I don't even want to be a go-getter. I'm very happy right where I am. I'm tired of all these people saying "Peterson, you gotta push", "You gotta get ahead", "You gotta make that goal." I don't even want to make the goal, Diane. I want to be a bench warmer, OK? The world needs bench warmers. I mean, if there were no bench warmers, what would we have? We'd have... cold benches. A lot of cold benches and the world does not need that, Diane. In this great pageantry of life, Norm Peterson may be a motionless lump, but he's a very damn good one.

  Diane Chambers : Norman, I've never seen you so impassioned.

  Norm Peterson : That's because I believe in this, Diane. Look, Norm Peterson is totally happy being an anonymous cog in the gigantic machinery of this firm.