[After an alarm is sounded and an emergency dive is executed]
April fool. Practice makes perfect.
Captain
Günter Lamprecht · 18 quotes
Werner
Herbert Grönemeyer · 7 quotes
Captain Thomsen
Otto Sander · 5 quotes
2nd Watch Officer
4 quotes
Navigator Kriechbaum
Bernd Tauber · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Captain & Werner (4), Captain & Captain Thomsen (2), Captain & Navigator Kriechbaum (2)
Das Boot quotes
Page 2 of 2[Captain, looking at logbook]
Our recent triumphs: Dived to evade enemy aircraft. Lost contact. Dived to evade destroyer. Depth charged. The British have stopped making mistakes.
[escaping from the British]
They haven't spotted us! They're all snoring in their bunks! Or you know what? They're drinking in the bar! Celebrating our sinking! Not yet, my friends. Not yet!
[gives a drunken speech to the party in honor of his Knight's Cross]
A toast to our wonderful, abstaining, womanless Führer. Who rose gloriously from apprentice painter to become the world's greatest battle strategist. What, isn't it true? He's the great naval expert who took it upon himself, in his wisdom...how does it go again...Who's been showing that English bedwetter, that cigar-chomping asshole Churchill, where to go stick his cigars!
[referring to officers going to a 'cathouse' the night before shipping out]
Scared ****ers. They need sex like the infantry needs alcohol.
[slowly suffocating in 290m depth]
'To be fearless and proud and alone. To need no one, just sacrifice. All for the Fatherland.' Oh God, all just empty words.
In the German version, Werner's words at this place were: I wanted to stand before something relentless. Where no woman crosses our path, and no mother looks after us. Where only the reality reigns, cruel and large. I was drunk of this prospect. (sobs) Now this is the reality.
[to Werner, while they stand on the bridge, sailing through rough seas]
There's nothing more beautiful than a submarine...and a sailboat! There are no better lines than those of a sailboat. I sailed on a three-masted schooner once. Gorgeous ship! It had holds the size of a cathedral! [he and Werner laugh]
Hail victory, and sink them all!
Hey look its Thomsen! THOOOMSSSEEN!! Good Hunting! You old rascal! My god Phillip! So they pushed you out to sea again!
I am not in the condition to ****!
Mildew is good for you. It's the next best thing to fresh lettuce. Be thankful for what grows down here.
Okay, men, now listen. We're going to blow out the water now and see if we can get our rear ends out of the sand. If we make it to the surface, things could still get pretty rough. Traffic's heavy up there. And we have to pray the engines start, so we can get out of this mess. The condition the boat is in, we have got to head straight for La Rochelle. If we make it... it's half a bottle of beer for each! There is one thing on our side; they won't be expecting us. Well men, all set?
Our patrol planes! Where are they? Answer that one, Herr Göring!
The boat is rated to 90 metres, but of course we can go deeper. There's a limit somewhere. We can only take so much pressure... before the boat will be crushed.