Carter Blake quotes from Deep Blue Sea (1999)

Carter Blake

That's the answer to the riddle. Because that's what an 8000 pound mako thinks about. About freedom. About the deep blue sea.

Carter Blake

I tell you, man...I quit this job.

Carter Blake

Exactly how many sticks of dynamite would you have to set off in your ears before your head would clear?

Carter Blake

Happy birthday?

I'll let you know tomorrow. How's life underwater?

Carter Blake

Well, it's a lot less complicated... than it is on the surface. That's for sure.

Russell Franklin

Was that a goddamn shark broke through that door?

Carter Blake

I expect so.

Russell Franklin

You expect so? Well, well, well. Am I the only asshole down here who thinks that a tad bit odd? It can do that? Bust through a steel door?

Carter Blake

I ain't the expert. Given Gen Two's size and some room to move... she could put a couple tons, maybe more, into a hit. So, yeah, in my opinion. If she wants through, she's coming.

Russell Franklin

And these sharks... they aren't breaking down doors for the sheer joy of it, are they? They're after us.

Carter Blake

How much dynamite do you have to set off in your ears before your head clears?

You wouldn't understand.

Carter Blake

I wouldn't, huh? Dumb old Carter wouldn't understand that you used us? That you used me? Someone on the water who wouldn't make waves. Someone who wouldn't ask too many questions...because he had something to lose.

You don't see what we've done here.

Carter Blake

No, what you've done is taken God's oldest killing machine and given it will and desire. What you've done is knocked us all the way to the bottom of the goddamn food chain. It's not a great leap forward in my book.

The people we'll save....

Carter Blake

Jim? Brenda? Us?

Everything I've done...I don't think I could've done it without you.

Carter Blake

I know, Susan. That's the problem.

Sherman "Preacher" Dudley

Take me back to the ghetto.

Carter Blake

Amen.