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Dwight Schrute

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Rainn Wilson lives in Los Angeles with his wife, fiction writer 'Holiday Reinhorn' (qv) (Big Cats), ...

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Dwight Schrute Quotes

07x24 - Dwight K. Schrute, (Acting) Manager Season 7 / Episode 24: - Dwight K. Schrute, (Acting) Manager

Dwight Schrute: I will run this branch or I will destroy this branch. Or... I don't know. Something always works out.
07x24 - Dwight K. Schrute, (Acting) Manager Season 7 / Episode 24: - Dwight K. Schrute, (Acting) Manager

Jim Halpert: Hello, Mr. Souvenier. Mr. Jacques Souvenier? Nice to meet you. It says here you're French?


Jim Halpert: So you worked at your last job for 15 years as assistant to the regional manager.
Dwight Schrute: [Muttering to disguise his voice] Assistant regional manager.
Jim Halpert: Assistant *to the* regional manager.
Dwight Schrute: Assistant regional manager.
Jim Halpert: What is it?
Dwight Schrute: [in French accent] Assistant regional manager.
Jim Halpert: Oh, that's my mistake. Sorry about that. The last paper company you worked for burned to the ground? And all because they wouldn't hire a manager who lived and breathed paper. That's a travesty.
07x23 - The Inner Circle Season 7 / Episode 23: - The Inner Circle

Jim Halpert: All in favor of the baskets full of chocolates, teddy bears, and ballons.


Dwight Schrute: Wait, wait. All in favor of the knapsack filled with canned goods, chainsaw, gasoline and emergency radio in case he wakes up post-apocalypse.


Jim Halpert: Nope. Baskets have it.
07x23 - The Inner Circle Season 7 / Episode 23: - The Inner Circle

Dwight Schrute: So I expect you to be on your best behavior, which means none of you will be insubordinate, nor will you foment insurrection.
Jim Halpert: Question. If we've already fomented insurrection, may we be grandfathered in?
Dwight Schrute: Define "foment."
Jim Halpert: You define "foment."
07x23 - The Inner Circle Season 7 / Episode 23: - The Inner Circle

Dwight Schrute: Hey, hey, hey, hey. What do you think you're doing? What's this? What's The Fist?
Jim Halpert: It's just a social club. Like the French Revolution or The Black Panthers or communism. It's just a club. Guys talking.
Dwight Schrute: You expect me to believe that you're starting a rebellion?
Jim Halpert: Nope, social club. God, I hate when everybody calls us a rebellion.


Dwight Schrute: Okay, you know what? I would love to join The Fist.
Jim Halpert: And we would love to have you, but not today. Unfortunately, it's a bad day, what with Operation Overthrow and everything.
07x23 - The Inner Circle Season 7 / Episode 23: - The Inner Circle

Dwight Schrute: Jo is coming later today. I cannot have a subordinate trying to make me look stupid. Okay? I need you to promise me you'll be on your best behavior.
Jim Halpert: I *promised* other people that I would be on my worst behavior. And I gave them my word, so...
Dwight Schrute: Don't make me fire you.
Jim Halpert: You can't fire me. You're acting manager, not office manager, so you have no firing powers.
Dwight Schrute: Don't make me pre-fire you.
Jim Halpert: [serious tone] You wouldn't dare.
Dwight Schrute: Watch this. You're pre-fired. And when I'm promoted, you'll be full-fired.


Jim Halpert: If you get promoted. And if you haven't fallen in love with me by then.
Dwight Schrute: [shocked] What?
07x23 - The Inner Circle Season 7 / Episode 23: - The Inner Circle

Dwight Schrute: Yee-haw! Woo-hoo!


Dwight Schrute: [in Wild West accent] Howdy, partners. It's me, Gun Safety Dwight. And I'm the rootin'-est...


Dwight Schrute: I can't do this. Um, look, obviously a gun went off under my watch and I'm launching a full investigation.
Stanley Hudson: We all saw you do it.
07x23 - The Inner Circle Season 7 / Episode 23: - The Inner Circle

Toby Flenderson: I am supposed to collect eyewitness accounts. Who saw Dwight do this?


Dwight Schrute: Okay, really?
Toby Flenderson: Would you consider this a terrorist incident?
Ryan Howard: I felt terrorized.
Dwight Schrute: Come on.
Toby Flenderson: Oh! There's a whole other terrorism booklet for that.
Dwight Schrute: I just really, really think that we should handle this internally.
Ryan Howard: Dwight, why is it on us to protect you?
Dwight Schrute: Because you guys are my best friends. And I mean that. Managing you for this last week has been the greatest honor of my life. And if you ruin this, I will burn this office to the ground.


Dwight Schrute: And I mean that figuratively, not literally. Because you guys are so, so important to me. I love you guys, but don't cross me, but you're the best.
07x23 - The Inner Circle Season 7 / Episode 23: - The Inner Circle

Jordan Garfield: Toby got bitten by a spider, but he seems stronger than ever.
Dwight Schrute: Keep tabs on that.
Jordan Garfield: Phyllis was selling a bunch of beet futures.
Dwight Schrute: Did she say why?
Jordan Garfield: No. Oscar was on some geological Web site, checking into the seismic pressure under the building, which had increased to 39.5.
Dwight Schrute: 39.5?


Jordan Garfield: Is that a problem?
Dwight Schrute: Oh, gee, I don't know, is a mega-volcano a problem? God, this day!
07x21 - Michael's Last Dundies Season 7 / Episode 21: - Michael's Last Dundies

Dwight Schrute: I've pretty much given up on Michael doing the right thing, or the decent thing, or even the comprehensible thing.
07x17 - Threat Level Midnight Season 7 / Episode 17: - Threat Level Midnight

Dwight Schrute: All right, picture this. Snowy ash drizzles from the sky. A rabid pack of dogs surrounds you as the flame at the end of your stick dies out. There's only one hope for you: the door to my shelter. You pound. You beg. "Dwight, please let me in." But I ignore your cries and do not let you in. You want to know why?
Jim Halpert: Because of the sign that says, "No pounding, no begging."
07x17 - Threat Level Midnight Season 7 / Episode 17: - Threat Level Midnight

Kevin Malone: [to Todd] Your life is so insane. You should write a book.
Todd Packer: Since when did you learn how to read?
Kevin Malone: [still smiling] I do know how to read, though.
Todd Packer: Yeah. You know how to read a menu. This guy...


Kevin Malone: [to Holly and Dwight] I... He's right. I mean, I could lose some weight.
Dwight Schrute: Kevin, in sumo culture, you'd be considered a promising up-and-comer.
07x17 - Threat Level Midnight Season 7 / Episode 17: - Threat Level Midnight

Jim Halpert: All right, well, this isn't my best, but call Froggy 101, say that we're the tour manager for Justin Bieber, and we're giving away free tickets. We give them a number to call for the tickets, and it's his number.
Dwight Schrute: Who is Justice Beaver?
Jim Halpert: He... It's a crime-fighting beaver.
07x16 - PDA Season 7 / Episode 16: - PDA

Dwight Schrute: We've searched the whole building, Goldenface. Where is the bomb?
Goldenface: Hmm?
Dwight Schrute: We've searched the whole building, Goldenface. Where is the bomb?
Goldenface: Hmm?
Dwight Schrute: We've searched the... Okay.
07x12 - Classy Christmas Part 2 of 2 Season 7 / Episode 12: - Classy Christmas Part 2 of 2

Dwight Schrute: What'd you get?
Darryl Philbin: A book about oceans.
Dwight Schrute: Oh, really? What else? Let me see.
Darryl Philbin: That's porn. Pornography. Old lady. Nasty porn.
07x11 - Classy Christmas Part 1 of 2 Season 7 / Episode 11: - Classy Christmas Part 1 of 2

Dwight Schrute: In the end, the greatest snowball isn't a snowball at all; it's fear.
07x08 - Viewing Party Season 7 / Episode 8: - Viewing Party

Dwight Schrute: In the Schrute family, the youngest child always raises the others. I've been raising children since I was a baby.
07x04 - Sex Ed Season 7 / Episode 4: - Sex Ed

Dwight Schrute: Now, I'm no doctor, but it seems to me that we all have an obligation to the public health to track down anyone who gives us a disease, inform them of it, and take overwhelming revenge on that person. Again, I'm no doctor. I'm just a normal guy who enjoys revenge.
07x01 - Nepotism Season 7 / Episode 1: - Nepotism

Jim Halpert: Wow, that's a lot of keys.
Dwight Schrute: The bigger the key chain, the more powerful the man.
Jim Halpert: That's right. The janitor said that.
07x01 - Nepotism Season 7 / Episode 1: - Nepotism

Dwight Schrute: Who's gonna tell on us? Gabe?
Gabe Lewis: That'd be hilarious. "Joe, they're creating a hostile working environment! Stop them!" [laughs]
06x25 - Whistleblower Season 6 / Episode 25: - Whistleblower

Dwight Schrute: [about their agreement] But not in your bed. It's lumpy.
Angela Martin: Those lumps are cats, and those cats have names. And those names are Amber, Milky Way, Diane, and Lumpy.
06x23 - The Cover-Up Season 6 / Episode 23: - The Cover-Up

Dwight Schrute: Just once, I would like to be a puppet master and have nothing go wrong. Is that too much to ask?
06x17 - The Delivery (2) Season 6 / Episode 17: - The Delivery (2)

Dwight Schrute: They say no man is an island. False! I am an island, and this island is volcanic, and it's about to erupt with the hot molten lava of strategy.
06x16 - The Delivery (1) Season 6 / Episode 16: - The Delivery (1)

Jo Bennett: Do you always stay seated when a lady enters the room?
Dwight Schrute: I am treating you the same as a man, for whom I would also not stand. Unless it was the President, or Judge Judy.
Jo Bennett: I like that.
06x12 - Secret Santa Season 6 / Episode 12: - Secret Santa

Dwight Schrute: In an ideal world I would have all ten fingers on my left hand so my right hand could just be a fist for punching.
06x10 - Shareholders Meeting Season 6 / Episode 10: - Shareholders Meeting

Jim Halpert: Okay, with all due respect to everyone here, I think the most worthy opponent of you is you.
Dwight Schrute: That is correct, unless there happen to be measles present.
06x10 - Shareholders Meeting Season 6 / Episode 10: - Shareholders Meeting

Dwight Schrute: You know what? You can all have jobs at Schrute Farms as human scarecrows. It doesn't pay much and you can't unionize.
06x10 - Shareholders Meeting Season 6 / Episode 10: - Shareholders Meeting

Dwight Schrute: Voodoo Mama Juju, explain your dalliance with the dark arts.
Angela Martin: It's not my fault. I was exposed to "Harry Potter."
Dwight Schrute: I know you did it!
Dwight Schrute: [to the camera crew] I know she didn't do it. It's never the person you most suspect. It's also never the person you least suspect, since anyone with half a brain would suspect them the most. Therefore, I know the killer to be Phyllis, a.k.a. Beatrix Bourbon, the person I most medium suspect.
06x10 - Shareholders Meeting Season 6 / Episode 10: - Shareholders Meeting

Phyllis Vance: [in her game character] "I overheard you asking the butler where the pistol was kept."


Dwight Schrute: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I'm the butler. What, you were listening in on that? Oh, you rich people, you think you can do whatever you want to the servant class!
Michael Scott: No, no, no. Don't turn this into a political thing.
Dwight Schrute: I will poison your food.
06x09 - Murder Season 6 / Episode 9: - Murder

Dwight Schrute: [to camera crew] Can't a guy just buy some bagels for his friends, so they'll owe him a favor which he can use to get someone fired who stole a co-manager position from him anymore? Jeez, when did everyone get so cynical?

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