Kate Burroughs Quotes in Breach (2007)

Kate Burroughs: I'm sorry you're having problems at home. I'd offer you some advice, but it wouldn't be worth much. I don't even have a cat.

Kate Burroughs: That was the worst spy in American history you brought down, and you're just going to walk away.

Eric O'Neill: Can you think of a better time to walk away?

Kate Burroughs: Nope.

Eric O'Neill: Is it worth it? Being an agent.

Kate Burroughs: Ask me when we've caught him.

Eric O'Neill: What if he's smarter than I am?

Kate Burroughs: A couple of years ago, the bureau put together a task force. Lots of assets had been disappearing. So this task force was formed to find the mole who was giving them up. Our best analysts poring over data for years looking for the guy, and they could never quite find him. Guess who was put in charge of the task force? He was smarter than all of us. Actually, I can live with that part. It's the idea that my entire career has been a waste of time, that's the part I hate. Everything I've done since I got to this office, everything we've all been paid to do, he was undoing it. We all coulda just stayed home.

Eric O'Neill: There's no such thing as the Information Assurance Division, is there?

Kate Burroughs: No. We created that to lure him back from State. 9930 was built for him, too. Video, audio, bafflers in the vents, heat sensors, motion sensors. Probably enough microwaves in that office to cook a chicken.

Kate Burroughs: You're going to make agent, Eric. Isn't that what you wanted?

Eric O'Neill: It was.

Kate Burroughs: Until you came over to my apartment and saw the TV dinners and no cat?

Kate Burroughs: The director's running it. He sees your pages every day.

Eric O'Neill: [looks nervous]

Kate Burroughs: [smiles] Keep them coming, by the way. Our audio's missing about ninety percent of what Hanssen says in there.

Eric O'Neill: He mumbles.

Kate Burroughs: He does a lot of things, this guy.

Kate Burroughs: [to Jack] I'm saying this in the most loving way, "Shit or get off the pot!"

Kate Burroughs: Is this the fun part? Are we having fun yet?

Jack: Are you mad at me?

Kate Burroughs: You got it!

Jack: You picked a helluva time to get irrational.

Kate Burroughs: Oh, I'm not irrational. Rational people get angry. Irrational people pretend they don't.

Jack: Why do you think we love this boat so much?

Kate Burroughs: I don't know.

Jack: You know why?

Kate Burroughs: I knew it. He only asked us so that he could tell us his theory. Go ahead, sweetheart. Tell us why we love this boat so much.

Jack: Because it represents our primeval desire to control water. See? Now, think about it. All our beginnings are wet. Sloshing around in the womb. Baptism. The first life that came out of the warm soup of the ocean. You know?

Danny: [no interest] Mhmmm...

Kate Burroughs: Jack loves ideas. And he can do so much with them. I have seen him take one idea at a dinner party and bring the entire conversation to a complete halt.

Claudia Zimmer: [Nick comes out with clam dish] I love these! I have this insatiable desire to have dominance over the clams.

Jack: It so happens that Venus rose from the sea on a clam shell. Sexuality was born in wetness.

Claudia Zimmer: [laughing] It's easier that way!

Jack: Jeez.

Danny: I love that woman.

Jack: Danny is driving me crazy. He has to be the expert on everything. What's a matter with him?

Kate Burroughs: He's very needy, that's all.

Jack: Needy? He's hypochondriacal, stingy, bossy, selfish, compulsive, and paranoid. He's the Muhammad Ali of mental illness.

Ginny: I think Danny's upset.

Kate Burroughs: Oh, he'll be alright.

Ginny: We've been joking around all night and he hasn't joined in. I think he's hurt. I think maybe we owe him an apology.

Kate Burroughs: Why, because I laughed at him?

Ginny: Well... yeah.

Kate Burroughs: Look, Ginny, when people have been friends as long as we have, it's not such a terrible thing to kid somebody out of a depression. So don't get upset about what you don't understand.

Danny: [furiously at Jack] Now, dammit! I just told you my deepest fear! Why can't you listen to what I'm saying instead of how I'm saying it? I mean, do you have any idea -any idea- what it is to be afraid of death? I can't eat my bowl of cereal in the morning because I have an irrational fear of milk. I stand there in hallways afraid to press strange elevator buttons. I almost threw out my jockey shorts because I have this fear of elastic!

[Kate begins laughing hysterically]

Ginny: Don't laugh at him.

Danny: No. Go on. Go on, laugh. Laugh. Good. I'm a fool, right? Right?

Kate Burroughs: Oh, Danny. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Now, come on... are you really afraid of your underwear?

[she starts laughing again]

Danny: I'm dying, she's laughing.

Jack: You do the work of three people. You're perfect!

Kate Burroughs: [disgusted] How DARE you call me that!

Jack: Call you perfect?

Kate Burroughs: Yeah! That's what I heard, right?

Kate Burroughs: I am sick and tired of all this macho bullshit!

Claudia Zimmer: Is he still thoughtful?

Kate Burroughs: [hugging Jack] Yes, Jack is thoughtful.

Claudia Zimmer: Does he observe good bathroom etiquette?

Kate Burroughs: Huh?

Claudia Zimmer: Does he leave the seat up or does he put it down?

Danny: Wait a minute! I always put the seat down!

Claudia Zimmer: Yeah, after I yelled at you to do it!

Kate Burroughs: [calmly, but icily] I'm sorry to have to tell you this.

Kate Burroughs: What?

Jack: You're making me angry.

Kate Burroughs: You're angry? Right now?

Jack: [again, calmly] I'm enraged.

Kate Burroughs: How was I supposed to know? Maybe you can stamp your foot next time. Or try this.

[shrieking]

Kate Burroughs: WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Kate Burroughs: [pretending to speak to an eavesdropping Danny outside hotel room door] Danny dear, please don't take this the wrong way, you know how fond I am of you, but I think your Mercedes sucks!

Kate Burroughs: Danny, calm down!

Danny: Please don't tell me to calm down, this is the second time today someone has told me to calm down!

Kate Burroughs: Well, I'm sorry. It's only my first.