Top 10 Quotes From The Office’s Michael Scott

28 Apr 2011

The Office (NBC)

1. “That’s what she said.”

2. “I love inside jokes. I’d love to be a part of one someday.”

3. “I declare … bankruptcy!”

4. “If you think Pam’s cute now, you should have seen her a couple of years ago.”

5. “Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it’s not like this compulsive need to be liked. Like my need to be praised.”

6. “Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘If you are a racist, I will attack you with the North,’ and those are the principles I carry with me into the workplace.”

7. “I’m an early bird … And I’m a night owl. So I’m wise, and I have worms …”

8. “You need to play to win. But … you also need to win … to play.”

9. “Yes, I was the first one out. And yes, I’ve heard ‘women and children first.’ But, we do not employ children. We are not a sweatshop, thankfully. And women are equal in the workplace by law. So if I let them out first, I have a lawsuit on my hands.”

10. “There are 5 stages to grief which are … (reading from computer) Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. And right now, out there, they are all denying the fact that they’re sad and that’s hard and it’s making them all angry. And it is my job to get them all the way through to Acceptance and if not Acceptance then Depression … If I can get them depressed, then I’ll have done my job.”

According to The Detroit News