The Nanny (TV Series)
Smoke Gets in Your Lies (1993)
Charles Shaughnessy: Maxwell Sheffield
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Quotes
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Maxwell Sheffield : [rushing off to work, Brighton's repeating him] Brighton, don't be so smart,
[Gracie has her mouth stuffed with an orange piece]
Maxwell Sheffield : Gracie dear, take smaller bites, and Maggie
[Maggie has a towel over her head for an acne treatment]
Maxwell Sheffield : try to be a bit more outgoing.
[leaves]
Brighton Sheffield : Well, he's got my vote for Father of the Year.
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Maxwell Sheffield : Brighton was caught smoking.
Yetta Rosenberg : Smoking? Bad!
Brighton Sheffield : But you smoke.
Yetta Rosenberg : Me it doesn't effect, I'm like a horse. But you know what smoking can do to you? Come, let's meet Ethel, phlegm in a hair net!
[drags Brighton off]
Brighton Sheffield : Oh no, not Ethel! Not Ethel!
[to Maxwell and Fran]
Brighton Sheffield : I swear I'll never smoke again! Oh God!
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Maxwell Sheffield : What have you got to say in your defense?
Brighton Sheffield : I didn't inhale.
Maxwell Sheffield : That is the most pathetically lame excuse in the world.
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Maxwell Sheffield : I need a Broadway star with huge stage presence who's instantly recognizable to the entire country.
C.C. Babcock : [Carol Channing enters] Oh my god!
Carol Channing : [Starting to sing "Hello Dolly!"] Hello...
Maxwell Sheffield : Next!
Carol Channing : [to Fran] He's tough.
Fran Fine : You're telling me!
Carol Channing : Break a leg, honey... His.
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Fran Fine : Oh, I could just cut my tongue out. So if you wanna fire me, do it now.
Maxwell Sheffield : No, I'm not gonna fire you. Although that offer to cut out your tongue might have some merit...
[pause]
Maxwell Sheffield : Why, if you told Brighton to jump off London Bridge God... I'm beginning to sound just like my...
Fran Fine : I know! Don't you hate when that happens?
