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Quotes from The Apprentice series 5

Philip Taylor: It's like with Pantsman. People didn't get it at the time, but I tell you something. They will eventually.

Sir Alan Sugar: Does the title mean a lot to you?

Yasmina Siadatan: Have you goy my business accounts there? Claude Littner: I do. Yasmina: How did you get hold of them?

James McQuillan: You can get polyesters manmade?

One thing that is really important when you're breastfeeding is the mother needs to be happy. Because if she's anxious there's something in nature which switches off the tap in her breast.

The lid's open so the baby can jump out.

I’m skating on thin ice – and I think Sir Alan might be waiting for it to crack.

Sir Alan Sugar: Stop banging on about bloody Sandhurst again! I've had this Sandhurst group in the boardroom before. One couldn't cook a sausage on a baked-bean can. So that don't mean anything to me. I was in the Jewish Lads Brigade, Stamford Hill Division. Trainee bugler. Didn't help me sell computers when I got older.

Kate Walsh: I feel absolutely insulted that you could suggest that anything going on in my personal life impacts on my performance.

Lorraine Tighe: I'm just saying I am leading the pitch whether you like it or not. I've made that decision and you'll have to accept it.

Margaret Mountford: This may be one of the most stupid activities they have yet engaged in.

I think you're the Cassandra of the team, quite frankly. Do you know what that means? You get it right but nobody else listens. They don't believe you.

Yasmina Siadatan: Oh look. It's a toilet-chair.

Ben Clarke: I am a natural born leader and Sandhurst saw that in me and that's why I got a scholarship.

Mona Lewis: You don't want to dress up like Pantsman cos you're not Pantsman. Only Pantsman can get away with wearing his pants outside ... his clothes.

Dru Masters: I think he thinks he's Bono.

James McQuillan: It's so nice to see something that you start off with a real crappy himmin turn into what I've just heard. So I'm delighted. I feel like a monkey learning to use tools.

Ben Clarke: Are you free to take it off us for a fiver? Prospect: I'll give you a fiver to go away.

McCann Erickson executive: Did you have the idea about pants and then work backwards?

Kane: Am I actually gonna eat it? Kate Walsh: If you don't mind trying a little bit. Kane: I've got a nut allergy.

Paula Jones: Sandalwood... Sandalwood an'  Yasmina Siadatan: Something. Put a tiny drop of lavender. Go on then. Paula: Cedarwood and lavender. 90 10. Simon Constantine: Sorry. How much cedarwood was it? Paula: Er - sandalwood. Simon: Yeah? Yasmina: Yeah. The one here. I think this is it.

Ben Clarke: I got a scholarship to Sandhurst. James McQuillan: Bloody 'ell! Philip Taylor: Did you go? Ben: No.

Kimberly Davis:The long-term quality of the product may be not so good. Awww! See! It's coming all over me now.

Ben Clarke: He wasn't exactly Winston Churchill. Sir Alan Sugar: More like Churchill the nodding dog?

Ben Clarke: Bar a soap. I don't ever buy soap to be honest.

It makes perfect sense that I do the modelling. Out of the men, I'd say I probably am the best-looking.

I'm keen to go down the sex sales route. Something private in the house that's actually entertaining. Something that you can incorporate into actually having sex. That creates resistance while you're doing it. Some sort of spring-loaded thing ...

I'm not nervous. Whoever's up against me, their a***holes will be twitching like rabbits' noses.

Trevor Nelson:  I think you were probably unlucky because if you weren't in a losing team you'd probably still be in there. Well you'd definitely still be in there.

Nick Hewer: Well, I watched it very carefully. In fact I made it my business to watch you for some time.

James McQuillan: I wonnid to win this task. I really wonnid to. There's no point...  That other lot are out there now riding round on horses and I'm sitting here having to look at you and I didn't mean that disrespectfully.

Sir Alan Sugar: Some of you are good with words. I know the words to Candle In The Wind, but it doesn't make me Elton John.

You can't play me as I'm as hard to play as a Stradivarius. You lot are as easy to play as bongo drums.

Margaret Mountford: Never before in the history of car washing have so few cars been washed by so many people in such a long time.

Kate Walsh: I'm field-based.

Majid Nagra : A cleaning task is all about working hard. I mean - how hard is it to clean? I employ someone called a wife to do it for me. No - only joking.

But you don't wanna lose the first task. Not to the girls. Not that I'm sexist or anything.

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Anyway, I'll leave it with you.