Rudy Vallee: Jasper B. Biggley
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J. B. Biggley : I know blood is thicker than water, but Bud Frump is thicker than anything. I'll promote him when I'm ready. Now, you listen to me, Gertrude. The next time Bud complains to his mother, and she calls you, and you call me, you're all fired. Damn it.
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Gertrude Biggley : What's nepotism?
J. B. Biggley : That's when your nephew's a damn poop!
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J. B. Biggley : I realize that I'm the president of this company, the man that's responsible for everything that goes on here. So, I want to state, right now, that anything that happened is not my fault.
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J. B. Biggley : I like the way you thinch, Fink.
[Long pause]
J. Pierpont Finch : That's "think, Finch."
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Miss Jones : Your wife is on line 2, Mr. Biggley.
J. B. Biggley : Tell her I'm busy, tell her I'm in a meeting, tell her I'm out, damnit, put her on!
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Wally Womper : You never told me you hired your nephew.
J. B. Biggley : I never showed him any favoritism; in fact, I hate him.
Wally Womper : But you love his ideas.
J. B. Biggley : No. When he first told me the idea, told him it was a lousy idea. When Finch brought it to me, I still said it was a lousy idea. In fact, I told Finch it was a lousy idea.
Wally Womper : Why did you buy it?
J. B. Biggley : Seemed like a good idea.
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J. Pierpont Finch : Look, even though we're all part of the cold, corporate set-up, deep down under our skins there's flesh and blood. We're all brothers.
J. B. Biggley : But, some of us are uncles.
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J. B. Biggley : Do you know who I am?
J. Pierpont Finch : No, sir.
J. B. Biggley : I'm J. B. Biggley, the President of this company, that's who I am. In fact, that's who the hell I am.
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J. B. Biggley : Wally, who's going to be the new chairman of the board, as if I didn't know?
Bud Frump : I'll kill myself!
Wally Womper : Ponty, it's your baby now.
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J. B. Biggley : Why don't you go home?
Bud Frump : I'm waiting for the elevator.
J. B. Biggley : Why don't you walk down?
Bud Frump : It's 30 floors.
J. B. Biggley : Why don't you jump?
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Hedy LaRue : I gave up a wonderful job. Head cigarette girl at the Copa.
J. B. Biggley : I thought you hated all those men staring at you, making advances.
Hedy LaRue : Well, it's no different here in big business. At least at the Copa, when I got pinched, I got tipped. Around here, a girl can't even bend down to pick up a pencil with confidence.
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J. B. Biggley : Damn, damn, coal-burning, dithering, ding, ding, ding. Ding, ding, ding, ding...
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J. Pierpont Finch : Sir, if you had a man with ideas.
J. B. Biggley : Ideas? That's what I look for. I keep hiring a lot of fellows who are supposed to have brilliant ideas, but not one of them will ever do what I tell him.
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J. B. Biggley : Ovington, I'm not a bigot. I've hired men from all colleges. Tigers, Bulldogs, Trojans, Bears, Gophers, Badgers; but, never, never a Chipmunk!
