Mr. Seymour Quotes in Ghost Dad (1990)

Mr. Emery Collins: To call your recent behavior incompetent would be like calling World War II a spat! I could tear you apart with my bare hands!

Mr. Seymour: He's a little upset.

Mr. Emery Collins: I cannot believe you would walk out of negotiations just when we are closing them!

Mr. Seymour: I'm sure you had an excellent reason.

Mr. Emery Collins: If I hadn't stepped in, the deal would've fallen through and I'd have had to kill you!

Mr. Seymour: But we closed the deal so he doesn't actually have to kill you now.

Mr. Emery Collins: So instead I'm going to ruin you.

Mr. Seymour: This is the part I was telling you about.

Mr. Emery Collins: You're fired!

Elliot Hopper: Mr. Collins...

Mr. Emery Collins: YOU'RE FIRED!

Mr. Seymour: You walked out on a meeting.

Elliot Hopper: No, I can explain.

Mr. Emery Collins: YOU'RE FIRED!

Elliot Hopper: This is not for me, this is for my children. Their whole future depends on this, Mr. Collins. Can't lose my job now. I've served your company 14 years. I've served you well and loyally and that's got to count for something.

[Collins and Seymour look at each other]

Mr. Emery Collins: [smugly] You're fired.

Elliot Hopper: Mr. Collins. MR. COLLINS!

Mr. Seymour: Don't come to the banquet.

Mr. Seymour: It is said that the Duke de Corsay invited his water mechanic to the top of an elaborate cascade he had built and asked him if he could build such a marvel for anyone else. The man, offering various thanks and pleasantries, finally admitted that with sufficient patronage he probably could. The Duke de Corsay pushed him gently in the small of the back, and the wretched man plummeted to a watery death.