Jaws Quotes (1975)

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Ellen Brody See the kids?
Martin Brody They must be in the backyard.
Ellen Brody In Amity, you say 'yahd.'
Martin Brody There in the yahd, not too fah from the cah. How's that?
Ellen Brody Like you're from New York.
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Mayor Larry Vaughn Martin, it's all psychological. You yell barracuda, everybody says, 'Huh? What?' You yell shark, and we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.
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Sam Quint This shark, swallow you whole. A little shakin', a little tenderizing and down ya' go.
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Mayor Larry Vaughn Look, 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 Larry Vaughn I don't think either one of you are familiar with our problems!
Matt 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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Matt Hooper 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.
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Sam Quint Ah, the missus, Chief. If they don't like you going out, they'll love you comin' in.
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Matt Hooper I think he's come back for his noon feeding.
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Sam Quint 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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Mayor Larry 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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Sam 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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Mayor Larry Vaughn 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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Christine "Chrissie" Watkins Come on into the water!
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Martin Brody That's some bad hat, Harry.
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Martin Brody I used to hate the water.
Matt Hooper I can't imagine why.
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Sam Quint Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.
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Matt Hooper You were on the Indianapolis?
Martin Brody What happened?
Sam Quint Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
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Martin Brody What day is this?
Matt Hooper It's Wednesday... eh, it's Tuesday, I think.
Martin Brody Think the tide's with us?
Matt Hooper Keep kicking.
Martin Brody I used to hate the water...
Matt Hooper I can't imagine why.
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Mayor Larry Vaughn And what did you say the name of this shark is?
Matt Hooper It's a Carcharodon carcharias. It's a Great White
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Sam Quint You have city hands, Mr. Hooper. You been countin' money all your life.
Matt Hooper All right, all right. Hey, I don't need this... I don't need this working-class-hero crap.
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Martin Brody Is it true that most people get attacked by sharks in three feet of water about ten feet from the beach?
Matt Hooper Yeah.
Martin Brody And that... and that happened 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?
Matt Hooper That's right.
Martin Brody Now this shark that... that... that swims alone...
Matt Hooper Rogue.
Martin Brody What's it called?
Matt Hooper Rogue.
Martin 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?
Matt Hooper It's called "territoriality". It's just a theory that I happen to... agree with.
Martin 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?
Martin Brody I can do anything; I'm the chief of police.
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Matt Hooper Come on Martin! Move, move, move!
Martin Brody I'm not going out there!
Matt Hooper Beyond the edge of the barrels, go to the end of the barrels! Further out!
Martin Brody What?
Matt Hooper Further out!
Martin Brody Why?
Matt Hooper Go further out!
Martin Brody What for?
Matt Hooper Will you go to the end of the pulpit, please?
Martin Brody What?
Matt Hooper Will you just please go to the end of the pulpit!
Martin Brody What for?
Matt Hooper I need to have something in the foreground to give it some scale.
Martin Brody Foreground, my ass!
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Sam Quint Show me the way to go home. I'm tired and I wanna go to bed. And I had a little drink about an hour ago and it went right to my head.
Martin Brody Show me the way to go home. I'm tired and I wanna go to bed. And I had a little drink about an hour ago and it went right to my head.
Matt Hooper Show me the way to go home. I'm tired and I wanna go to bed. And I had a little drink about an hour ago and it went right to my head.
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Martin Brody You're gonna need a bigger boat.
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Matt Hooper I got no spit.
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Sam Quint Come on Chief, this isn't no boy scout picnic. See ya' got ya' rubbers!
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Sam Quint Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women.
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Martin Brody "Slow ahead." I can go slow ahead. Come on down here and chum some of this shit.
  • In today's dollars
    Domestic $260,000,000
    Foreign +210,653,000
  • = total worldwide gross $470,653,000
  • - a reported budget of $7,000,000
  • = a 6,623.6% net profit of $463,653,000
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