Jaws Quotes
Quint : [ On radio ] Your husband's all right, Mrs. Brody. He's fishing. He's just caught a couple of stripers. We'll bring 'em in for dinner. We won't be long, we haven't seen anything yet. Over and out.
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Brody : [ Drunk ] I'm tellin' ya, the crime rate in New York'll kill you. There's so many problems, you never feel like you're accomplishing anything. Violence, rip-offs, muggings... kids can't leave the house - you gotta walk them to school. But in Amity one man can make a difference. In twenty-five years, there's never been a shooting or a murder in this town.
Hooper : Fascinating. Want a pretzel?
Brody : Where are we?
Hooper : Fascinating. Want a pretzel?
Brody : Where are we?
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Brody : Yeah, but I'm not drunk enough to go out on a boat.
Hooper : Yes, you are.
Brody : No, I'm not.
Hooper : Yes, you are.
Brody : I can't do that.
Hooper : Yes, you can.
Hooper : Yes, you are.
Brody : No, I'm not.
Hooper : Yes, you are.
Brody : I can't do that.
Hooper : Yes, you can.
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[ about to go looking for the shark ]
Brody : On the water?
Hooper : Well, if we're looking for a shark we're not gonna find him on the land.
Brody : On the water?
Hooper : Well, if we're looking for a shark we're not gonna find him on the land.
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Quint : [ as he spots Hooper sitting on the deck playing solitaire ] Stop playin' with yourself, Hooper.
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Quint : [ referring to a cut on Brody's head ] Chief... don't you worry about it, Chief. It won't be permanent. Wanna see somethin' permanent, boom-boom-boom? [ Quint pulls out a false front tooth and laughs ]
Quint : Hey, Hoop, you wanna feel somethin' permanent? You just put your hand underneath my cap... and you just feel that little lump. Knock an ole un, St. Paddy's day, Boston.
Hooper : I got that beat.
Hooper : [ to Brody ] I got that beat.
Quint : Hey, Hoop, you wanna feel somethin' permanent? You just put your hand underneath my cap... and you just feel that little lump. Knock an ole un, St. Paddy's day, Boston.
Hooper : I got that beat.
Hooper : [ to Brody ] I got that beat.
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Quint : You wanna drink? Drink to your leg.
Hooper : I'll drink to your leg.
Quint : Okay, so we drink to our legs! [ both laugh ]
Hooper : I'll drink to your leg.
Quint : Okay, so we drink to our legs! [ both laugh ]
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Hooper : [ points to a scar on chest ] Mary Ellen Moffat. She broke my heart. [ Hooper, Brody and Quint all laugh ]
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Hooper : [ singing ] Show me the way to go home / I'm tired and I want to go to bed...
Hooper, Quint, Brody : [ all singing together ] I had a little drink about an hour ago and it got right to my head / Wherever I may roam / by land or sea or foam...
Hooper, Quint, Brody : [ all singing together ] I had a little drink about an hour ago and it got right to my head / Wherever I may roam / by land or sea or foam...
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Hooper : [ trying to get the fishing line secure ] It may be a marlin or a stingray... but it's definitely a game fish. [ Hooper pulls as the lines snaps and he crashes his head into the wall ]
Quint : [ picking up the line ] Gamin' fish, eh? Marlin? Stingray? Bit through this piano wire? Don't you tell me my business again! You get back on the bridge...
Hooper : Quint, that doesn't prove a damn thing!
Quint : Well it proves one thing, Mr. Hooper. It proves that you wealthy college boys don't have the education enough to admit when you're wrong. [ Quint enters the cabin as Hooper makes faces at him ]
Brody : [ following Quint inside the boat ] What's the point? Hooks and lines...
Quint : [ slams on the roof at Hooper ] Hooper! 12 minutes south south east now, full throttle!
Hooper : [ Mocking Pirate Voice ] Aye, aye, sir! AYE JIMBOY ARAGHHH!
Quint : [ to Brody ] See what I do, Chief, is I trick 'em to the surface. And I jab at 'em. I'm not gonna haul 'em up like a lot of catfish. [ slams on the roof ]
Quint : Hooper, full throttle!
Hooper : [ voice imitating W. C. Fields ] I don't have to take this abuse much longer!
Quint : [ picking up the line ] Gamin' fish, eh? Marlin? Stingray? Bit through this piano wire? Don't you tell me my business again! You get back on the bridge...
Hooper : Quint, that doesn't prove a damn thing!
Quint : Well it proves one thing, Mr. Hooper. It proves that you wealthy college boys don't have the education enough to admit when you're wrong. [ Quint enters the cabin as Hooper makes faces at him ]
Brody : [ following Quint inside the boat ] What's the point? Hooks and lines...
Quint : [ slams on the roof at Hooper ] Hooper! 12 minutes south south east now, full throttle!
Hooper : [ Mocking Pirate Voice ] Aye, aye, sir! AYE JIMBOY ARAGHHH!
Quint : [ to Brody ] See what I do, Chief, is I trick 'em to the surface. And I jab at 'em. I'm not gonna haul 'em up like a lot of catfish. [ slams on the roof ]
Quint : Hooper, full throttle!
Hooper : [ voice imitating W. C. Fields ] I don't have to take this abuse much longer!
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Quint : Hooper, what exactly can you do with these things of yours?
Hooper : Well, I think I can pump 20 cc's of strictnine nitrate into him, if I can get close enough.
Quint : Can you get this little needle through his skin?
Hooper : No, I can't do that. But if I can get him close enough to this cage, I think that I can get him in the mouth or the eye...
Brody : That shark will rip that cage to pieces!
Hooper : [ shouting ] YOU GOT ANY BETTER SUGGESTIONS?
Hooper : Well, I think I can pump 20 cc's of strictnine nitrate into him, if I can get close enough.
Quint : Can you get this little needle through his skin?
Hooper : No, I can't do that. But if I can get him close enough to this cage, I think that I can get him in the mouth or the eye...
Brody : That shark will rip that cage to pieces!
Hooper : [ shouting ] YOU GOT ANY BETTER SUGGESTIONS?
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Ellen Brody : You see the kids?
Brody : [ looking out the window ] They must be in the back yard.
Ellen Brody : In Amity, you say "yahd".
Brody : [ starting out of the bedroom, speaking with a bad New-England accent ] They're in the "yahd", not too "fah" from the "cah". [ looks back at Ellen ]
Brody : How's that?
Ellen Brody : Like you're from New York.
Brody : [ looking out the window ] They must be in the back yard.
Ellen Brody : In Amity, you say "yahd".
Brody : [ starting out of the bedroom, speaking with a bad New-England accent ] They're in the "yahd", not too "fah" from the "cah". [ looks back at Ellen ]
Brody : How's that?
Ellen Brody : Like you're from New York.
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Mrs. Kintner : Chief Brody?
Brody : Yes? [ Mrs. Kintner slaps Brody and sobs ]
Mrs. Kintner : I just found out, that a girl got killed here last week, and you knew it! You knew there was a shark out there! You knew it was dangerous! But you let people go swimming anyway? You knew all those things! But still my boy is dead now. And there's nothing you can do about it. My boy is dead. I wanted you to know that. [ Mrs. Kintner walks away ]
Mayor Vaughn : I'm sorry, Martin. She's wrong.
Brody : No, she's not.
Brody : Yes? [ Mrs. Kintner slaps Brody and sobs ]
Mrs. Kintner : I just found out, that a girl got killed here last week, and you knew it! You knew there was a shark out there! You knew it was dangerous! But you let people go swimming anyway? You knew all those things! But still my boy is dead now. And there's nothing you can do about it. My boy is dead. I wanted you to know that. [ Mrs. Kintner walks away ]
Mayor Vaughn : I'm sorry, Martin. She's wrong.
Brody : No, she's not.
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Quint : I'm not talkin' 'bout pleasure boatin' or day sailin'. I'm talkin' 'bout workin' for a livin'. I'm talkin' 'bout sharkin'!
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Brody : [ to Mayor Vaughn, after the shark attack on July Fourth ] Larry, the summer is over. You're the mayor of "shark city". These people think you want the beaches open.
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Hooper : Mr. Vaughn, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks, and that's all. Now, why don't you take a long, close look at this sign. [ refers to the graffitied billboard ]
Hooper : Those proportions are correct.
Mayor Vaughn : Love to prove that, wouldn't ya? Get your name into the National Geographic.
Hooper : Those proportions are correct.
Mayor Vaughn : Love to prove that, wouldn't ya? Get your name into the National Geographic.
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[ Brody sees his son sitting in a small skiff, and yells for him to get out of it ]
Ellen Brody : Martin, it's his birthday tomorrow!
Brody : I don't want him out on the water!
Ellen Brody : He is not out on the water, he is in a boat! He's not going to go in the water! I don't think he'll ever go in again after what happened yesterday.
Brody : Now don't say that. You know I don't want that. I just want him to read the boating regulations, make sure he understands before he takes it out... [ while he talks, Ellen flips through the book on sharks he has been reading, and sees an old painting of a shark ramming a hole into the bottom of rowboat's hull ]
Ellen Brody : [ slams the book shut ] Michael! Did you hear your father? Out of the water now! NOW!
Ellen Brody : Martin, it's his birthday tomorrow!
Brody : I don't want him out on the water!
Ellen Brody : He is not out on the water, he is in a boat! He's not going to go in the water! I don't think he'll ever go in again after what happened yesterday.
Brody : Now don't say that. You know I don't want that. I just want him to read the boating regulations, make sure he understands before he takes it out... [ while he talks, Ellen flips through the book on sharks he has been reading, and sees an old painting of a shark ramming a hole into the bottom of rowboat's hull ]
Ellen Brody : [ slams the book shut ] Michael! Did you hear your father? Out of the water now! NOW!
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Hooper : I got the creme de la creme. Right here. Hold on. Yeah, you see that? [ takes off his t-shirt, showing a very hairy chest ]
Brody : You're wearing a sweater!
Brody : You're wearing a sweater!
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Quint : [ singing ] Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so never more shall we see you again.
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Hooper : [ to Brody ] 'Scuse me. You know those eight guys in the fantail launch out there? Well, none of 'em are gonna make it out of the harbor alive.
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Hooper : [ on telephone ] Doctor, there is no need for me to come to Brisbane, when I have a great white shark right here!
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Ellen Brody : I just want to know one thing - when do I get to become an islander?
Mrs. Taft : Ellen, never, never! You're not born here, you're not an islander, that's it.
Mrs. Taft : Ellen, never, never! You're not born here, you're not an islander, that's it.
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Mr. Taft : Why do you insist on playing the heavy all of the time?
Mrs. Taft : Look, I have a point of view and I think it speaks for many of the people here. It's not only me because I have the motel - how do you feel?
Mr. Hassett : Oh, I hope they don't close the beaches! [ Mrs. Taft nods in agreement ]
Mrs. Taft : Look, I have a point of view and I think it speaks for many of the people here. It's not only me because I have the motel - how do you feel?
Mr. Hassett : Oh, I hope they don't close the beaches! [ Mrs. Taft nods in agreement ]
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Brody : I just- I just want to tell you what we're planning so far...
Meadows : What about the beaches, Chief?
Brody : We're going to put on the extra- the extra summer deputies as quickly as possible, and then we're going to try and use, uh, shark-spotters on the beach.
Mrs. Taft : [ cuts him off ] Are you going to close the beaches?
Brody : [ after brief pause ] Yes, we are. [ townspeople erupt into dismayed argument ]
Meadows : What about the beaches, Chief?
Brody : We're going to put on the extra- the extra summer deputies as quickly as possible, and then we're going to try and use, uh, shark-spotters on the beach.
Mrs. Taft : [ cuts him off ] Are you going to close the beaches?
Brody : [ after brief pause ] Yes, we are. [ townspeople erupt into dismayed argument ]
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