Head Office (1985)

Wallace Shawn: Mike Hoover

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• [watching Helmes helicopter above] 

  Al Kennedy : There goes Helmes now. I'm fired! I'm gone, I'm finished!

  Mike Hoover : Al, you're imagining things.

  Al Kennedy : At Friday's meeting with Helmes, he didn't make eye contact with me once. It's a sign, I'm fucking dead in this company!

  Mike Hoover : You're crazy!

  Al Kennedy : Crazy?

  Mike Hoover : No, paranoid!

  Al Kennedy : Paranoid? You got your goddamn bag of pecans this week from Helmes, I didn't get any bag of...

  Mike Hoover : But what does that have to do with...

  Al Kennedy : I'm dead in this company!

• Al Kennedy : No one trusts me, Mike.

  Mike Hoover : Oh, Al, trust me, they trust ya.

  Al Kennedy : I'm too honest for them.

  Mike Hoover : You're not that honest.

  Al Kennedy : Everyone thinks I'm an asshole!

  Mike Hoover : No, not everyone!

  Al Kennedy : Name one person who hasn't called me an asshole. Just one.

  Mike Hoover : Steadman.

  Al Kennedy : Steadman? That asshole? Name someone with clout!

  Mike Hoover : Al, pull yourself together!

  Al Kennedy : Mike, don't shit me. Don't shit a dead man. You're looking at a insect husk, a whacked up, burned out body shell. A dead person!

  Mike Hoover : Al, it's only Monday. You're talkin' like it's already Friday!