Andrea Sachs
[On the phone taking a message]
Okay... Can you please spell 'Gabbana'? [Person on the other end hangs up] I guess not...
3rd most-quoted character in The Devil Wears Prada (2006): in 18 of its 49 quotes
Most scenes with: Nigel (11), Miranda Priestly (6), Emily Charlton (4)
I can't. It's too soon after I've broken up with my boyfriend and ... I have to get up for work early tomorrow ... I've had too much wine, my hearing, visual ... I've run out of excuses.
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And before today you had never heard of me?
Andrea
No.
You have no style or sense of fashion.
Andy
I think that depends on-
No, no, that wasn't a question.
Andrea
I don't think I'll need these. I mean, Miranda hired me. She knows what I look like.
Do you?
Andrea
So, none of the girls here eat anything?
Not since two became the new four and zero became the new two.
Andrea
Well, I'm a six.
Which is the new fourteen.
Emily.... Emily?
But that's not what I asked you, I couldn't have been clearer- There you are Emily, how many times do I have to scream your name?
Andrea
Actually, it's Andy. [pause] My name is Andy... Andrea, but everyone calls me Andy.
Andrea
What kind of skirts do you-
Please bore someone else with your questions. And make sure we have Pier 59 at 8am tomorrow, and remind Jocelyn I need to see a few of those satchels that Mark is doing in the pony, and then tell Simone I'll take Jackie if Maggie isn't available. Did Demarchelier confirm?
Andrea
D-D-Demarchelier?
Demarchelier. Get him on the phone.
Andrea
O-Ok.
And Emily...?
Andrea
Yes?
Andrea
[Andrea is unable to book Miranda a flight home due to a hurricane]
Oh my God, she's going to murder me!
Richard Sachs
What does she want you to do, call the National Guard and have her airlifted out of there?
Andrea
Of course not!...Could I do that?
Andrea
[Seeing Nigel hold up a black evening gown]
I love that! Will that fit me?
A little Crisco and some fishing wire and we'll be in business.
Andrea
My personal life is falling apart.
That's what happens when you start doing well at work. Let me know when your entire life goes up in smoke, then it's time for a promotion.
Andrea
Wish me luck.
No. Shan't.
Andrea
(after Miranda has suddenly opened and worried about the effect public disclosure of her upcoming divorce will have on her daughters)
Is there anything else I can do to help?
Yes. Your job.
Andrea
What if I don't want this?
Don't be silly. Everyone wants this. Everybody wants to be us.
Andrea
Emily, hi. No don't hang up. I've got a favour to ask you.
Andrea
Yeah, the thing is I've got all these clothes from Paris and I don't have anywhere to put them so I was wondering if you could take them off my hands.
Well, it's a huge imposition. Of course I'll have to have them taken in, they'll drown me. But, very well. I suppose I could help you.
Andrea
Thanks Emily. I appreciate it. (Hangs up).
Emily: (Smiling contemplatively and turning to the new girl sitting at Andrea's desk) You have some very large shoes to fill. I hope you realise that.
Who are you?
Andrea
I'm Andy Sachs, I just graduated from Northwestern University—
And what are you doing here?
Andrea
Well, I think I could do a good job as your assistant, and, um... I came to New York to be a journalist, and I sent out letters everywhere, and I finally got a call from Elias Clark and met with Sherry up at Human Resources and- basically, it's this or Auto Universe.
So you don't read Runway.
Andrea
No.
And before today you had never heard of me?
Andrea
No.
And you have no style or sense of fashion.
Andrea
Well, um, I think that depends on what you're …
No, no, that wasn't a question.
Oh God, Andy ... you look so chic.
Andrea
Aw ... Thanks Em! You look so thin!
Do I? Oh, it's for Paris ... I'm on this new diet. Well I don't eat anything. And when I feel like I'm about to faint, I eat a cube of cheese.
Andrea
Well, it's definitely working.
I know, I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight.
You thought I didn't know. I've known what was happening for quite some time. It just took me a little while to find a suitable alternative for Jacqueline, and that James Holt job was just so absurdly overpaid that of course she jumped at it. So I just had to tell Irv that Jacqueline was unavailable. Truth is, no one can do what I do, including her. Any of the other choices would have found that job impossible and the magazine would have suffered. Especially because of the list. The list of designers, photographers, editors, writers, models, all of whom were founded by me, nurtured by me and have promised me they will follow me whenever and if ever I choose to leave Runway. So he reconsidered. But I was very very impressed by how intently you tried to warn me. I never thought I would say this, Andrea, but I really, I see a great deal of myself in you. You can look beyond what people want, and what they need, and you can choose for yourself.
Andrea
I don't think I'm like that. I couldn't do what you did to Nigel, Miranda. I couldn't do something like that.
Hmm. But you already did. To Emily.
Andrea
That's not what I... no, no, that was different. I didn't have a choice.
Oh no, you chose. You chose to get ahead. You want this life, those choices are necessary.
Andrea
But what if this isn't what I want? I mean, what if I don't wanna live the way you live?
Oh, don't be ridiculous, Andrea. Everybody wants this. Everybody wants to be us.
Andrea
Learned a lot. In the end though, I kind of screwed it up.
Editor I called over there for a reference, left word with some snooty girl. Next thing you know, I got a fax from Miranda Priestly herself... saying that of all the assistants she's ever had... you were, by far, her biggest disappointment. And, if I don't hire you, I am an idiot. You must have done something right.
Andrea
Hey Emily! It's Andy. Don't hang up. I have a favor to ask you.
Andrea
You see, I have these clothes from Paris, and I don't have any place to wear them, so I was wondering if you could take them off my hands.
[beat, trying not to smile]
Well, I don't know. It's a huge imposition. I mean I'll have to get them taken in. I mean they'll drown me. But... I suppose I could help you out. I will have Roy pick them up this afternoon.
Andrea
Thanks Em. Good luck!
[Hangs up and smiles] [to Andy's replacement]
You have some very large shoes to fill. I hope you know that.