Jaws (1975) quotes
Director
Steven Spielberg.
Cast
Roy Scheider.
Robert Shaw.
Richard Dreyfuss.
When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and a grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.
Here’s to swimmin’ with bow-legged women.
– Quint
This shark, swallow you whole.
– Quint
My husband tells me you’re in sharks.
– Ellen Brody
Smile, you son of a BITCH!
– Brody
You’re gonna need a bigger boat.
– Brody
I don’t believe it! Two barrels, and he’s going down again!
– Brody
Come on into the water!
– Christine ‘Chrissie’ Watkins
Ha, ha – they’re all gonna die.
– Hooper
I’m not going to waste my time arguing with a man who’s lining up to be a hot lunch.
– Hooper
That’s some bad hat, Harry.
– Brody
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.
– Quint
Boys, oh boys… I think he’s come back for his noon feeding.
– Hooper
This was no boat accident.
– Hooper
Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him.
– Quint
Hooper ya idiot. Starboard. Ain’t you watchin’ it?
– Quint
Fast fish.
– Hooper
He ate the light.
– Hooper
[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.
– 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.
– Quint
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.
– Mayor Vaugh
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.
– Mayor Vaughn
“Slow ahead.” I can go slow ahead. Come on down here and chum some of this shit.
– Brody