Cheers (TV Series)

Personal Business (1983)

Ted Danson: Sam Malone

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• Diane Chambers : I propose that you and I abstain from any sort of physical contact for a period of one month. Strictly business for one month. I think that's the only way that each of us can regain our self respect.

  Sam Malone : I think that's a very good idea. It would help me out a lot.

  Diane Chambers : Fine. One month it is. Mr. Malone.

  Sam Malone : [as Sam and Diane shake hands]  Miss Chambers.

  Sam Malone : [as Diane is about to walk out of the room]  Oh, there is just one more thing. I think... Please have a seat. I think my self respect bounces back a little quicker than you expect. I think two weeks of strictly business, and I'd be back in peak shape. You know, maybe, if I concentrate, one week.

  Diane Chambers : Well, I believe that my recuperative powers are even greater than yours. A day would be fine with me.

  Sam Malone : You know, I think the important thing here is we both know in our minds that we could stop. I think that an hour would certainly prove that.

  Diane Chambers : Well, from that argument, it follows that fifteen minutes would be adequate.

  Sam Malone : [looking at his watch]  I believe that's just enough time to get back to my place.

  Diane Chambers : Let's hurry.

  [Sam and Diane rush out of the room together] 

• Sam Malone : [after Diane asks him to give a reference to her next employer]  I will tell him you are the best cocktail waitress I have ever seen in my entire life. And then I'll tell him I'd like to sell him some land in Florida that I own.

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : No kidding! Where is it? We might be neighbors.