Jaws Movie Quotes
[the three men are comparing their scars]
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."
[he roars with laughter]
Hooper
What is it...
[Quint solemnly clamps a hand on Hooper's arm]
Quint
Mr. Hooper, that's the USS Indianapolis.
[Hooper immediately stops laughing]
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.
[he pauses and takes a drink]
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.
[he pauses]
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.
[he pauses, smiles, and raises his glass]
Quint
Anyway... we delivered the bomb.
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Brody
Smile, you son of a BITCH!
[shoots at the air tank; the shark explodes]
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Brody
That's some bad hat, Harry.
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Quint
[1:11:44]
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.
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Quint
[Quint first scratches the chalk board to get everyone's attention]
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.
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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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Quint
[seeing Hooper's equipment]
What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?
[examining the shark cage]
Quint
Jesus H Christ, when I was a boy, every little squirt wanted to be a harpooner or a sword fisherman. What d'ya have there - a portable shower or a monkey cage?
Hooper
Anti-Shark cage.
Quint
Anti-shark cage. You go inside the cage?
[Hooper nods]
Quint
Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark.
[sings]
Quint
Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again.
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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.
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Quint
Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women.
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Quint
[In shark's mouth]
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!
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Quint
[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.
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Brody
"Slow ahead." I can go slow ahead. Come on down here and chum some of this shit.
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Mrs. Kintner
Chief Brody?
Brody
Yes?
[Mrs. Kintner slaps Brody and sobs]
Mrs. Kintner
I just found out, that a girl got killed here last week, and you knew it! You knew there was a shark out there! You knew it was dangerous! But you let people go swimming anyway? You knew all those things! But still my boy is dead now. And there's nothing you can do about it. My boy is dead. I wanted you to know that.
[Mrs. Kintner walks away]
Mayor Vaughn
I'm sorry, Martin. She's wrong.
Brody
No, she's not.
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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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[Hooper is examining the remains of the first victim, describing the post-mortem into his tape recorder]
Hooper
The height and weight of the victim can only be estimated from the partial remains...
[He lifts the sheet covering the remains, inhales sharply, then regains his composure]
Hooper
The torso has been severed in mid-thorax; there are no major organs remaining... May I have a glass of water, please?
Medical Examiner
Sure.
Hooper
Right arm has been severed above the elbow with massive tissue loss in the upper musculature.
[takes water]
Hooper
Thank you very much.
[sips the water and continues]
Hooper
Partially denuded bone remaining...
[to the M.E]
Hooper
This was no boating accident.
[to Brody]
Hooper
Did you notify the Coast Guard about this?
Brody
No. It was only local jurisdiction.
Hooper
[continues post-mortem]
The left arm, head, shoulders, sternum and portions of the rib cage are intact...
[Brody begins to light a cigarette]
Hooper
Do not smoke in here, thank you very much!
[lifts up the severed arm]
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.
[pulls off his glasses]
Hooper
Didn't you get on a boat and check out these waters?
Brody
No.
Hooper
Well, this is not a boat accident! It wasn't any propeller, it wasn't any coral reef, and it wasn't Jack the Ripper!
[splashes water on his face and takes a deep breath]
Hooper
It was a shark.
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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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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.
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Hooper
This was no boat accident.
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Hooper
That's a twenty footer.
Quint
Twenty-five. Three tons of him.
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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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Hooper
Hooper, Quint, Brody: [all singing together] I had a little drink about an hour ago and it got right to my head / Wherever I may roam / by land or sea or foam...
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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!
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[Brody sees his son sitting in a small skiff, and yells for him to get out of it]
Ellen Brody
Martin, it's his birthday tomorrow!
Brody
I don't want him on the ocean!
Ellen Brody
He's not on the ocean, he is in a boat! He's not gonna go in the water! I don't think he'll ever go in the water again after what happened yesterday.
Brody
All right, now don't say that. I don't want that to happen, you know that. But I want him to read the boating regulations, the rules, y'know, before he goes out on his own.
[while he talks, Ellen flips through the book on sharks he has been reading, and sees an old painting of a shark ramming a hole into the bottom of rowboat's hull]
Ellen Brody
[slams the book shut]
Michael! Did you hear your father? Out of the water now! NOW!
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Hooper
Ha, ha - they're all gonna die.
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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
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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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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Hooper
[trying to get the fishing line secure]
It may be a marlin or a stingray... but it's definitely a game fish.
[Hooper pulls as the lines snaps and he crashes his head into the wall]
Quint
[picking up the line]
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.
[Quint enters the cabin as Hooper makes faces at him]
Quint
[slams on the roof at Hooper]
Hooper! 12 minutes south south east now, full throttle!
Quint
[to Brody]
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.
[slams on the roof]
Quint
Hooper, full throttle!
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Ellen Brody
Wanna get drunk and fool around?
Brody
Oh Yeah.
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Quint
[On radio]
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.
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[Hooper, Brody and Quint all laugh]
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Hooper
Boys, oh boys... I think he's come back for his noon feeding.
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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.
[refers to the graffitied billboard]
Hooper
Those proportions are correct.
Mayor Vaughn
Love to prove that, wouldn't ya? Get your name into the National Geographic.
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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!
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Ellen Brody
What am I going to tell the kids?
Brody
Tell them I'm going fishing.
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[about to go looking for the shark]
Brody
On the water?
Hooper
Well, if we're looking for a shark we're not gonna find him on the land.
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Quint
You wanna drink? Drink to your leg.
Hooper
I'll drink to your leg.
Quint
Okay, so we drink to our legs!
[both laugh]
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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!
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Mayor Vaughn
Any special questions?
Denherder
Uh, is that $3000 bounty on the shark in cash or check?
[the townspeople laugh]
Mrs. Taft
I don't think that's funny. I don't think that's funny at all, I'm sorry.
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Mayor Vaughn
[to reporter]
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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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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Quint
[as he spots Hooper sitting on the deck playing solitaire]
Stop playin' with yourself, Hooper.
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[as Brody sends the air tanks flying]
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?
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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.
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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.
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Ellen Brody
You see the kids?
Ellen Brody
In Amity, you say "yahd".
Brody
[starting out of the bedroom, speaking with a bad New-England accent]
They're in the "yahd", not too "fah" from the "cah".
[looks back at Ellen]
Brody
How's that?
Ellen Brody
Like you're from New York.
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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!
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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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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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Ellen Brody
[upon meeting Matt Hooper]
My husband tells me you're in sharks.
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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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Quint
I'm not talkin' 'bout pleasure boatin' or day sailin'. I'm talkin' 'bout workin' for a livin'. I'm talkin' 'bout sharkin'!
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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!
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Out of Towner
Yeah, well, but what kind? What kind of shark?
[Three Out of Towners turn slowly to face Hooper]
Out of Towner
A what?
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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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Hooper
Ah. Just like I thought... He came up with the Gulf Stream - from southern waters.
[he pulls a Louisiana license plate from the shark. Brody examines it]
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.
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Quint
[Poking fun at Brody]
Ah, the missus, Chief. If they don't like you going out, they'll love you comin' in.
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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.
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Brody
[to Mayor Vaughn, after the shark attack on July Fourth]
Larry, the summer is over. You're the mayor of "shark city". These people think you want the beaches open.
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Quint
[on board the Orca]
Goddamn women today, they can't handle nothin'. Young girls just ain't quite smart... like their grandmothers were!
Ellen Brody
[on the dock]
Gotta be Quint.
Brody
Colorful, isn't he?
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Hooper
[to Brody]
'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.
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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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Quint
This shark, swallow you whole.
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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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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.
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Quint
[referring to a cut on Brody's head]
Chief... don't you worry about it, Chief. It won't be permanent. Wanna see somethin' permanent, boom-boom-boom?
[Quint pulls out a false front tooth and laughs]
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.
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Hooper
He ate the light.
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Brody
[Drunk]
I'm tellin' ya, the crime rate in New York'll kill you. There's so many problems, you never feel like you're accomplishing anything. Violence, rip-offs, muggings... kids can't leave the house - you gotta walk them to school. But in Amity one man can make a difference. In twenty-five years, there's never been a shooting or a murder in this town.
Brody
Where are we?
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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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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.
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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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Brody
I don't believe it! Two barrels, and he's going down again!
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Hooper
I got the creme de la creme. Right here. Hold on. Yeah, you see that?
[takes off his t-shirt, showing a very hairy chest]
Brody
You're wearing a sweater!
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Brody
Ten thousand dollars.
Quint
Two hundred dollars a day whether I catch him or not.
Brody
You got it.
Quint
Get the Mayor off my back so I don't have any more of this zoning crap.
Brody
You got that.
Quint
One case of apricot brandy. You buy the lunch.
Brody
Two cases!
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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
[cuts him off]
Are you going to close the beaches?
[townspeople erupt into dismayed argument]
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Hooper
[on telephone]
Doctor, there is no need for me to come to Brisbane, when I have a great white shark right here!
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Brody
You're certifiable, Quint! You know that?
Quint
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
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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.
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Mr. Taft
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?
Mr. Hassett
Oh, I hope they don't close the beaches!
[Mrs. Taft nods in agreement]
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[With the shark now dead, Brody and Hooper laugh with relief that their ordeal is over. Hooper looks around, and his laughter trails off as he realizes Quint is missing]
Hooper
Quint.
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Hooper
He's gonna go under.
Quint
I tell you he can't with three barrels on him. Not with three, he can't!
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Quint
[before leaving dock]
Break it up will ya', Chief! Daylight's wastin'.
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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!
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Brody
[to Hooper]
Well, why don't we start leading the shark into shore instead of him leading us out to sea?
[Without answering, Hooper looks at Quint, then back at Brody]
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Christine 'Chrissie' Watkins
GOD HELP ME, PLEEEAAAAASE!
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Christine 'Chrissie' Watkins
Come on into the water!
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Hooper
Did you ever have one do this before?
Quint
No.
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Quint
Mr. Hopper, attach the end of this line to the first keg. I gotta get a good shot at that porker's head. - - He's coming. He-he. He's coming. Hooper? Stay clear of the barrel. Hooper?Tie it up, will ya!
Hooper
Your turn, Quint.
Quint
Hooper, where are you? Hooper, hurry it up now. Tie it on. Hurry up, he's coming straight for us. Don't screw it up now!
Hooper
Don't wait for me.
Quint
Come on, Hooper! Hurry it up! Come on. Tie it on!
Brody
Now. Now. Kill it, quick! Kill it! Now!
Hooper
Shoot!
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Hooper
Fast fish.
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Brody
[Talking to the Mayor]
Oh, and I want you to meet Matt - Matt, this is Larry Vaughn, our Mayor - Matt's from the Oceanographic Institute!
Mayor Vaughn
Hi.
Hooper
Nice to meet you.
[Matt, pulling Brody to one side]
Hooper
Can I talk to you for a second? Martin, there are all kinds of sharks in the waters, you know - Hammerheads, White Tips, Blues, Makos and the chances that these bozos got the exact shark that killed those two people...
Hooper
Martin, it's a hundred to one, a hundred to one.
Brody
Oh, come-on!
Hooper
Now, I'm not saying that this is not the shark - it probably is, Martin, it probably is - it's a man-eater, it's extremely rare for these waters but the fact is that the bite radius on this animal is different than the wounds on the victim. I just... I want to be sure, you want to be sure - we all want to be sure, OK?, Now, what I want to do is very simple - the digestive system of this animal is very, very slow, let's cut it open - whatever it's eaten in the last twenty-four hours is bound to still be in there and then we'll be sure.
Brody
It may be the only way to confirm it, huh?
Mayor Vaughn
Now, look, fellas, let's be reasonable, huh? This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of half-arsed autopsy on a fish! And I am not going to stand here and see that thing cut open and see that little Kinter boy spill-out all over the dock!
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Pratt
[to Hooper]
Ya know, I'm gonna stuff your friggin' head in there, man, and find out if it's a man-eater, all right?
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[the three shark hunters have found the shark and are preparing to tag and kill it; Brody and Hooper are climbing over the the bow while Quint is in the cabin, taking out his harpoon gun]
Sonar Operator
[via Quint's radio]
Amity Point Light Station to Orca. This is Amity Point Light Station to Orca. Come in, Orca.
Quint
[answering; via receiver]
Orca. Come in.
Sonar Operator
[via radio cont]
I have Mrs. Martin Brody here.
Quint
Put her on.
[Shift back to Brody and Hooper; The shark is circling around the boat]
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!
[Brody stops halfway]
Hooper
Further out!
Quint
What?
Brody
Why?
Hooper
Go further out!
Brody
What for?
Hooper
Will you go to the end of the pulpit, please?
Hooper
What?
Hooper
Will you please go to the end of the pulpit!
Brody
What for?
[Scene shifts to Quint]
Quint
[rapid fire speech; into the receiver]
Your husband's all right, Mrs. Brody, he's fishin', he 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 hangs up, ending the call]
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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?
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Brody
[Amidst commotion] We're also planning to bring in some experts from the oceanographic institute on the mainland.
Mayor Vaughn
For only 24 hours!
Brody
I didn't agree to that!
Mayor Vaughn
Only 24 hours.
Extra Townswoman
24 hours is like three weeks!
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Quint
[shouting]
Hooper, ya idiot! Starboard, ain't you watchin' it?
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Denherder
Charlie, take my word for it, don't look back! Swim, Charlie! Swim!
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Tom Cassidy
I can swim! I just can't walk or undress myself.
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Quint
He can't stay down with three barrels. Not with three barrels, he can't.
Brody
What about us?
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Quint
We're headin' in, Brody.
Brody
Thank Christ!
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Brody
Got a pen, Larry?
Mayor Vaughn
Pen?
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[Hendricks has discovered the remains of a woman on the beach. Brody approaches and sees what's left of the body]
Brody
Oh, Jesus.
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Brody
[while typing up the report on Chrissy Watkins]
Polly, if this new filing system is going to work you've gotta keep that outdated stuff off my desk. Just the pending, all right?
Polly
Yes, chief. Now we got a bunch of calls about that karate school. It seems that the nine year olds from the school have been... karateing the picket fences!
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[Quint has just destroyed the boat radio with a baseball bat when Chief Brody is trying to call on the Coast Guard]
Quint
[handing the bat to Brody]
Excuse me, chief.
Brody
[shouts hysterically; slamming down the receiver and hitting the bat on the already destroyed radio]
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
[dismissively]
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
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Quint
[screaming at Hooper, while Brody wets the reel of his shark-fishing rod]
HOOPER! REVERSE IT!
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Michael Brody
Pond's for old ladies.
Brody
I know it's for the old ladies, but just do it for the old man, huh? Please?
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Hooper
He's chasing us. I don't believe it!
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Quint
Hopper, get the pump out of the locker in front you, will you?
Brody
We're gonna sink, aren't we?
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Brody
Well, what do we do now? We're quittin' right?
Quint
We've got one barrel on him. So, we stay out here till we find him again.
Brody
Yeah, but we could radio in and get a bigger boat out here.
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Quint
[from the crow's nest]
Brody? Start that chum line again, will ya!
Brody
Let Hooper take a turn.
Quint
Hooper drives the boat, Chief.
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Ellen Brody
Listen, Chief, be careful, will ya?
Brody
In this town?
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