Thirtysomething (TV Series)

First Day/Last Day (1989)

Nicolas Coster: Amos Borden

Quotes 

• Amos Borden : It's simple enough.

  Michael Steadman : Well, Mr. Borden, it's not the work. It's... I mean, if I do this, then it changes everything. It throws everything off. It ruins the speech. You see, it...

  Amos Borden : Michael, it's a commercial, not a soliloquy. Make the changes.

  Michael Steadman : You're knuckling under the client.

  Amos Borden : That's correct.

  Michael Steadman : You know, Mr. Borden, I don't know if I can do this. This is...

  Amos Borden : You can.

  Michael Steadman : Well, I'm not gonna do it.

  Amos Borden : Do what?

  Michael Steadman : The changes are stupid, okay? They make the agency look bad. They make me look bad, and I refuse to do it.

  Amos Borden : You know, taking an artistic stand on a quarter-page newspaper ad and jeopardizing your job to do it doesn't seem like a terribly smart move, does it? Now, save your quixotic impulses for your fiction. Do the job you're paid to do.