The Missing Person (2009)

Michael Shannon: John Rosow

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  John Rosow : I could lie there forever. But the phone rang.

  [ringing] 

  John Rosow : Hello?

  [still ringing] 

• Miss Charley : Any other questions?

  John Rosow : Yeah, what makes this Drexler Hewitt think I'll tail this guy without any more information?

  Miss Charley : [throws envelop at him]  Good day, Mr. Rosow.

  John Rosow : [finding money in envelop]  So far, I guess...

• Hero Furillo : [letting him into his car trunk]  I hope you can breath in there.

  John Rosow : Oh, I've had apartments in New York smaller than this.

• Limo Driver : Thank you, boss.

  John Rosow : Oh, you are most welcome. And please stop calling me boss, I am not Bruce Springsteen.

• Gus Papitos : You seem upset, John. What are you thinking, thinking you wanna come over here and hit me?

  John Rosow : No, I'm just trying to remember what I ever saw in you.

• John Rosow : You wake up one day and you're an adult. And all the people you were just dreaming about have gone and changed. So you shake the sleep-dust from your eyes and you say, was it really so long ago that you and I sat together having fun? No, not so long ago. But life goes by in the blink of an eye. Sobriety after all this time isn't all as bitter as I thought it would be. Recently, for a second or two I almost felt like things were okay with the world. Strange to feel that way, when you know there are wars everywhere, everything's going to hell in a hand basket. But still I must admit, for a moment, I felt some kind of peace.

• John Rosow : I told her she could be my secretary, once I got a few more assignments. But she said she didn't mix business with pleasure. I promised her I was no pleasure. Yuk, yuk, yuk.

• [last lines] 

  John Rosow : I don't really mind living like this. Quiet, not much to say. But, sometimes, every once in a while, I remember back to when I had you.