Blair Litton [to Jane]
Except for socially, you're my role model.
Aaron Altman
Albert Brooks · 8 quotes
Jane Craig
Holly Hunter · 5 quotes
Tom Grunick
William Hurt · 4 quotes
Most scenes together: Aaron Altman & Jane Craig (2), Aaron Altman & Tom Grunick (2), Jane Craig & Tom Grunick (2)
Broadcast News quotes
Blair Litton And in the middle of all this, I started to think about the one thing that makes me feel really good and makes immediate sense... and it's you.
Oh, Bubba.
I'm going to stop right now. Except that I would give anything if you were two people, so that I could call up the one who's my friend and tell her about the one that I like so much!
I know you care about him. I've never seen you like this about anyone, so please don't take it wrong when I tell you that I believe that Tom, while a very nice guy, is the Devil.
This isn't friendship.
What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.
The pointers were great, I'll study the tape.
Just remember that you're not just reading the news, you're narrating it. Everybody has to sell a little. You're selling them this idea of you, you know, you're sort of saying, trust me I'm, um, credible. So when you feel yourself just reading, stop! Start selling a little.
Blair Litton Oh, you think anyone who's proud of the work we do is an ass-kisser.
No, I think anyone who puckers up their lips and presses it against their boss' buttocks and then smooches is an ass-kisser.
Blair Litton My gosh... and for a while there I was attracted to you.
Well, wait a minute, that changes everything!
So you like me, huh?
I like you as much as I can like anyone who thinks I'm an asshole.
Paul Moore
[after firing one of his workers]
Now, if there's anything I can do for you...
Employee
Well, I certainly hope you'll die soon.
Paul Moore
It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room.
No. It's awful.
What do you do when your real life exceeds your dreams?
Keep it to yourself.
You're an amazing woman - what a feeling having you inside my head!
It's like - indescribable - you knew just when to feed me the next line, you knew the m... second before I needed it. There was like, a rhythm we got into - it was like - great sex!
[he pulls her toward him while she laughs]
[to Jane]
And if things had gone differently for me tonight then I probably wouldn't be saying any of this. I grant you everything. But give me this: he personifies everything that you've been fighting against. And I'm in love with you. How do you like that? I buried the lede.
[to Jane]
I think we have the kind of friendship where if I were the devil, you'd be the only one I would tell.
Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive? If "needy" were a turn-on?