KennyDo you think I can really do this?
Kenny Phillips can do anything he wants to.
A character in Press Gang
Played by Lee Ross
Press Gang · 180 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Press Gang: in 61 of its 180 quotes
Most scenes with: Lynda (26), Sam (13), Colin (7)
KennyDo you think I can really do this?
Kenny Phillips can do anything he wants to.
KennyI think I'm going to enjoy being grown up.
You were never anything else.
KennyI have faith in human nature.
Well, you don't get out much.
Why do you always assume I'm incapable of handling anything technical?
KennyI find it saves time.
Can I dock someone's pay?
KennyOn your birthday. If you've been good.
KennyWhy, it’s Cinderella back from the ball. So how was Prince Charming?
Stow it, Buttons!
KennyFair enough, boss. Actually, I’ve always thought of you more as the wicked queen from Snow White.
This is lying, Kenny. I haven't dropped dead, either.
KennyWell, it could take you this long to stop talking.
Spike [answering the phone]: Spike Thomson, advice line for the love-lorn.
KennyI’ve just met someone I really like. Is it too soon to steal her passport?
You know about that?
KennySpike, it’s Kenny.
KennyDo you realise, if it wasn’t for a coincidence of floorboard repair and post fifty odd years ago, I wouldn’t exist? I just find that weird. Scary. My whole life is the result of some dumb mistake. I feel like I’m not supposed to be here. Is that sounding, like, really dumb and stupid?
Yes. Come on, let’s get some more coffees and see who we can fire from graphics.
KennyWell, I’m sorry if my problems are not providing enough entertainment for you, Lynda!
Oh, don’t be like that, Kenny. They usually do.
KennyI want to discuss this.
Kenny, what's the point? You'll only start going on about philosophy and destiny and the meaning of life. I hate those. [To the waitress] Actually, forget the biscuits, he's putting on weight.
KennyTry and understand. I want to discuss a problem I am having with my closest friend.
Haven't you got any other problems?
KennySpecifically, the problem I have concerning the letter.
But I don't like that one!
Kenny [to the waitress]: I am not putting on weight, I will have those biscuits, thank you.
Lynda [to the waitress]: Just the one, though.
KennyLook, let me put it another way -.
A really different way?
KennyRemember that time I kept getting a wrong number? I was trying to phone my aunt.
Oh, right, yeah. The girl in Dublin.” [To the waitress] He fell in love with a wrong number!
KennyLook, I really clicked with that girl. Now, suppose I had actually found out her number, and we’d met up? It’s possible, I’m only saying possible, that we could have ended up some day together. Married, with kids, or whatever.
Some people get over a wrong number faster than this.
KennyThat's not the point I'm making. Now just think of all the future yet unborn whose existence could depend on something as dumb as a wrong number.
Lynda [to the waitress]: Actually, forget the coffees, I'm worried about his blood pressure, too.
Lynda [to Kenny, on the other side of the door]: I'm making a few concessions here - just a few conditions under which I'm prepared to discuss your problem.
KennyOkay, let's hear them.
I can't come in?
KennyConditions?
I got them typed up. [She passes paper through the letter-box]
KennyFifteen, Lynda? What I had in mind was a more personal, sincere apology.
I told you. It’s in your in-tray.
Kenny [opening the door]: Why do you have absolutely no conception of the responsibilities of friendship?
Oh, that's nice, the same day I send you a memo.
KennyI just don’t understand why it’s so difficult to discuss a problem with my best friend.
And I don’t see why it has to be that particular problem. You’ve got hundreds.
KennyWhat do you mean, I've got hundreds?
Oh, come on, Kenny, you're a complete neurotic!
KennyI'm a complete neurotic? Well, let's just take a little look at who's talking here!
What do you mean by that?
KennyWell, no offence, Lynda, but let's be honest. You're a selfish, paranoic, maladjusted, psychotic, complete bitch!
What came after maladjusted? I'm considering a tattoo.
KennyI'm sorry, too, boss.
KennyI hate to interrupt this, but you've got a budget meeting with Kerr.
This is flirt time with Spike - top of the page.
Kenny [checking the diary]: I stand corrected.
KennyIs this the arm off a Garfield?
So I've got a temper. Colin, where are the last two finance reports?
Er, I'm not going to lie to you Lynda, I stole them.
For what reason did you steal them?
I didn't want you going to the budget meeting without me kid. I hate seeing you out of your depth.
What?
It pains me to say this about my own editor Lynda, but on occasion I have noticed a certain bluntness about your negotiating techniques. Specifically: don't throw the ashtray.
Lynda [on being held hostage by a gunman]: Kenny, I want you to get up and walk out of here.
Don't.
KennyWell, look, can you two maybe come to some kind of agreement on this?
KennyIf I get killed doing this, you're going to feel really guilty.
Why would I? You won't be there to tell me to.
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