The Best James Silva Quotes

James: [yelling at the lab techs] We're looking at approximately 60,000 people becoming Jell-O on our watch, all right? That's what this shit does. Caesium-139 is Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Only you don't need sophisticated planes to place it, you only need a kid who can empty an envelope on a sidewalk.

James: Certain operations require a level of violence not palatable to most people, and certain operations require a higher level of deniability.

James: Are you feeling calm, Alice?
Alice: No, not even a little bit. Are you?
James: Me? I'm totally calm.
Alice: That's because you're mentally unstable.
James: Thank you.

James: [On Noor] He's a killer dressed up as a hero.

James: I think there is no defense against someone willing to die. Someone capable of cultivating our trust by offering us the one thing that we want, and the one thing that we need, that's the real weapon of mass destruction. A killer who looks like a hero.

James: You've got a big ego.
Li: It's not ego.
James: It's everybody's downfall, my friend. Ego is not your amigo.

[last lines]
James: The great game continues. Today was yours... see you tomorrow.

Alice: I have no ability to communicate with my daughter now.
James: You're never gonna do something normal until you die. That's what this job is.
Alice: I think I've lied to every person that I've ever met.

Anatole: [last words, in Russian] You're making a mistake.
James: [In Russian] I've made a lot of those.

Johnny: This... is such shit! This is the worst fucking shit of all the fucked up shit we've ever seen! This is the shittiest, most fucked up shit...
James: I got it. Ok? Relax, calm down. Go take a little nap.
Johnny: Fuck you!