Board Member 6 Quotes in The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

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Board Member 6 Quotes:

  • [Norville Barnes introduces the "extruded plastic dingus" to the board members]

    Board Member 1: What if you tire before it's done?

    Board Member 2: Does it have rules?

    Board Member 3: Can more than one play?

    Board Member 4: What makes you think it's a game?

    Board Member 3: Is it a game?

    Board Member 5: Will it break?

    Board Member 6: It better break eventually!

    Board Member 2: Is there an object?

    Board Member 1: What if you tire before it's done?

    Board Member 5: Does it come with batteries?

    Board Member 4: We could charge extra for them.

    Board Member 7: Is it safe for toddlers?

    Board Member 3: How can you tell when you're finished?

    Board Member 2: How do you make it stop?

    Board Member 6: Is that a boy's model?

    Board Member 3: Can a parent assemble it?

    Board Member 5: Is there a larger model for the obese?

    Board Member 1: What if you tire before it's done?

    Board Member 8: What the hell is it?

  • Board Member 1: He could have opened the window.

    Board Member 2: Waring Hudsucker never did anything the easy way.

    Board Member 3: (weeping) Why? Why did he do it? Everything was going so well

    Sidney J. Mussburger: What am I, a head shriker. Maybe the man was unhappy?

    Board Member 3: He didn't look unhappy.

    Board Member 4: He didn't look rich.

    Board Member 5: Waring Hudsucker was never an easy man to figure out. He built this company with his bare hands, every step he took was a step up, except of course this last one.

    Sidney J. Mussburger: Sure, sure he was a swell fella, but when the president, chairman of the board and owner of 87% of the company stock drops 44 floors...

    Board Member 6: 45.

    Board Member 7: Counting the mezzanine.

    Sidney J. Mussburger: ...then the company too has a problem. What exactly is the disposition of Waring's stock.

    Board Member 8: Well as you know, Hud left no will and had no family; the company bylaws are quite clear in that event. His entire portfolio will be converted into common stock and be sold over the counter as of the first of the fiscal year following his demise.

    Sidney J. Mussburger: Meaning?

    Board Member 8: Well, meaning simply that Waring stock, and control of the company, will be made available to the public January first.

    Sidney J. Mussburger: Do you mean to say any slob in a smelly tee-shirt will be able to buy Hudsucker stock?

    Board Member 8: The company bylaws are quite clear.

    Board Member 3: My God, you're animals. How can you discuss his stock when the man has just leapt 45 floors?

    Board Member 6: 44.

    Board Member 7: Not counting the mezzanine.

    Sidney J. Mussburger: Quit showboating Addison, the man is gone. The question now is whether we're going to let John Q Public just waltz in here and buy our company.

    Board Member 4: What are you suggesting Sidney? Certainly we can't afford to buy an controlling interest.

    Sidney J. Mussburger: Not while the stock is this strong. How soon before Hud's paper hits the market?

    Board Member 8: January 1st.

    Board Member 2: 30 days.

    Board Member 4: 4 weeks.

    Board Member 5: A month at the most!

    Sidney J. Mussburger: One month; to make the blue chip investment of the century look like a round trip ticket on the titanic.

    Board Member 7: We play up the fact that Hud is dead.

    All: Long live Hud!

    Board Member 4: We depress the stock,

    Board Member 5: To the point where we can buy 50%,

    Board Member 6: 51,

    Board Member 7: Not counting the mezzanine.

    Sidney J. Mussburger: It could work.

    Board Member 3: It should work.

    Board Member 4: It would work.

    Sidney J. Mussburger: It's working already. Waring Hudsucker is abstract art on Madison Avenue. What we need now is a new president who will inspire panic in the stockholder.

    Board Member 6: A puppet.

    Board Member 5: A proxy.

    Board Member 2: A pawn.

    Sidney J. Mussburger: Sure, sure. Some jerk we can really push around.

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