Dylan Rhodes quotes from Now You See Me (2013)

Dylan Rhodes

As of this instant, we are ahead of them. We need to keep it that way, understand?

Dylan Rhodes

So here's my new theory: the legend is that the Eye is everywhere, waiting for the truly great magicians to distinguish themselves from the mediocre ones. Maybe that was you. Deep down inside, you wanted nothing more than to be part of the Eye, but you were never invited, so you tried to destroy them, but instead, what happens? You pissed them off.

Dylan Rhodes

Welcome to the Eye.

So if you had nothing to do with it, then how did the playing card get in the vault?

Daniel Atlas

Oh, yes. That would be...What do the kids call it these days? Oh, yeah, that's right, magic.

Dylan Rhodes

Just answer the question, okay, smart-ass.

Daniel Atlas

You can keep that. Don't share it with him. Um, as far as I understand it, when the man from Paris put on the magical helmet, I guess it was -

Dylan Rhodes

Listen to me. If you didn't rob that bank, then you knew about it. Which makes you an accomplice. So if you wanna walk out of here today, I suggest that you start -

Daniel Atlas

Okay, now you listen to me. Unless you think there's a DA in the state of Nevada who'd be willing to make sense of all this to a jury, then we have a show to perform. And you, Agent Rhodes, have a drawing board to get back to.

Dylan Rhodes

You are literally begging to be arrested, you know that?

Daniel Atlas

If it means you would actually do it, then yeah, but you won't. Because if you did, it means that you, and the FBI, and your friends at Interpol actually believe - at an institutional level - in magic. The press would have a field day. And we'd be even more famous than we already are. And you guys would look like idiots even more than you already are. [to Alma] Well, not you, but him, right? [back to Rhodes] You have, what we in the business like to call "nothing up your sleeve". And you know it.

Dylan Rhodes

You wanna know who sat in that chair before you? Mob bosses, murderers and thieves. And you know who put 'em there? The guy who's sitting in this chair. So I warn you, I can maintain my resolve much longer than you can maintain that phony arrogance. And the instant that you even show the slightest crack in that smug façade, I'll be there. I will be all over you like -

Daniel Atlas

Like white on rice? Sorry, that's unfair. Let me warn you. I want you to follow. Because no matter what you think you might know, we will always be one step, three steps, seven steps ahead of you. And just when you think you're catching up, that's when we'll be right behind you. And at no time will you be anywhere other than exactly where I want you to be. So come close, get all over me; because the closer you think you are, the less you'll actually see.

Dylan Rhodes

I’m gonna nail you!

Daniel Atlas

Something wrong with that soda, miss?

Daniel Atlas

Oh, shit. [grabs Rhodes' phone before the liquid can touch it] First rule of magic: Always be the smartest guy in the room.