Burn After Reading (2008)

John Malkovich: Osborne Cox

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Quotes 

• Osbourne Cox : I have a drinking problem? Fuck you, Peck, you're a Mormon. Compared to you we ALL have a drinking problem!

• Osbourne Cox : If you ever carried out your proposed threat you would experience such a shitstorm of consequences my friend your empty little head would be spinning faster than the wheels of your Schwinn bicycle back there.

  Chad Feldheimer : [laughing]  You think that's a Schwinn!

• Osbourne Cox : No. No, I'm sorry, I don't know the number to, uh, my savings account because believe it or not I don't spend my entire day sitting around trying to memorize the fucking numbers to my fucking bank accounts! Moron!

• Chad Feldheimer : Osbourne Cox?

  Osbourne Cox : Yes, this is Osbourne Cox, who the FUCK are YOU?

• [repeated line] 

  Osbourne Cox : What the fuck...?

• Osbourne Cox : Some clown, or two clowns, have gotten a hold of my memoirs.

  Katie Cox : Your what?

  Osbourne Cox : Stolen it, or I don't know...

  Katie Cox : Your what?

  Osbourne Cox : My memoirs, the book I'm writing.

  Katie Cox : Well why in God's name would anyone think that's worth anything?

• Chad Feldheimer : Uh, O-Osbourne Cox?

  Osbourne Cox : Yes! Yes, it's - Hello! It's Osbourne Cox! Who the fuck are you? What documents are you talking about?

• Osbourne Cox : And you're my wife's lover?

  Ted Treffon : [shaking his head]  No.

  Osbourne Cox : Then what are you doing here?

  [pause] 

  Osbourne Cox : I know you. You're the guy from the gym.

  Ted Treffon : I'm not here representing HardBodies.

  Osbourne Cox : Oh, yes. I know very well what you represent.

  [pause] 

  Osbourne Cox : You represent the idiocy of today.

  Ted Treffon : No, I don't represent that either.

  Osbourne Cox : Yeah. You're the guy at the gym when I asked about that moronic woman.

  Ted Treffon : She's not a moron.

  Osbourne Cox : You're in league with that moronic woman. You are part of a league of morons.

  Ted Treffon : No. No.

  Osbourne Cox : Oh, yes. You see, you're one of the morons I've been fighting my whole life. My whole fucking life. But guess what... Today, I win.

  [gun shot] 

• Osbourne Cox : We were young and committed and there was nothing we could not do. We thought of the Agency less... Um... The principles of George Kennan, a personal hero of mine, like the fabled Murrow's Boys, at a time of...

• Osbourne Cox : [on phone]  Tell Dr. Cox I have the new keys!

  [Osbourne hangs up, and picks up a hatchet] 

• Osbourne Cox : Give me the CD!

  Chad Feldheimer : As soon as you give us the money, dickwad!

• Harry Pfarrer : Twenty years of Marshal Service, I never discharged my gun.

  Osbourne Cox : That sounds like something you ought to be telling your psychologist.

  Harry Pfarrer : I don't have a psychologist!

• Osbourne Cox : Lactose Reflux? Do you mean Lactose intolerance or Acid Reflux? They're two different things!

  Harry Pfarrer : This is cheese, so... Lactose intolerance.

  Osbourne Cox : So you misspoke.

• Palmer DeBakey Smith, CIA Officer : [first lines - greeting his arrival]  Ozzie, come on in.

  Osbourne Cox : Palmer, what's up?

  Palmer DeBakey Smith, CIA Officer : Uh, you know, uh, Peck and Olson?

  Osbourne Cox : Peck yes, hi ya...

  Palmer DeBakey Smith, CIA Officer : Olson by reputation.

  Osbourne Cox : [to Olson]  I'm Osbourne Cox.

  Olson : Yeah, I, mmm...

  Osbourne Cox : Aren't you with...

  Palmer DeBakey Smith, CIA Officer : Ya, that's right. Have a seat.

  Palmer DeBakey Smith, CIA Officer : Look Oz, look, there's no easy way to say this: We're taking you off the Balkans Desk.

• Osbourne Cox : What the fuck is this? Whose ass didn't I kiss? Huh?