Arthur Bishop Quotes in Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)

Arthur Bishop: Tell your principal it never pays to fuck with the dead.

Courier: Five months in Brazil. You're a hard man to find.

Arthur Bishop: [in Portuguese] I don't speak English.

Courier: You even have the accent right.

Arthur Bishop: [in Portuguese] If you say so.

Courier: I do say so.

Arthur Bishop: Good judgment comes from experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

[first lines]

Arthur Bishop: What I do requires a certain mindset. I do assignments; designated targets. Some jobs need to look like accidents. Others must cast suspicion on someone else. A select few need to send a clear message. Pulling a trigger is easy. The best jobs are the ones nobody even knows you were there.

Arthur Bishop: Not so good for your side.

Dean: Those were my two best teams. Guess I'll have to send more.

Arthur Bishop: Save the fuel. I'm coming for you.

Harry McKenna: You're a goddamn machine. You see things. You view people differently than I do, differently than anybody does. But you have a problem, Arthur. You need companionship.

Arthur Bishop: I have you Harry.

Harry McKenna: Oh, then you're in deeper shit than I thought.

Arthur Bishop: Murder is only killing without a license.

[last lines]

Arthur Bishop: [voiceover as Steve reads note] Steve, if you read this, it means I didn't make it back. It also means you've broken a filament controlling a 13-second delay trigger. End of game. Bang! You're dead.

Steve McKenna: You do this for money?

Arthur Bishop: Money is paid, but that's not the motive. It has to do with standing outside of it all, on your own.

Arthur Bishop: That was pretty cold.

Steve McKenna: I knew she wouldn't do it.

Arthur Bishop: But, had she done that, would be willing to pick up the tab?

Arthur Bishop: You always have to be dead sure. Dead sure or dead.

Arthur Bishop: It takes a special kind of person to do that.

Steve McKenna: I can dig it.

Arthur Bishop: You say you can "dig it". But, the fact is that you don't know what you're talking about.

Steve McKenna: You do?

Arthur Bishop: Do I?

Steve McKenna: Interesting. When he's cornered, he answers questions with questions.

Arthur Bishop: [When Arthur is explaining to Steve about the rules in the martial art scene] They won't hit each other or one of them would dead and that's against the law.