Charles Prentiss quotes from Absolute Power

Charles

[To Alison] Look, if you’re going to speak too, you’re going to make this take a lot longer.

Charles

Humour, where would we be without it? In Germany, probably.

Charles

At Prentiss-McCabe we care deeply about the little people. Unless they get in our way; then we hurt them.

Charles

Television is not for watching; it's for being on.

Charles

It'd be so much easier if politics were like software: they could just call it Bollocks 1, Bollocks 1.1, Bollocks XP Home Edition...

Charles

I love the smell of a career burning in the morning.

Charles

Besides, Priestley’s new office is so far away from the centre of power that if Number Ten got nuked, he’d merely looked tanned.

Charles

[To job applicant] Well, thank you for coming in and being so time-consuming.

Charles

You were going to spend your redundancy money on a pub.

Martin

No, no, no. I was going to spend my redundancy money in a pub.

Charles

Yes, yes, you really are, aren't you?

I like bums on seats.

Charles

I rather like them on bicycles.

Martin

Ah, America, America, Land of the Arse.

Charles

I do so very beg your pardon?

Martin

It's true. They've all got them. Great big enormous ones. It's because they drink Coca Cola out of dustbins.

I want you chaps to do what I believe you call a "product relaunch".

Charles

You want us to relaunch God?

Martin

(reading aloud while typing) "So, in conclusion," erm...

Charles

Martin, it's no good typing "so, in conclusion" at the bottom of a blank screen.

Charles

Labour has just lost one of its safest seats.

Martin

How interesting(!)

Charles

Do I have to explain to you the significance of that?

Martin

You don't have to, Charles, no. Mind you, it might relieve the tedium, if the explanation involved pulling your trousers down and doing your impression of a swingometer.

Charles

Do you happen to remember writing: "Dear Sirs, the reason I have not replied to your letters of the 26th and the 30th is that I couldn't be arsed. Yours in sport, Martin"?

Martin

Well, I may possibly have done. Why?

Charles

Well, because you e-mailed it to the Inland Revenue, who have written back in distressed tones.