Jaws (1975) · 71 quotes
Ellen
You see the kids?
Brody
They must be in the back yard.
Ellen
In Amity, you say 'Yaad.' [she gives it the Boston sound]
Brody
They're in the yaad, not to faa from the caa. How's that sound?
Ellen
Like you're from N'Yawk. [gives it a Brooklyn sound]
Ellen
I just want to know one simple thing. When do I get to become an islander?
Ellen, never. Never. You're not born here, you're not an islander. That's it.
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.
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..
Ellen
Michael! Did you hear your father? Out of the water now! NOW!
Ellen
My husband tells me you're in sharks.
Hooper
Yeah, I love them, I love them. When I was twelve years old, my father got me this boat and I went fishing off of Cape Cod. And I hooked a scup. And as I was reeling it in, I hooked a four and a half-foot baby thresher shark who proceeded to eat my boat. Ha, ha. He ate my oar, hooks, and uh, my seat cushions, he turned an inboard into an outboard. Scared me to death. And I swam back to shore. And when I was on the beach, I turned around and I actually saw my boat being taken apart. And ever since then, why yes, I have been studying sharks. I plan to go to the Institute tomorrow and tell them that you still have a shark problem here.
Brody
Why would have to tell them that?
Hooper
Sorry.
Ellen
Excuse me, but what are you talking about? Didn't they catch the shark this afternoon? It was on the Cape station news.
Hooper
They caught a shark, not the shark. 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 -- but you, you may want to let that breath for... nothing, nothing. You know uh, you're going to be the only rational man left on this island after I leave tomorrow.
Ellen
Where are you going?
Hooper
I'm going on the Aurora.
Ellen
The Aurora? What is that?
Hooper
It's a floating asylum for uh, shark uh, pure research. Eighteen months at sea.
Ellen
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! Isn't it true that most people are attacked by sharks in three feet of water and about ten feet from the beach.
Hooper
Yes, that's true.
Brody
Now this shark that, that swims alone...
Hooper
A rogue.
Brody
Rogue, yeah, now this guy, he - he keeps swimming around in a place where the feeding is good until the food supply is gone, right?
Hooper
That's the theory...A theory I happen to believe.
Brody
Then why don't we have one more drink and go down and cut that shark open.
Ellen
Martin? Can you do that?
Brody
I can do anything. I'm the chief of police.
