Fred Melrose Quotes in The Secret of My Succe$s (1987)

Vera Prescott: Why haven't I met you before?

Fred Melrose: Maybe you ain't been hangin' out in the mailroom.

Vera Prescott: Oooh, the "male room." I like that sound!

Brantley Foster: [reading mail while sorting] Some of this stuff doesn't make any sense. They send requisitions through two departments to get procurements for a third. What kind of thinking is that?

Fred Melrose: That's suit thinking. Something happens to a man when he puts on a necktie. Cuts off all the oxygen to his brain.

[Brantley said "good morning" to an executive]

Fred Melrose: Not the suits, man! You never consort with the suits unless they consort with you first.

Brantley Foster: Wait a minute, that's ridiculous! He's a person, I'm a person. I can't say hello to him?

Fred Melrose: He's not a person, he's a suit! You're mailroom. No consorting.

Brantley Foster: Whoa, whoa, listen, I'm going to need your help, both of you.

Fred Melrose: Is it something I could get fired for?

Brantley Foster: Absolutely.

Fred Melrose: I like it!

[Brantley is carrying a briefcase into the mailroom]

Fred Melrose: What's in there?

Brantley Foster: My lunch.

Fred Melrose: Your lunch? In a briefcase?

Brantley Foster: Yeah. I ran out of brown bags.