The Best Admiral Wilcox Quotes

Ilene: [Godzilla is approaching the ships at sea] Did we change course?
Admiral: No. We're nowhere near the areas you flagged.
Nathan: [looking at the radar] It looks like he's coming for us anyway.
Ilene: He's not coming for us.
Maia: [referring to Kong as Godzilla is coming for him] Him? Then dump him. Dump the monkey!
Ilene: How about we throw you off instead, huh?

Admiral: Dr. Andrews. We've avoided all of Godzilla's known territorial waters according to your guidelines.
Ilene: Good.
Admiral: Do I need to be concerned?
Ilene: Yes. They do have a way of sensing threats. And we believe that they had an ancient rivalry. The myths say that their ancestors fought each other in a great war.
Admiral: So if they meet again, who bows to who, is that it?
Ilene: No, I spent 10 years on that island studying him. I know this for sure. Kong bows to no one.

Nathan: [Godzilla is coming back for Kong after almost drowning him] He's circling back.
Ilene: This won't end until one of them submits.
Nathan: Shut it down.
Ilene: What?
Nathan: All of it. Guns, engines. Shut it down. Right now.
Admiral: If we do that, we're dead.
Nathan: No, we're playing dead.
Ilene: And we're making him think that he's won.