Roy Scheider movie quotes

View Quote "Slow ahead." I can go slow ahead. Come on down here and chum some of this shit. [the shark suddenly appears, causing Brody to recoil in shock] You're gonna need a bigger boat. Note: the bolded line is ranked #35 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

View Quote I'm tellin' ya, the crime rate in New York will kill ya. There's so many problems, you never feel like you're accomplishing anything. Violence, rip-offs, muggings. The kids can't leave the house. You gotta walk 'em 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.

View Quote [to his son] Come here. Give us a kiss...'Cause I need it.

View Quote Dave Bowman: You see, something's going to happen. You must leave.
Dr. Floyd: What? What's going to happen?
Dave Bowman (reverently): Something wonderful.
Dr. Floyd: What?
Dave Bowman: I understand how you feel. You see, it's all very clear to me now. The whole thing. It's wonderful.

View Quote Dr. Walter Curnow: Look at it closely. Tell me I'm nuts. Are those cloud formations going toward the spot?
Dr. Floyd: You're not nuts.
Dr. Vasili Orlov: It looks like the thing is eating the planet.
Dr. Floyd: I think it is.
Dr. Walter Curnow: It's reproducing exactly like a virus!

View Quote Dimitri Moiseivitch: Neatness! It's a good quality! You'll make someone a fine wife! You are Dr. Heywood Floyd?
Heywood Floyd: Who the hell are you?
Dimitri Moiseivitch: I'm Moiseivitch. I'm here to discuss your problem.

View Quote [luring the shark towards a power cable] All right, you big bastard! Come on! I've got something for ya now! That's it! Attaboy, come on! Right over here! Open wide! OPEN WIDE! SAY AAH!

View Quote Brody: I know that dolphins communicate. I mean, they send signals. You don't think that if a shark was destroyed, that another shark could, could come and--
Dr. Elkins: Sharks don't take things personally, Mr. Brody.

View Quote Brody: Hendricks. I want to go over your reports and your Form 908.
Hendricks: [after they go into Brody's office] what the hell's a 908?
Brody: It means, "Get me out of there."

View Quote Scanlon: You wanna tell me where I'm going?
Vinnie: I swear to Christ I don't know.

View Quote Scanlon: We're carrying three cases each. One is enough to blow out your fire, six cases will blow out the whole field. That means you don't think all the trucks will make it, one of us is a backup.
"Serrano": We want double, and legal residence... or we don't drive.
Corlette: You leave in four hours.

View Quote Corlette: [observing Scanlon's truck-driving technique] Teamsters?
Scanlon: Greyhound.

View Quote Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle: You dumbass.
Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: How the hell was I supposed to know he had a knife.
Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle: Never trust a ****.
Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: He could have been white.
Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle: Never trust anyone.

View Quote Walt Simonson: Buddy, here's the warrant. The court order's in there for the wiretap, the judge gave you 60 days on it. Tell Doyle that Mulderig and Klein will sit in for the Feds. They'll make all the buys. Be sure you keep them informed of everything that goes down. [to Mulderig] You know Doyle, don't you, Bill?
Bill Mulderig: Yeah, I know Popeye. His brilliant hunches cost the life of a good cop.
Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: Hey look, if this is the way you're coming in on this, why don't you stay home and save us all a lot of grief?
Bill Mulderig: Because that's my opinion!
Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: Shove it up your ass.
[Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo leaves.]
Walt Simonson: Hey Bill, look, do me a favor, give him a chance. He came in here with a little piece of information. I know you worked with him before and had a little trouble but don't get off on the wrong foot, if you have problems, come to me with them, I'll handle it.
Bill Mulderig: I don't want to get off on the wrong foot, Simonson, just keep him off my back.
Walt Simonson: Just cool it with him. If you have any problems, come to me, I'll handle it. Do me this favor.
Bill Mulderig: I'll be happy to work with him.
Walt Simonson: Okay, he's a good cop, he's basically a good cop, he's got good hunches every once in awhile.
Bill Mulderig: Fine, fine, fine, just keep him off my back.

View Quote Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: What was the weight of the car when you got it, Irv?
Mechanic Irving Abrahams: (reading the weight written down) Forty seven hundred ninty five pounds.
Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: (surprised when he reads the owners manual) You sure?
Mechanic Irving Abrahams: That's what it was, 4,795 pounds when it came into the shop.
Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: Owners manual says four thousand six hundred seventy-five, that's a hundred twenty pounds overweight. (reading additional paperwork from the car's transit from Marseilles) And when it was booked in to Marseilles it was four seven nine five, that's still a hundred twenty pounds overweight, Jimmy's gotta be right!
Mechanic Irving Abrahams: Listen, I ripped everything out of there except the rocker panels.
Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle: (angry at this oversight) Come on, Irv, what the hell is that?