The Big Blue Movie Quotes
Johanna
What's it feel like when you dive?
Jacques
It's a feeling of slipping without falling. The hardest thing is when you're at the bottom.
Johanna
Why?
Jacques
'Cause you have to find a good reason to come back up... and I have a hard time finding one.
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Johanna
Talk to me some more
Jacques
It's hard, you know. I don't know what else to say. You're so far away.
Johanna
Tell me a story.
Jacques
A story? Do you now how it is- do you know what you're supposed to do, to meet a mermaid?
Johanna
No.
Jacques
You go down to the bottom of the sea, where the water isn't even blue anymore, where the sky is only a memory, and you float there, in the silence. And you stay there, and you decide, that you'll die for them. Only then do they start coming out. They come, and they greet you, and they judge the love you have for them. If it's sincere, if it's pure, they'll be with you, and take you away forever.
Johanna
I like that story
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[Enzo pulls out a cigarette inside of a diving bell]
Noireuter
Smoking is absolutely forbidden.
Enzo
It isn't lit yet.
Noireuter
You shouldn't even carry cigarettes on board.
Enzo
Listen, we're not supposed to piss either, but it doesn't stop you from carrying "it" on board.
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[after getting 10.000 dollars]
Roberto
Enzo, what are you going to do with the money?
Enzo
Have the car painted.
Roberto
Guiseppe will do that for 25 dollars.
Enzo
Then tell him to wax it too.
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Enzo
Ah, I was 17! I was so in love with her, I tried to die for her. Two years later I can't even remember her name. Time, erases everything.
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Enzo
You were right.
Jacques
About what?
Enzo
It's much better down there... It's a better place...
Jacques
no...
Enzo
Push me back in the water...
Jacques
No, I couldn't...
Enzo
Jacques... Take me back down... Please...
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[after receiving $10,000]
Roberto
Enzo, really, whatcha going to do with the money?
Enzo
A rosary for mama, a dress for Angelica and you , get yourself a suit that fits. But most important.
Roberto
Yes
Enzo
Find me the Frenchman. Find me Jacques Mayol.
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Johanna
You really send him under the ice? He isn't a slave or convict or anything, is he?
Dr. Laurence
My dear, science is a cruel mistress.
Johanna
How is he going to breathe?
Dr. Laurence
He isn't.
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Enzo
Don't look at Jaques as if he was a human being, he comes from another planet.
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[after a drunken breath holding contest]
Jacques
Who won?
Johanna
Who won what? The asshole award? Let me tell you, it was a tie!
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Enzo
A thousand commanders, and we get the Belgian from Alcoholics Anonymous!
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Enzo
...So, between Mamma, Roberto and Alfredo, we yell and scream at each other all day long. Except for Angelica, she just cries. And then finally, we all end up kissing. Can you explain that to me? Because *that's* what love is all about. It's a pain in the ass, but it keeps us together.
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Jacques
I know you.
Johanna
We just met, a few minutes ago.
Jacques
In the lake.
Johanna
No in the hut.
Jacques
Then it must have been someone who looked like a lot like you.
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Jacques
I don't understand. Please explain to me.
Enzo
What do you want to know?
Jacques
Everything!
Enzo
About what?
Jacques
About everything!
Enzo
Mama mia.
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[Enzo pulls out a whiskey flask in a diving bell]
Noireuter
Is that alcohol? That's *really* forbidden!
Enzo
Hey, do you have any more complaints? Just make a list and we'll stick it on the porthole, OK?
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Enzo
Dont think of Jacques as a human being, he's from another world.
Johanna
Oh yeah? And what world are you from Enzo?
Enzo
Italia!
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Supervisor
Hey! You gotta get him outta there, fast!
Roberto
Ten thousand!
Supervisor
Lira?
Roberto
Dollars!
Supervisor
Hey, wait a minute! You guys aren't gonna try to hold me up at a time like this?
Enzo
Okay, you tell me. How much would you say a man's life is worth? In my village we have a saying. (to Roberto) How does it go again?
Roberto
I don't remember.
Supervisor
W-what's that supposed to mean?
Enzo
Forget it.
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[Waiting for Enzo]
Roberto
It's not like him to be late. Of course, sometimes he doesn't show up at all.
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Jacques
Why're you always talkin'? Y'know- you think that other people are interested in what you're talkin' about? I'M not interested, and other people aren't either! So just STOP talkin', because other people have other things to say y'know! You understand me? Stop talkin'! It's bullshit!
Enzo
She's gone?
Jacques
YES! She's gone!
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Noireuter
[high pitched]
You have enough air for fifteem minutes.
Noireuter
[high pitched]
It's nothing, maybe the helium is up too high.
Noireuter
[high pitched]
For others, yes. For you, who knows?
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Uncle Louis
[to Johana]
So, where are you from, Henrietta?
Jacques
Johana! New York!
Uncle Louis
New YORK? What KIND of a name is that?
Johanna
No, I'm *from* new York
Uncle Louis
Oh Yes! The best lays are from New York!
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[haggling with a fish vendor]
Uncle Louis
Two DOLLARS? You didn't even need to catch the fish! It died of CANCER!
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Johanna
6'3", 6'1", maybe 5'9" - You can't be sure, you know the flippers, they add height or they take it away, or something. Anyway short dark hair... Not punk or anything, just short. And the cutest smile. He wasn't smiling at me, I don't think - just smiling. And he thought he saw me in the lake. I mean that was a figure of speech... They're so romantic, the French.
Sally
[bored]
I thought you said he was Peruvian?
Johanna
Haven't you been listening?
Sally
...Since eight o'clock last night...! You're in love.
Johanna
Don't be a jerk. There's no such thing as love at first sight.
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Uncle Louis
Hey, have you ever seen a mermaid?
Young Jacques
No.
Uncle Louis
I have, you know. Don't you want to know where? Why don't you ask me?
Young Jacques
What?
Uncle Louis
Where I saw mermaids! Why don't you ever ask any questions? I'm always the one asking the questions. I'm now aware I ask the questions so now I'm talking to myself! Ask me something, goddamn it!
Young Jacques
Why did my mother leave?
Uncle Louis
Row.
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