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James Reece: I'm not your driver, I'm your partner.
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James Reece: Sir, you do realize that I am not Special Ops certified, right?
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[Reece is beating the crap out of Rashid]
James Reece: GIVE ME BACK MY FUCKIN' RING!
FBI agent Charlie Wax: That's what I'm talkin' about! Get him back!
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FBI agent Charlie Wax: Shoot the fucker.
James Reece: I'm not gonna shoot him, Wax.
[two men come in and start beating up Reece, Wax shakes his head and continues looking out the window with binoculars. Finally he pulls out a gun and shoots the two men]
James Reece: [Walks over to Reece and hands him a big vase] Next time I tell you to shoot the fucker, shoot the fucker!
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Caroline: [from trailer] Did you save the world again, baby?
James Reece: If only you knew, Caroline.
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James Reece: [after Wax admitted fabricating the story about the Secretary of Defense's niece] I don't know where the fuck we're going, or what the fuck this is about!
FBI agent Charlie Wax: What the fuck do you think this is about? It's about terrorists! It's about terrorists, man, converting their finances into drugs so they can move it around without being detected.
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James Reece: I'm not your driver. I'm your partner.
FBI agent Charlie Wax: Yeah, you're the chess player. I read your file.
James Reece: You play?
FBI agent Charlie Wax: Do I look like I play board games?
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FBI agent Charlie Wax: This motherfucker hates Americans so much, even though we saved his country's ass in not only one world war but two, he still won't let me through with my cans!
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FBI agent Charlie Wax: Checkmate, motherfucker!
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[first lines]
James Reece: [accepts printout] Thank you, Cindy.
Secretary: Welcome...
James Reece: [reading] African Aid Summit prep meeting with the Foreign Minister tomorrow at noon, Summit Conference on Wednesday, G8 Undersecretary conference dinner on Thursday, and a reception for the Secretary of State Friday, sir.
Ambassador Bennington: Can't you see we have more urgent matters to consider, Reece?
[moves his queen]
James Reece: Of course, sir.
[counter moves his queen]
James Reece: Check.
Ambassador Bennington: Must you always be so methodical?
James Reece: Well that's what you pay me for, sir.
Ambassador Bennington: And you're worth every penny. But that doesn't mean I'm just going to sit here and watch you copy Fischer's ambush on Spassky back in '72.
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FBI agent Charlie Wax: Nice work Reece.
James Reece: [splattered in blood] What's so nice about it?
FBI agent Charlie Wax: How 'bout the fact that he's dead and you're alive.
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James Reece: [Mocking Wax's earlier statement] Wax on, Wax off.
FBI agent Charlie Wax: What about it?
James Reece: I don't get it. Are you The Karate Kid or something?
FBI agent Charlie Wax: If you wanna be a secret agent man, you have to roll like a secret agent man. It's code.
James Reece: Code?
FBI agent Charlie Wax: Yeah. Code. Wax is on, he's gonna take you off. Gives them something to think about, throws them off balance. Got it?
James Reece: Got it.
FBI agent Charlie Wax: Good.
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FBI agent Charlie Wax: [after buying 5 grams of cocaine] All right, give me a kilo.
Rashid: A kilo? You think this is Bogota?
FBI agent Charlie Wax: What the fuck am I gonna do with five grams?
Rashid: [pulling out a gun] Maybe you can sniff it off of your homeboy's ass.
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James Reece: [points a gun at a man] Stop! Give me your charger!
FBI agent Charlie Wax: Yeah! That's the big boss shit I'm looking for
James Reece: [pulls hammer on gun] Give me your charger!
[the man gives Reece his charger]
FBI agent Charlie Wax: What the fuck are you doing man?
James Reece: What the fuck does it look like I'm doing? I'm charging my fucking cell.
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Caroline: [putting her arms around Reese] So, what are we eating for dinner?
James Reece: Whoa whoa, Wait a second. Isn't it part of French tradition that the woman cooks while the guy watches TV?
Caroline: Well, things have changed since the Middle Ages, you know. Now it's exactly the contrary.
James Reece: Why don't we skip dinner altogether and go straight to dessert?
Caroline: Is that all you can think about?
James Reece: Every second of the day.
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Caroline: [as Reese is about to drive off] Wait, one more kiss?
James Reece: [kisses Caroline] Don't get me started, my partner's waiting.
Caroline: [sweetly] Just remember who your partner really is.
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James Reece: How many more of them do you think there are?
FBI agent Charlie Wax: Last census, about a billion.
From Paris with Love Quotes
Extended Reading
Director: Pierre Morel
Language: English,French,Mandarin,German Release date: February 5, 2010