David Copperfield (1993 TV Movie)

Terrence Scammell: Butcher, Baker

Quotes 

• Murdstone : [singing]  We've fixed the place up special, we've even polished off your chains. Look at all our smiling guests!

  Mr. Grimby : Not one of them complains!

• Murdstone : There's no reason we can't control the world's cheese market!

  Mr. Grimby : There isn't?

  Murdstone : No one can make cheese cheaper than Murdstone... and Grimby.

  Mr. Grimby : No one's thought of using free labour.

  Murdstone : Oh, others think of it, we do it!

  [scoffs] 

  Murdstone : If only there wasn't the rent to pay.

  Mr. Grimby : If only.

  Murdstone : We'd have all the money we need to expand.

  Mr. Grimby : [rubbing his stomach]  Expand? I love expanding! Except...

  Murdstone : Except what?

  Mr. Grimby : The Duke wants a fortune for the factory.

  Murdstone : Such a fortune is almost in my hands.

  Mr. Grimby : It is?

  Murdstone : Clara Copperfield's health is not improving. Especially since her boy...

  [produces and destroys letters] 

  Murdstone : never answers her letters.

  [his bird yells in protest] 

  Mr. Grimby : Naughty naughty Mr. Murdstone.

  Murdstone : Merely good business Mr. Grimby. Soon our little cheeseworks will become... an empire!