Danny DeVito credited as playing...
Frank Stedman
- Max Landsberger: [on Jack Issel's answering machine] Jack, hi, this is Max Landsberger, I'm in charge of new recuits at INC. I'll be showing you around for the first few days. Now, you'll be starting with Frank Stedman on the 41st floor. I'll meet you at his office at nine. Oh, and congratulations, Jack. You really scored getting Stedman. He's goin' right to the top.
- Frank Stedman: [into a phone in his car] Sid! It's Frank Steadman! I'm dead!
- Sid: [over the phone] Frank...
- Frank Stedman: Finished!
- Sid: ...just relax!
- Frank Stedman: Helmes swore he wouldn't announce this move until Christmas! It's the goddamn headline in the Journal!
- Sid: Hey, no problem, Frank.
- Frank Stedman: The SEC's gonna want to know why...
- Sid: Hey, we can take care of everything...
- Frank Stedman: ...I sold 50,000 Allenville shares...
- Sid: ...just relax!
- Frank Stedman: ...the day before we torpeded the plant!
- Sid: Frank, Frank, can you hold on just a second there?
- Frank Stedman: I could go to jail!
- Sid: Can you hold?
- Frank Stedman: No, I can't hold! What do you- huh? Sid, Sid! Crap!
- [to Sal]
- Frank Stedman: Will you get this thing movin'?
- Sal: [calmly] We're stuck in a traffic jam, sir; I'm not the great Houdini.
- Frank Stedman: Well, blow your horn like everybody else!
- Sal: Only a fool blows his horn in a traffic jam, sir.
- [Steadman, still holding the phone in his left hand, gets up, comes forward, leans over the front seats, and begins pressing on the steering wheel horn with his right]
- Frank Stedman: [seconds later, into phone] Please, please, please, just pick up, please! Come on, come on, God, please, Sid-
- [click]
- Frank Stedman: Sid!
- Sid: Frank?
- [Steadman arrives, running, at his office to find furniture movers moving out all his furniture]
- Frank Stedman: What the hell are you doing?
- [Frank leaps up onto the couch carried by two movers]
- Frank Stedman, Mover: We are not the source...
- Frank Stedman: [beating on the couch] Pit it back! Put it all back! Down! Down, down, down, down, down, down.
- Mover: [indicating his clipboard] All I know is what's on the work order.
- Frank Stedman: Why are you doin' this? Who told you to do this to me?
- Mover: Someone said the guy who was in here died.
- Frank Stedman: Died? *Died*? Do I look dead, huh? What the hell do you mean, "died"?
- [Frank grabs Jack standing nearby]
- Frank Stedman: Do I?
- Jack Issel: Uh... not to me, sir.
- Stedman's Secretary: This is Jack Issel, sir.
- Frank Stedman: [pushes between] Out of my frickin' way!
- Max Landsberger: [smiling] Good morning, Frank.
- [Frank shoves Max hard on the shoulder knocking him against the wall as he storms past]