Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Vincent Schiavelli: Dr. Kaufman

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Quotes 

• Dr. Kaufman : This is very embarrassing. It seems there is a red box they need in your car, only they can't get it open. They want me to get you to tell how to open it. I feel like an idiot, I don't know what to say.

  [Bond just smiles] 

  Dr. Kaufman : I am to torture you if you don't do it.

  James Bond : Do you have a doctorate in that as well?

  Dr. Kaufman : No, no this is more like a hobby... but I am very gifted.

  James Bond : Oh, I believe you.

• Dr. Kaufman : My art is in great demand, Mr. Bond. I go all over the world. I am especially good at the celebrity overdose.

• Dr. Kaufman : [aims his gun at Bond]  But now, Mr. Bond, I am afraid that our little...

  [burst of static from his earpiece] 

  Dr. Kaufman : Ah, Stamper! Stop yelling in my ear, ja?

  Mr. Stamper : Sir, they can't get into the car.

  Dr. Kaufman : Oh, you can't be serious. Did you call the Auto Club?

  Mr. Stamper : Do *you* want to call them? Make him tell you how to open it.

  Dr. Kaufman : O-O-Okay. Ja, I ask.

• [finding Paris's body in his hotel room, Bond suddenly realizes the news report in the background is reporting his death along with hers] 

  Dr. Kaufman : [click]  I have a clear shot at your head, Mr. Bond. Stand up, slowly, drop your gun, and kick it towards me, ja?

  [Bond does so] 

  Dr. Kaufman : Good. Now sit down on the bed next to Mrs. Carver.

  [Bond does so, and Kaufman turns off the TV and extracts a videotape from the VCR] 

  Dr. Kaufman : The story will be on the news in an hour.

  James Bond : "Tomorrow's News Today."

  Dr. Kaufman : Just so.

• James Bond : It won't look like a suicide if you shoot me from over there.

  Dr. Kaufman : I am a professor of forensic medicine. Believe me, Mr. Bond, I could shoot you from Stuttgart und still create ze proper effect.