Jaws Quotes
Quint : You have city hands, Mr. Hooper. You been countin' money all your life.
Hooper : All right, all right. Hey, I don't need this... I don't need this working-class-hero crap.
Hooper : All right, all right. Hey, I don't need this... I don't need this working-class-hero crap.
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Brody : It doesn't make any sense when you pay a guy like you to watch sharks.
Hooper : Well, uh, it doesn't make much sense for a guy who hates the water to live on an island either.
Brody : It's only an island if you look at it from the water.
Hooper : That makes a lot of sense.
Hooper : Well, uh, it doesn't make much sense for a guy who hates the water to live on an island either.
Brody : It's only an island if you look at it from the water.
Hooper : That makes a lot of sense.
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Mayor Vaughn : I don't think either of one you are familiar with our problems.
Hooper : I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and BITES YOU ON THE ASS!
Hooper : I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and BITES YOU ON THE ASS!
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Quint : Here lies the body of Mary Lee; died at the age of a hundred and three. For fifteen years she kept her virginity; not a bad record for this vicinity.
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Quint : Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him.
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Brody : "Slow ahead." I can go slow ahead. Come on down here and chum some of this shit.
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Brody : Smile you son of a BITCH. [ shoots at the air tank ]
Brody : [ Jaws blows up ] [ Brody laughs manaically ]
Brody : [ Jaws blows up ] [ Brody laughs manaically ]
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Mayor Vaughn : [ to reporter ] I'm pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have, in fact, caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers. But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the beaches are open and people are having a wonderful time. Amity, as you know, means "friendship".
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Quint : [ seeing Hooper's equipment ] What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut? [ examining the shark cage ]
Quint : Jesus H Christ, when I was a boy, every little squirt wanted to be a harpooner or a sword fisherman. What d'ya have there - a portable shower or a monkey cage?
Hooper : Anti-Shark cage.
Quint : Anti-shark cage. You go inside the cage? [ Hooper nods ]
Quint : Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark. [ sings ]
Quint : Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again.
Quint : Jesus H Christ, when I was a boy, every little squirt wanted to be a harpooner or a sword fisherman. What d'ya have there - a portable shower or a monkey cage?
Hooper : Anti-Shark cage.
Quint : Anti-shark cage. You go inside the cage? [ Hooper nods ]
Quint : Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark. [ sings ]
Quint : Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again.
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Quint : Front, bow. Back, stern. If ya don't get it right, squirt, I throw your ass out the little round window on the side.
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Ellen Brody : Martin hates boats. Martin hates water. Martin... Martin sits in his car when we go on the ferry to the mainland. I guess it's a childhood thing. It's a... there's a clinical name for it isn't there?
Brody : Drowning.
Brody : Drowning.
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Pratt : [ to Hooper ] Ya know, I'm gonna stuff your friggin' head in there, man, and find out if it's a man-eater, all right?
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Mayor Vaughn : Any special questions?
Denherder : Uh, is that $3000 bounty on the shark in cash or check? [ the townspeople laugh ]
Mrs. Taft : I don't think that's funny. I don't think that's funny at all, I'm sorry.
Denherder : Uh, is that $3000 bounty on the shark in cash or check? [ the townspeople laugh ]
Mrs. Taft : I don't think that's funny. I don't think that's funny at all, I'm sorry.
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Hooper : Ah. Just like I thought... He came up with the Gulf Stream - from southern waters. [ he pulls a Louisiana license plate from the shark. Brody examines it ]
Brody : He didn't eat a car, did he?
Hooper : Naw, a tiger shark's like a garbage can, it'll eat anything. Someone probably threw that in a river.
Brody : He didn't eat a car, did he?
Hooper : Naw, a tiger shark's like a garbage can, it'll eat anything. Someone probably threw that in a river.
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Brody : What are you doing out there? These are your people - go and talk to them.
Hendricks : Those aren't my people. They're from all over the place. Did you see all the license plates out in the parking lot? Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey... I'm all by myself out there.
Hendricks : Those aren't my people. They're from all over the place. Did you see all the license plates out in the parking lot? Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey... I'm all by myself out there.
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Quint : [ Poking fun at Brody ] Ah, the missus, Chief. If they don't like you going out, they'll love you comin' in.
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[ as Brody sends the air tanks flying ]
Hooper : Dammit, Martin! This is compressed air!
Brody : Well, what the hell kind of a knot was that?
Hooper : You pulled the wrong one. You screw around with these tanks, and they're gonna blow up!
Quint : Yeah, that's real fine expensive gear you brought out here, Mr. Hooper. 'Course I don't know what that bastard shark's gonna do with it, might eat it I suppose. Seen one eat a rockin' chair one time. Hey chieffy, next time you just ask me which line to pull, right?
Hooper : Dammit, Martin! This is compressed air!
Brody : Well, what the hell kind of a knot was that?
Hooper : You pulled the wrong one. You screw around with these tanks, and they're gonna blow up!
Quint : Yeah, that's real fine expensive gear you brought out here, Mr. Hooper. 'Course I don't know what that bastard shark's gonna do with it, might eat it I suppose. Seen one eat a rockin' chair one time. Hey chieffy, next time you just ask me which line to pull, right?
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Brody : Take this stuff back to the office and get to work on those signs. "Beaches Closed - No Swimming. By the Order of the Amity PD". And let Polly do the printing.
Hendricks : What's the matter with my printing?
Brody : Let Polly do the printing.
Hendricks : What's the matter with my printing?
Brody : Let Polly do the printing.
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Mayor Vaughn : I'm only trying to say that Amity is a summer town. We need summer dollars. Now, if the people can't swim here, they'll be glad to swim at the beaches of Cape Cod, the Hamptons, Long Island...
Brody : That doesn't mean we have to serve them up as smörgåsbord!
Brody : That doesn't mean we have to serve them up as smörgåsbord!
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