Banacek (TV Series)

Ten Thousand Dollars a Page (1973)

George Peppard: Thomas Banacek

Quotes 

• Thomas Banacek : There's an old Polish proverb that says, "Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it comes off easily."

• Elliot : You are an overrated, overpaid showboat. Just seeing you here and I start hyperventilating.

  Thomas Banacek : Don't hold back. Level with me. Do you want me on this case or not?

• Thomas Banacek : I'm not doing anything. Besides, if I told you, you'd laugh at it.

• Walter Tyson : What I am is what I precisely started out to be, something I've labored toward all my life - tyrant. And now I am at the point when I am beginning to enjoy it, and one of the most enjoyable things is that I can have my own way - about anything.

  Thomas Banacek : I know the feeling, but what I don't understand, Mr. Tyson, is what you want with me.

  Walter Tyson : I couldn't be plainer. I want you exclusively on the case working for me; so, tell me now - yes or no.

  Thomas Banacek : But I'm already *on* the case. It's intriguing. You have my exclusivity without paying for it.

  Walter Tyson : No, I want more assurance than that. Whatever you hold most dear, Mr. Banacek, double it, and that's how dear The Book of Hours is to me.

• Thomas Banacek : How's Mr. Tyson?

  Glassman : Well, at one point last night it looked serious. Dr. Stone said he was sinking, so we prayed... but he *still* recovered.