Thirtysomething (TV Series)
Success (1989)
Melanie Mayron: Melissa Steadman
Quotes
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Melissa Steadman : [bumping into Michael and Elliot] Where you guys going?
Michael Steadman : Oh, you don't wanna know. The bank.
Melissa Steadman : Oh, what, is this, like, really a problem you're having?
Michael Steadman : No, no, no. We just, you know, we like to look at all the money we don't have.
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Hope Murdoch Steadman : So, has Michael said anything to you?
Melissa Steadman : On any particular topic?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Never mind.
Melissa Steadman : What? Never mind what?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Oh, it's... oh, there's something happening with the business, and I figure it's probably bad 'cause he hasn't been complaining about it.
Melissa Steadman : What, Elliot's leaving for clown school?
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Melissa Steadman : [learning of an offer to photograph Carly Simon] You really think I can do this?
Russell Weller : No, but they do.
Melissa Steadman : And that's what counts!
[dancing around and singing]
Melissa Steadman : Oh, yippie yi oh ki yay, galloping all the way. You have to promise me, if I mess it up, you'll tell me.
Russell Weller : How will I know if you're messing it up? I don't know anything about this.
Melissa Steadman : Neither do I!
Russell Weller : But they do, and they love your work.
Melissa Steadman : What do they know? They're record producers. It's not like Edward Steichen likes my work.
Russell Weller : Edward Steichen is dead.
Melissa Steadman : Russell, how can I take a picture of her? I take pictures of old Jewish ladies and pieces of fruit.
Russell Weller : And it really pays well.
Melissa Steadman : They're gonna pay me? You mean I don't have to pay them?
Russell Weller : You could pay me.
Melissa Steadman : Is it, like, a lot we're talking about here?
[he gives a non-commital noise]
Melissa Steadman : A real lot?
[he makes the noise again]
Melissa Steadman : An enormous lot?
Russell Weller : I don't think we can know that yet.
Melissa Steadman : Like, four figures lot?
Russell Weller : Well.
Melissa Steadman : Five figures.
Russell Weller : How much do you think she makes?
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Ellyn Warren : Get out of here. Get out of here.
Melissa Steadman : I'm telling you.
Ellyn Warren : You're not.
Melissa Steadman : I am.
Ellyn Warren : You can't.
Melissa Steadman : I know I can't, but I am. Russell's having lunch with her people, then they're going to call my people with the final word.
Ellyn Warren : Your people?
Melissa Steadman : Me.
Ellyn Warren : Carly Simon? But people don't meet Carly Simon unless they live on Martha's Vineyard.
Melissa Steadman : I'm just taking her picture. I'm not going on tour with her.