Dynasty (TV Series)

The Birthday Party (1981)

John Forsythe: Blake Carrington

Quotes 

• Blake Carrington : [after winning a game of pool]  That'll be five dollars.

  Joseph : Considering the difference in our incomes, that doesn't seem very sportsmanlike to me.

  Blake Carrington : Well, that's an old line of yours, Joseph, and it's not going to work. Besides, I need the money.

  [snaps his fingers] 

• Jeff Colby : By the way, have you met these folks? I mean, really met them? Cecil Colby, you know, of course. Been called an "unprincipled conglomerature."

  Bethany : What's that?

  Jeff Colby : Oh, never mind. Oh, he's kind of proud of it though, anyway, and you know "pride goeth before destruction." Actually, he's a white slaver - buys and sells people. So you look out for him.

  Bethany : Not Cecil?

  Jeff Colby : And this fellow over here, Andrew Laird. He's gotten a little thick around the middle, but would you believe he was once one of the most brilliant criminal attorneys in the Rocky Mountain states? He gave up his career to shuffle papers for Blake Carrington. Oh, at a a scandalous salary, of course! But then who am I to judge Andrew Laird... when I've been bought for a spoiled little girl's monkey on a string?

  [Fallon stares daggers] 

  Jeff Colby : It didn't even cost the price of a new polo pony. Blake Carrington I never did like very much. When I was a kid he scared the hell out of me. I sure wasn't real anxious to have him as a father-in-law. But tonight I got to confess, I feel sorry for him, because he's been bought, too, just like the rest of us. Or sold, depending on your point of view.

  Blake Carrington : Are you quite finished, Jeff?

  Jeff Colby : Not quite. The one I think we really ought to drink to is Krystle. Now, she married into this emerald-studded zoo of ours without any preparation at all. And who knows what price she's gonna pay for it.

  [raises his glass] 

  Jeff Colby : To you, Krystle. Good luck, kid. You're gonna need it. Well, I'm done now. Oh, if there's anyone I haven't offended, please excuse me, but I promised this young lady the next dance.

• Blake Carrington : Funny, isn't it, how the people you trust the most will do you in, cut you the closest? That's what Julius Caesar had to learn.

  Joseph : Learned a little too late to do anything about it, don't you think?

  Blake Carrington : Well, perhaps I should profit from Caesar's experience.

• Blake Carrington : Let me show you the cockpit of this flying hotel and you'll see what I mean.

  Bethany : Do you mind, Cecil?

  Cecil Colby : No, no, of course not. But just don't let him tell you he's run out of gas and wants to park.

• Blake Carrington : [raises his glass]  Cecil, to you. You've been a good friend. And more. I don't think it's any secret here at this table that you helped me out of some small difficulty recently.

  Jeff Colby : And all it cost you was your daughter. Well, that's not a very large price to pay for survival, is it, Blake?

• Blake Carrington : What happened to those days when daughters were virgins, and sons took over their father's businesses, and wives cherished their husbands, forsaking all others?