Jaws quotes

65 total quotes

Chief Martin Brody
Matt Hooper
Mayor Larry Vaughn
Multiple Characters
Quint

View Quote Ellen: Martin, it's his birthday tomorrow.
Brody: I don't want him on the ocean.
Ellen: 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: 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..
[While Brody is talking, Ellen glances into the shark book with an illustration of a shark biting the side of a rowboat.]
Ellen: Michael! Did you hear your father? Out of the water now! NOW!

View Quote Don't you tell me my business again.

View Quote [Brody is reading about sharks, when his wife startles him]
Ellen: Oh, you scared me.
Brody: People don't even know how old sharks are, I mean, if they live two - three thousand years...They don't know.
Ellen: Why don't you put that away? Wanna get drunk and fool around?
Brody: Oh yeah.

View Quote Brody: We're gonna put on the summer, the extra summer deputies as soon as possible. And then we're gonna try and use shark spotters on the beach.
Motel Owner: Are we going to close the beaches?
Brody: [after a long pause] Yes, we are. [There is loud grumbling in the audience.] We're also planning to bring in some experts from the Oceanographic Institute on the mainland.
Vaughn: Only 24 hours.
Brody: I didn't agree to that.

View Quote What I am saying is that it may not be the shark. It's just a slight - it's a difference in semantics that I don't want to get beaten up for.

View Quote Quint: Hooper, what exactly can you do with these things of yours?
Hooper: Well, I think I can pump around 20 cc's of strychnine nitrate into him, that is if I can get close enough.
Quint: 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 tear that cage to pieces!
Hooper: YOU GOT ANY BETTER SUGGESTIONS?

View Quote All right fellas, let's cut this ugly son-of-a-bitch down before it stinks up the whole island. Harv, you and Carl take it out tomorrow and dump it in the drink.

View Quote 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.

View Quote Hooper, ya idiot. Starboard. Aint you watchin' it?

View Quote Smile, you son of a bitch.

View Quote [to Brody] You know those eight guys in the fantail launch out there? Well, none of 'em are gonna get out of the harbor alive.

View Quote [Poking fun at Brody] Ah, the missus, Chief. If they don't like you going out, they'll love you comin' in.

View Quote I think he ate the light.

View Quote [as he spots Hooper sitting on the deck playing solitaire] Stop playin' with yourself, Hooper.

View Quote I can do anything, I'm the chief of police.