5th most-quoted character in Tootsie (1982): in 4 of its 34 quotes
Most scenes with: Michael Dorsey (4)
Scenes with George
4 scenes
George Where do you come off sending me your roommate's play for you to star in? I'm your agent, not your mother! I'm not supposed to find plays for you to star in - I'm supposed to field offers! And that's what I do!
'Field offers?' Who told you that, the Agent Fairy? That was a significant piece of work - I could've been terrific in that part.
George Michael, nobody's gonna do that play.
George Because it's a downer, that's why. Because nobody wants to produce a play about a couple that moved back to Love Canal.
But that actually happened!
George WHO GIVES A SHIT? Nobody wants to pay twenty dollars to watch people living next to chemical waste! They can see that in New Jersey!
Are you saying that nobody in New York will work with me?
George No, no, that's too limited... nobody in Hollywood wants to work with you either. I can't even send you up for a commercial. You played a tomato for 30 seconds - they went a half a day over schedule because you wouldn't sit down.
George YOU WERE A TOMATO. A tomato doesn't have logic. A tomato can't move.
That's what I said. So if he can't move, how's he gonna sit down, George? I was a stand-up tomato: a juicy, sexy, beefsteak tomato. Nobody does vegetables like me. I did an evening of vegetables off-Broadway. I did the best tomato, the best cucumber... I did an endive salad that knocked the critics on their ass.
George You are psychotic!
No, I'm not, I'm employed.
You should have seen the look on her face when she thought I was a lesbian.
George "Lesbian"? You just said gay.
No, no, no - SANDY thinks I'm gay, JULIE thinks I'm a lesbian.
George I thought Dorothy was supposed to be straight?
Dorothy IS straight. Tonight Les, the sweetest, nicest man in the world asked me to marry him.
George A guy named Les wants YOU to marry him?
No, no, no - he wants to marry Dorothy.
George Does he know she's a lesbian?
George I know that, does HE know that?
George That, er, I... I don't know.
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