A character in Burn After Reading (2008)

Linda quotes from Burn After Reading (2008)

Frances McDormand

Tied for 6th most-quoted character in Burn After Reading (2008): in 3 of its 25 quotes
Most scenes with: Chad (2)

Scenes with Linda

3 scenes

Throw it out?!

Linda

You can't do that! You should put a note up in the ladies' locker room.

Put a note up? "Highly classified shit found, Signals Intelligence shit, CIA shit? Hello? Did you lose your secret CIA shit?" I don't think so.

[Leading Linda downstairs]

Yeah, I tell ya. I saw an ad for this in a gentlemen's magazine. Twelve hundred bucks, TWELVE HUNDRED BUCKS. I'm lookin' at this thing and I think, "You gotta be kiddin' me." I'm a hobbyist. Thing's basically nothing but speed rails. I figure I'd go down to Home Depot and whip this up myself for... a hundred bucks. [Pulls the tarp off the machine]

Linda

...What is it?

What is it?? [Points to the chair] You sit down there, make yourself comfortable, put your feet in the stirrups, and...

Linda
[Harry pushes the chair back, and when it comes forward, a dildo pushes up through a hole in the seat of the chair. The chair continues to rock back and forth, with the dildo going up and down]

Oh my God!...[Hushed voice] THAT'S FANTASTIC.

Something, isn't it? Hundred bucks, all in; not counting the labor and...the cost of the dildo -those things aren't cheap- See, I like to...I'm not set up to mold hard rubber.

Linda

Where's the money?

He hit me.

Linda

Where's the money?!

[Pause]

He didn't give it to me.

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