Jaws Quotes

[the launch snags a power line]

Red: Oh, ****! Drop it!

Hendricks: Wh- What is it?

Red: Drop it! It's a power line!

Hendricks: Oh, terrific!

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Martin Brody: Better check the bite radius.

Dr. Elkins: The what?

Martin Brody: The shape of the mouth...

Dr. Elkins: Whales mouth?

Martin Brody: Shark's mouth.

Dr. Elkins: What shark?

Martin Brody: The shark that did this.

Dr. Elkins: We don't know that, do we?

Martin Brody: But we're here to find out!

Dr. Elkins: And we will.

Hendricks: I can't hear you if you're going to whisper!

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Tina Wilcox: ...Now I'm getting black and blue marks all over my butt, and my moms starting to get uptight about them!

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Martin Brody: I think we've got another shark problem.

Mayor Larry Vaughn: Are you serious?

Martin Brody: You bet I'm serious.

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Len Peterson: Brody, this is nothing! Seaweed, mud, something on the lens...

Martin Brody: Lens my ass!

Len Peterson: You're damn right it's your ass!

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[looking for a dance]

Timmy: Who are you going to ask next?

Doug: Tina Wilcox.

Timmy: Ed's girlfriend... You're crazy!

Doug: It doesn't hurt to ask. Sometimes the most beautiful girls are the loneliest.

Timmy: That's a crock of ****!

Timmy: I know!

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Martin Brody: You don't have to worry about being sued or being ruined if this turns out to be what I think it is, because there won't be anybody here!

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Martin Brody: But I'm telling you, and I'm telling everybody at this table that that's a shark! And I know what a shark looks like, because I've seen one up close. And you'd better do something about this one, because I don't intend to go through that hell again!

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Martin Brody: That boat's gonna take you in. Where the hell are they?

Hendricks: About ten degrees off your starboard bow. You take...

Martin Brody: Don't give me that ****, point!

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Hooper: I'm not going to waste my time arguing with a man who's lining up to be a hot lunch.

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Quint: This shark, swallow you whole.

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Mayor Vaughn: Fellows, let's be reasonable, huh? This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of a half-assed autopsy on a fish... And I'm not going to stand here and see that thing cut open and see that little Kintner boy spill out all over the dock.

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Mayor Vaughn: Martin, it's all psychological. You yell barracuda, everybody says, "Huh? What?" You yell shark, we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.

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Quint: [the Orca, their boat, is clearly sinking with water all over the deck, Quint hands Brody a small hand pump] Pump it out Chief!

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Hooper: [Hooper attempts to wet his mask before Quint and Brody lower him in the shark cage] I got no spit.

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Brody: Is it true that most people get attacked by sharks in three feet of water about ten feet from the beach?

Hooper: Yeah.

Brody: And that... and that before people started to swim for recreation - I mean before sharks knew what they were missing - that a lot of these attacks weren't reported?

Hooper: That's right.

Brody: Now this shark that... that... that swims alone...

Hooper: Rogue.

Brody: What's it called?

Hooper, Brody: [together] Rogue.

Brody: Rogue, yeah. Now this guy, he... he keeps swimmin' around in a place where the feeding is good until the food supply is gone, right?

Hooper: It's called "territoriality". It's just a theory that I happen to... agree with.

Brody: Then why don't we have one more drink and go down and cut that shark open?

Ellen Brody: Martin? Can you do that?

Brody: I can do anything; I'm the chief of police.

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Ben Gardner: When we get them silly bastards down in that rock pile, it'll be some fun, they'll wish their fathers had never met their mothers. When they start takin' their bottoms out and slamming into them rocks, boy! Get away from there, ya goddamn fool, you! What's the matter with you? You wanna swamp us, ya crazy son of a bitch?

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Hooper: Hello.

Ben Gardner: Hello back... young feller. How are ya? Say I hope you not going out with those nuts, are ya?

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Christine 'Chrissie' Watkins: Come on into the water!

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[first lines]

Tom Cassidy: What's your name again?

Christine 'Chrissie' Watkins: Chrissie.

Tom Cassidy: Where are we going?

Christine 'Chrissie' Watkins: Swimming

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Ellen Brody: [to Chief Brody] You told me the shark was caught. And I, I heard it on the news... I heard it on the Cape station.

Hooper: They caught A shark, not THE shark. Big difference. Not the shark that killed Chrissie Watkins... and probably not the shark that killed the little boy... which I wanted to prove today, by cutting the shark open...
[sees the Chief pouring the wine he brought]

Hooper: you know, you oughta let that breathe a little
[sees the massive glass the Chief has poured]

Hooper: - nothing, nothing!

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[last lines]

Brody: What day is this?

Hooper: It's Wednesday... eh, it's Tuesday, I think.

Brody: Think the tide's with us?

Hooper: Keep kicking.

Brody: I used to hate the water...

Hooper: I can't imagine why.

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Mayor Vaughn: And what did you say the name of this shark is?

Hooper: It's a carcaradon carcharias. It's a Great White

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Quint: [before leaving dock] Break it up will ya', Chief! Daylight's wastin'.

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Quint: [trying to hurry Brody into the boat] Come on Chief, this isn't no boy scout picnic. See ya' got ya' rubbers!
[Quint laughs wildly]

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Quint: [talking Brody through making knots] Little brown eel comes out of the cave... Swims into the hole... Comes out of the hole... Goes back into the cave again... It's not too good is it Chief?
[Refering to Brody's messed up knot]

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Hooper: He ate the light.

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Hooper: Ha, ha - they're all gonna die.

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Hooper: That's a twenty footer.

Quint: Twenty-five. Three tons of him.

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Hooper: This was no boat accident.

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