Work Is a Four Letter Word (1968)

David Warner: Valentine Brose

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• [after getting thrown out of a church by the pastor] 

  Valentine Brose : I'm gonna tell God about you.

• Valentine Brose : Warm and dark and steamy? I'd like to take this job, Betty. Honestly, I would. We could settle down and grow things together. Just you, and me, and the mushrooms.

• Valentine Brose : You can't come in here.

  Mr. Price : I beg your pardon?

  Valentine Brose : This is the managing director's office.

  Mr. Price : I am the managing director.

  Valentine Brose : Well, you won't hold that job down long if you let strange men come wandering in and out of your office. Excuse me.

  [leaves] 

• Mr. Price : Are you some kind of a nit?

  Valentine Brose : Uh, yes, I think so, but you've nothing to worry about.

• Mr. Price : That says "mushrooms" on those boxes.

  Valentine Brose : Yeah, doesn't it?

  Mr. Price : So they're mushrooms, are they?

  Valentine Brose : Um... no. That's the maker's name. Capital letters. Capital M, capital U, Shrooms. Mervin Ulrich Shrooms, sea merchant.

• Mr. Price : This is a fully automated power station, Brose. It doesn't need human beings. It doesn't want them. It only tolerates them so long as they confine themselves to harmless and unnecessary functions such as sweeping out restrooms that do not require sweeping out. Any other sort of activity and you know what will happen to you, Brose?

  Valentine Brose : I do not know what will happen to me, Brose.

  Mr. Price : It will chew you up and spit you out like a used plastic bag.

• Mr. Price : You seem to have been giving a bit of trouble, Brose.

  Valentine Brose : I wouldn't say that.

  Mr. Price : You wouldn't?

  Valentine Brose : It would be silly of me, wouldn't it?

  Mr. Price : What would?

  Valentine Brose : To say that. I mean if I said that...

  Mr. Price : Brose... I don't want any of your funny stuff, Brose. You've managed to reduce Mrs. Murray to a jelly but you're wasting your time trying that on with me.

  Valentine Brose : I am?

  Valentine Brose : You are. I want you to listen to me. She's not a game.

• Valentine Brose : [newly married, said to the minister who wouldn't marry Betty and him]  You haven't got a monopoly in marrying people, you know.

• Betty Dorrick : Couldn't you take that nose off now?

  Valentine Brose : It gives me a feeling of confidence. I wouldn't feel married without this nose.

• Valentine Brose : [after sliding into a window of a room with an executive meeting in progress]  Excuse me. It's alright, I do work here.