Jack Dawson quotes from Titanic (1997)

View Quote Fabrizio De Rossi: I can see the Statue of Liberty already! Very small of course.
Jack Dawson: [famous line] I'm the king of the world! Note: ranked #100 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

View Quote Colonel Archibald Gracie: All life is a game of luck.
Caledon Hockley: A real man makes his own luck, Archie. Right, Dawson? [Jack nods]
Ruth DeWitt Bukater: And you find that sort of rootless existence appealing, do you?
Jack Dawson: Well, yes, ma'am, I do... I mean, I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.
Molly Brown: Well said, Jack.
Colonel Archibald Gracie: Hear, hear!
Rose DeWitt Bukater: [holds up her champagne] To make it count.
Everyone: [holds up their champaigns to Jack] To make it count! [Jack smiles, holds up his champagne and everyone drinks]

View Quote Note: this exchange is ranked #100 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

View Quote ROSE!!! ROSE, OVER HERE!

View Quote Jack Dawson: Wait! We're passengers! We're passengers! [hands the tickets to Officer Moody]
James Moody: Have you been through the inspection queue?
Jack Dawson: [lying] Of course! Anyway, we don't have any lice, we're Americans. Both of us.
James Moody: [nods] Right. Come aboard.
[Jack and Fabrizio board the ship]
Jack Dawson: We're the luckiest sons of bitches in the world, you know that?

View Quote Jack Dawson: [waving to people] Good-bye!
Fabrizio De Rossi: You know somebody?
Jack Dawson: Of course not! That's the point! Good-bye, I'll miss you!
Fabrizio De Rossi: Good-bye!
Jack Dawson: Good-bye!
Fabrizio De Rossi: I will never forget you!

View Quote Tommy Ryan: Well, that's typical. First class dogs come down here to take a shite.
Jack Dawson: That let's us know where we rank in the scheme of things.
Tommy Ryan: Like we couldn't forget. I'm Tommy Ryan.
Jack Dawson: Jack Dawson.
Fabrizio De Rossi: Fabrizio.
Tommy Ryan: Do you make any money with your drawings.
[Jack sees Rose for the first time]
Tommy Ryan: Ah forget it, boyo. You're as like to have angels fly out of you're arse as get next to the likes of her.

View Quote [Rose is attempting to commit suicide]
Jack Dawson: Don't do it!
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Stay back! Don't come any closer!
Jack Dawson: Come on, just give me your hand. I'll pull you back over.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: No, stay where you are! I mean it! I'll let go!
Jack Dawson: [throws his cigarette into the ocean] No, you won't.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: What do you mean, "No I won't"? Don't presume to tell me what I will and will not do, you don't know me!
Jack Dawson: Well, you would've done it already.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: You're distracting me! Go away!
Jack Dawson: I can't. I'm involved now. If you let go, I'm gonna have to jump in there after you.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Don't be absurd. You'd be killed!
Jack Dawson: I'm a good swimmer.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: The fall alone would kill you.
Jack Dawson: It would hurt. I'm not saying it wouldn't. To tell you the truth I'm a lot more concerned about that water being so cold. [slowly removing his boots]
Rose DeWitt Bukater: [look down at the water] How cold?
Jack Dawson: Freezing. Maybe a couple degrees over. You ever been to Wisconsin?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: What?
Jack Dawson: Well, they have some of the coldest winters around. I grew up there, near Chippewa Falls. I remember when I was a kid, me and my father, we went ice fishing on Lake Wissota. Ice fishing is you know where you...
Rose DeWitt Bukater: [angrily] I know what ice fishing is!
Jack Dawson: Sorry. You just seemed like, you know, kind of an indoor girl. Anyway, I fell through some thin ice and I'm telling ya, water that cold, like right down there, it hits you like a thousand knives stabbing you all over your body. You can't breathe. You can't think. At least not about anything but the pain. Which is why I'm not looking' forward to jumping in there after you. But like I said, I don't have a choice. I guess I'm hoping you'll come back over the railing and get me off the hook here.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: You're crazy!
Jack Dawson: That's what everybody says. But with all due respect, miss, I'm not the one hanging off the back of a ship here. Come on, give me your hand. You don't want to do this. [Rose turns around and takes Jack's hand] Whew! I'm Jack Dawson.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Rose DeWitt Bukater.
Jack Dawson: I'm gonna have to get you to write that one down. Come on.

View Quote Rose DeWitt Bukater: Mr. Dawson, I--
Jack Dawson: Just call me Jack.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Jack, I want to thank you for what you did. Not just for pulling me back, but your discretion.
Jack Dawson: You're welcome.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Look, I know what you must be thinking. "Poor little rich girl, what does she know about misery?"
Jack Dawson: NO! No, that's not what I was thinking. What I was thinking was, what could've happened to this girl to make her think she had no way out.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: It was everything. It was my whole world and all the people in it, and the intertia of my life. Plunging ahead and me powerless to stop it. [shows Jack her engagement ring]
Jack Dawson: God, look at that thing! You would've gone straight to the bottom.

View Quote Jack Dawson: [referring to Cal] Do you love him?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Pardon me?
Jack Dawson: Do you love him?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Well, you're being very rude. You shouldn't be asking me this.
Jack Dawson: Well, it's a simple question. Do you love the guy or not?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: This is not a suitable conversation.
Jack Dawson: Why can't you just answer the question?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: This is absurd. I don't know you and you don't know me and we are not having this conversation at all. You are rude and uncouth, and presumptuous, and I am leaving now. [starts shaking Jack's hand] Jack... Mister Dawson, it's been a pleasure. I've sought you out to thank you, and now I have thanked you.
Jack Dawson: And you've insulted me.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Well, you deserved it.
Jack Dawson: Right.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Right. [still shakes Jack's hand]
Jack Dawson: I thought you were leaving.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: [turns to leave] I am. You are so annoying.
Jack Dawson: Ha, ha.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: [turns back to Jack] Wait, I don't have to leave, this is my part of the ship. You leave.
Jack Dawson: Oh ho, ho, well well well, now who's being rude?

View Quote Rose DeWitt Bukater: You have a gift, Jack, you do. You see people.
Jack Dawson: I see you.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: And?
Jack Dawson: You wouldn't have jumped.

View Quote Rose DeWitt Bukater: Teach me to ride like a man.
Jack Dawson: [Southern accent] And chew tobacco like a man.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: [Southern accent] And spit like a man!
Jack Dawson: What, they didn't teach you that while finishing school?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: [chuckling] No!

View Quote Molly Brown: [helps Jack put on a tuxedo] I was right. You and my son are just about the same size.
Jack Dawson: Pretty close.
Molly Brown: You shine up like a new penny.

View Quote Ruth DeWitt Bukater: Tell us about the accommodations in steerage, Mr. Dawson. I hear they are quite good on this ship.
Jack Dawson: The best I've seen, ma'am. Hardly any rats. [everyone gently laughs]

View Quote Jack Dawson: [about his silverware dinner] Are these all for me?
Molly Brown: Just start from the outside and work your way in.

View Quote Jack Dawson: [dancing with Cora] I'm gonna dance with her now, all right? [looking at Rose] Come on.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: What?
Jack Dawson: Come on! Come with me.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Jack! Jack, wait! I can't do this.
Jack Dawson: We're gonna have to get a little bit closer. Like this. [looks at Cora] You're still my best girl, Cora.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I don't know this dance!
Jack Dawson: Neither do I! Just go with it! And don't think!

View Quote Rose DeWitt Bukater: Jack, this is impossible! I can't see you.
Jack Dawson: But I need to talk to you.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: No, Jack. No! Jack, I'm engaged! I'm marrying Cal. I love Cal.
Jack Dawson: Rose, you're no picnic, all right? You're a spoiled little brat even, but under that you're the most amazingly astounding girl - woman, that I've ever known and--
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Jack, I--
Jack Dawson: No wait. Let me try to get this out. You're amazing... I'm not an idiot. I know how the world works. I've got ten bucks in my pocket and I have nothing to offer you, and I know that. But I'm too involved now. You jump, I jump, remember? I can't turn away without knowin' that you'll be alright. That's all I want.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Well, I'm fine. I'll be fine. Really.
Jack Dawson: Really? I don't think so. They've got you trapped, Rose! And you're goin' to die if you don't break free, but maybe not right away, 'cause you're strong, but sooner or later that fire that I love about you, Rose... That fire's gonna burn out.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: It's not up to you to save me, Jack.
Jack Dawson: You're right. Only you can do that.

View Quote [Jack stands outside on the bow of the Titanic, down in the dumps, until Rose arrives]
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Hello, Jack. I changed my mind. They said you might be out here -
Jack Dawson: Shhh. Give me your hand. Now close your eyes. Go on, now step up. Now hold on to the railing. Keep your eyes closed. Don't peek.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I'm not.
Jack Dawson: Step up. Hold on, hold on. Keep your eyes closed. Do you trust me? [opens Rose's arms]
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I trust you.
Jack Dawson: All right. Open you eyes!
Rose DeWitt Bukater: [gasps] I'm flying, Jack!
Jack Dawson: [starts singing] Come, Josephine, my flying machine, going up she goes, up she goes.
[They kiss passionately]

View Quote Rose DeWitt Bukater: Cal insists on carting this hideous thing everywhere.
Jack Dawson: Can we be expecting him anytime soon?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Not as long as the cigars and brandy hold out. [shows Jack the diamond]
Jack Dawson: That's nice. What is it, a sapphire?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: A diamond, a very rare diamond. Jack, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls. Wearing this...
Jack Dawson: All right.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Wearing only this.

View Quote Rose DeWitt Bukater: The last thing I need is another picture of me looking like a porcelain doll. [throws Jack a dime] As a paying customer, I expect to get what I want. [stands nude in front of Jack]
Jack Dawson: All right! Over on the bed - the couch. [Rose does so] Come, lie down.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Just tell me when it's right.
Jack Dawson: Put your arm back the way it was. [Rose does so] Now put the arm right over there. That hand, by your face there. [Rose does so] All right. Now, head down. [Rose lowers her head down] Eyes close on me. You try to stay still. [starts sketching]

View Quote Rose DeWitt Bukater: [as Jack sketches her in the nude] I believe you are blushing, Mr. Big Artiste. I can't imagine Monsieur Monet blushing.
Jack Dawson: He does landscapes. Just relax your face.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: That's right.
Jack Dawson: And no laughing!

View Quote Jack Dawson: Where to, miss.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: To the stars. [they are inside the car]
Jack Dawson: Are you nervous?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: No. Put your hands on me, Jack.

View Quote Rose DeWitt Bukater: When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you.
Jack Dawson: This is crazy.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I know. It doesn't make any sense. That's why I trust it.

View Quote [After the collision]
John Hutchinson: Boiler room six is flooded eight feet above the plain and the mail hold is worse. She's already buckled in the foreaft.
Captain Edward J. Smith: Can you shore up?
John Hutchinson: Not unless the pumps are ahead.
Thomas Andrews: Did you see the damage in the mail hold.
John Hutchinson: No, she's already underwater.
Jack Dawson: This is bad.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: We should tell mother and Cal.

View Quote Caledon Hockley: You're a good liar.
Jack Dawson: Almost as good as you. There's no, uh, there's no arrangement, is there?
Caledon Hockley: No, there is. Not that you'll benefit much from it. I always win, Jack, one way or another.

View Quote [Rose jumps from the saving boat and goes to where Jack is]
Jack Dawson: Rose! You're so stupid. Why did you do that, huh? You're so stupid, Rose. Why did you do that? Why?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: You jump, I jump, right?
Jack Dawson: Right.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Oh God! I couldn't go. I couldn't go, Jack.
Jack Dawson: It's all right. We'll think of something.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: At least I'm with you.
Jack Dawson: We'll think of something.

View Quote Spicer Lovejoy: [while fighting Jack] You little shit! [he tries to punch Jack, but misses. Jack punches him, bangs his head against a pillar and pushes him into another pillar].
Jack Dawson: Compliments of the Chippewa Falls Dawsons! [punches Lovejoy in the stomach]

View Quote [Jack and Rose are climbing up the ship]
Male passenger: Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...
Jack Dawson: You want to walk a little faster through that valley there!

View Quote [Rose is on top of a door in the water and Jack is hanging off the side, shivering in the water]
Jack Dawson: I don't know about you, but I intend to go write a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all this.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I love you, Jack.
Jack Dawson: Don't you do that, don't you say your good-byes. Not yet, do you understand me?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I'm so cold.
Jack Dawson: Listen, Rose. You're gonna get out of here, you're gonna go on, and you're gonna make lots of babies, and you're gonna watch them grow. You're gonna die an old... an old lady warm in her bed, not here, not this night. Not like this, do you understand me?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I can't feel my body.
Jack Dawson: Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must do me this honor. You must promise me that you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I promise.
Jack Dawson: Never let go.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I'll never let go, Jack. I'll never let go.