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Jaws (film) Quotes

Jaws (film) is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Jaws stopped airing in 1970.

It features Richard D. Zanuck; David Brown as producer, John Williams in charge of musical score, and Bill Butler (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Jaws (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Jaws (film) is 124 minutes long. Jaws (film) is distributed by Universal Pictures.

Jaws (film) Quotes

  • (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."
  • (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) "The height and weight of the victim can only be estimated from the partial remains."
  • (Hooper) "The torso has been severed in mid-thorax; there are no major organs remaining --"
  • (Hooper) "Right arm has been severed above the elbow with massive tissue loss in the upper musculature -- partially denuded bone remaining --"
  • (Hooper) "This was no boat accident."
  • (Hooper) "Did you notify the Coast Guard about this?"
  • (Brody) "No. It was only local jurisdiction."
  • (Hooper) "The left arm, head, shoulders, sternum and portions of the rib cage are intact --"
  • (Hooper) "Do not smoke in here, thank you very much."
  • (Hooper) "This is what happens. It indicates the non-frenzied feeding of a large squalus; possibly Longimanus or Isurus glauca. Now -- the enormous amount of tissue loss prevents any detailed analysis; however the attacking squalus must be considerably larger than any normal squalus found in these waters. Didn't you get on a boat and check out these waters?"
  • (Brody) "No."
  • (Hooper) "Well, this is not a boat accident. And it wasn't any propeller; and it wasn't any coral reef; and it wasn't Jack the Ripper. It was a shark."
  • (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."
  • (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."
  • (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."
  • (Hooper) "I got the creme de la creme. Right here. Hold on. Yeah, you see that?"
  • (Brody) "You're wearing a sweater."
  • (Hooper) "I'm not going to waste my time arguing with a man who's lining up to be a hot lunch."
  • (Quint) "Sonuvabitch."
  • (Ellen Brody) "Quint?"
  • (Brody) "Colorful, isn't he?"
  • (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."
  • (Brody) "What's that one?"
  • (Quint) "What?"
  • (Brody) "That one, there, on your arm."
  • (Quint) "Oh, uh, that's a tattoo, I got that removed."
  • (Hooper) "Don't tell me, don't tell me -- "Mother.""
  • (Hooper) "What is it --"
  • (Quint) "Mr. Hooper, that's the USS Indianapolis."
  • (Hooper) "You were on the Indianapolis?"
  • (Brody) "What happened?"
  • (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 twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by lookin' 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. Heh."
  • (Quint) "They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. Y'know, it's -- kinda like ol' squares in a battle like, uh, you see in a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was, shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin', and sometimes the shark'd go away -- sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y'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 livin' -- until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then -- oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the ocean turns red, and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they -- rip you to pieces."
  • (Quint) "Y'know, by the end of that first dawn -- lost a hundred men. I dunno how many sharks. Maybe a thousand. I dunno how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland- baseball player, boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up -- bobbed up and 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. Young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and come in low and three hours later, a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. Y'know, that was the time I was most frightened, waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water, three hundred sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945."
  • (Quint) "Anyway -- we delivered the bomb."
  • (Mayor Vaughn) "And what did you say the name of this shark is?"
  • (Hooper) "It's a carcaradon carcharias. It's a Great White"
  • (Hendricks) "So then Denherder and Charlie sat there trying to catch their breath; and to figure out how to tell Charlie's wife what happened to her freezer full of meat."
  • (Brody) "That's not funny. That's not funny at all."
  • (Quint) "Excuse me, chief."
  • (Brody) "Ah, that GREAT. THAT'S JUST GREAT. WHERE THE HELL ARE WE NOW, HUH? YOU'RE CERTIFIABLE, QUINT, YOU KNOW THAT? YOU'RE CERTIFIABLE."
  • (Quint) "Yeah, yeah, yeah --"
  • (Brody) "You're certifiable, Quint. You know that?"
  • (Quint) "Yeah, yeah, yeah --"
  • (Quint) "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh."
  • (Artist) "Sh-Shark. The shark. He's going into the pond. The shark's in the estuary."
  • (Brody) "Now what?"
  • (Ellen Brody) "Michael's in the pond."
  • (Artist) "In the estuary. The shark's in the pond. He's going in the pond. Somebody do something. In the pond. In the pond. Shark. In the pond."
  • (Hooper) "'Scuse me. You know those eight guys in the fantail launch out there? Well, none of 'em are gonna get out of the harbor alive."
  • (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."
  • (Quint) "Hooper ya idiot. Starboard. Ain't you watchin' it?"
  • (Quint) "Pump it out Chief."
  • (Quint) "Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him."
  • (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) "Are you going to close the beaches?"
  • (Brody) "Yes, we are."
  • (Brody) "You're gonna need a bigger boat."
  • (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?"
  • (Michael Brody) "Aw, dad, the pond's for old ladies."
  • (Brody) "I know it is. But just do it for the old man, will ya?"
  • (Ellen Brody) "Wanna get drunk and fool around?"
  • (Brody) "Oh Yeah."
  • (Hooper) "He ate the light."
  • (Tom Cassidy) "What's your name again?"
  • (Christine 'Chrissie' Watkins) "Chrissie."
  • (Tom Cassidy) "Where are we going?"
  • (Christine 'Chrissie' Watkins) "Swimming"
  • (Hooper) "Ha, ha; they're all gonna die."
  • (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."
  • (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."
  • (Hooper) "Come on Martin. Move, move, move."
  • (Brody) "I'm not going out there."
  • (Hooper) "Beyond the edge of the barrels, go to the end of the barrels. Further out."
  • (Brody) "What?"
  • (Hooper) "Further out."
  • (Brody) "Why?"
  • (Hooper) "Go further out."
  • (Brody) "What for?"
  • (Hooper) "Will you go to the end of the pulpit, please?"
  • (Brody) "What?"
  • (Hooper) "Will you just please go to the end of the pulpit."
  • (Brody) "What for?"
  • (Hooper) "I need to have something in the foreground to give it some scale."
  • (Brody) "Foreground, my ass."
  • (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."
  • (Hooper) "It may be a marlin or a stingray -- but it's definitely a game fish."
  • (Quint) "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."
  • (Brody) "What's the point? Hooks and lines --"
  • (Quint) "Hooper. 12 minutes south south east now, full throttle."
  • (Hooper) "Aye, aye, sir. AYE JIMBOY ARAGHHH."
  • (Quint) "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."
  • (Quint) "Hooper, full throttle."
  • (Hooper) "I don't have to take this abuse much longer."
  • (Quint) "Hooper, what exactly can you do with these things of yours?"
  • (Hooper) "Well, I think I can pump 20 cc's of strychnine 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) "YOU GOT ANY BETTER SUGGESTIONS?"
  • (Out of Towner) "Yeah, well, but what kind? What kind of shark?"
  • (Hooper) "It's a tiger shark."
  • (Out of Towner) "A what?"
  • (Quint) "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?"
  • (Hooper) "Doctor, there is no need for me to come to Brisbane, when I have a great white shark right here."
  • (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."
  • (Quint) "This shark, swallow you whole."
  • (Quint) "Stop playin' with yourself, Hooper."
  • (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 --"
  • (Ellen Brody) "Michael. Did you hear your father? Out of the water now. NOW."
  • (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."
  • (Hooper) "Those proportions are correct."
  • (Mayor Vaughn) "Love to prove that, wouldn't ya? Get your name into the National Geographic."
  • (Ellen Brody) "You see the kids?"
  • (Brody) "They must be in the back yard."
  • (Ellen Brody) "In Amity, you say "yahd"."
  • (Brody) "They're in the "yahd", not too "fah" from the "cah"."
  • (Brody) "How's that?"
  • (Ellen Brody) "Like you're from New York."
  • (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."
  • (Hooper) "That's a twenty footer."
  • (Quint) "Twenty-five. Three tons of him."
  • (Quint) "You wanna drink? Drink to your leg."
  • (Hooper) "I'll drink to your leg."
  • (Quint) "Okay, so we drink to our legs."
  • (Quint) "Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women."
  • (Quint) "Chief -- don't you worry about it, Chief. It won't be permanent. Wanna see somethin' permanent, boom-boom-boom?"
  • (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) "I got that beat."
  • (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."
  • (Quint) "Come on Chief, this isn't no boy scout picnic. See ya' got ya' rubbers."
  • (Hooper) "Fast fish."
  • (Quint) "HOOPER. REVERSE IT."
  • (Mayor Vaughn) "Any special questions?"
  • (Denherder) "Uh, is that $3000 bounty on the shark in cash or check?"
  • (Mrs. Taft) "I don't think that's funny. I don't think that's funny at all, I'm sorry."
  • (Brody) "Smile, you son of a BITCH."
  • (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. $10,000 for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing."
  • (Quint) "Break it up will ya', Chief. Daylight's wastin'."
  • (Unnamed) "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?"
  • (Unnamed) "Oh, I hope they don't close the beaches."
  • (Brody) "I don't believe it. Two barrels, and he's going down again."
  • (Brody) "On the water?"
  • (Hooper) "Well, if we're looking for a shark we're not gonna find him on the land."
  • (Mayor 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"."
  • (Hooper) "Ah. Just like I thought -- He came up with the Gulf Stream; from southern waters."
  • (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."
  • (Quint) "I'm not talkin' 'bout pleasure boatin' or day sailin'. I'm talkin' 'bout workin' for a livin'. I'm talkin' 'bout sharkin'."
  • (Pratt) "Ya know, I'm gonna stuff your friggin' head in there, man, and find out if it's a man-eater, all right?"
  • (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) ""Slow ahead." I can go slow ahead. Come on down here and chum some of this s***."
  • (Quint) "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) "Ah, the missus, Chief. If they don't like you going out, they'll love you comin' in."
  • (Ellen Brody) "What am I going to tell the kids?"
  • (Brody) "Tell them I'm going fishing."
  • (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."
  • (Ellen Brody) "My husband tells me you're in sharks."

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