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Jeffrey Mowery in Burn After Reading (2008)

John Malkovich: Osborne Cox

Burn After Reading

John Malkovich credited as playing...

Osborne Cox

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Quotes15

  • Osbourne Cox: I have a drinking problem? Fuck you, Peck, you're a Mormon. Next 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!
  • 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?
  • 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.

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