Jaws film

Note: the bolded line is ranked #35 in the American Film Institutes list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

— Jaws film america

Yall know me. Know how I earn a livin. Ill catch this bird for you, but it aint gonna be easy. Bad fish! Not like going down to the pond and chasing bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow ya whole. Little shakin, little tenderizin, down you go. And we gotta do it quick, thatll bring back the tourists, thatll put all your businesses on a payin basis. But its not gonna be pleasant! I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. Ill find him for three, but Ill catch him, and kill him, for ten. But youve gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I dont want no volunteers, I dont want no mates, theres too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing..

— Jaws film mind

I dont think you appreciate the gut reaction people have to these thingsMartin, Its all psychological. You yell Barracuda, everybody says Huh? What? You yell Shark, weve got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.

— Jaws film art

Look fellas, lets be reasonable. This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of half-assed autopsy on a fish. And Im not going to stand here and see that thing cut open and have that little Kitner boy spill out all over the dock!

— Jaws film time

Directed by: Steven Spielberg. Written by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb, based on the novel by Peter Benchley.

— Jaws film novel

Mayor Vaughn: Were really a little anxious that youre, ah, youre rushing into something serious here. Its your first summer, you know.

— Jaws film you

Mayor Vaughn: Im only trying to say that Amity is a summer town. We need summer dollars. If people cant swim here, theyll be glad to swim in the beaches of Cape Cod, the Hamptons, Long Island.

— Jaws film people

Hooper: Martin, theres all kinds of sharks in the water, you know? Hammerheads, Whitetips, Blues, Makos, and theres a slight possibility that these bozos have a slight chance that-

— Jaws film art

Hooper: Martin, Martin, its a 100-1. 100-1. Now, Im not saying its not the shark. It probably is, Martin, it probably is! Its a man eater, its extremely rare for these waters, but the fact is, the bite radius on this animal is different than the wounds on the victim. I just- I wanna be sure. You wanna be sure, we all wanna be sure, okay? Now, what I plan to do is very simple; the digestive system on this animal is very, very slow. Lets cut it open, whatever its eaten in the past 24 hours is bound to still be in there, and then well be sure.

— Jaws film art

Mayor Vaughn: Look fellas, lets be reasonable. This is not the time or the place, to perform, some, half-assed autopsy on a fish. And I am not going to stand here, and see that thing cut open, and see that little Kintner boy spill out all over the dock!

— Jaws film time

Mrs. Kintner: I just found out, that a girl got killed here last week, and you knew it! You knew there was a shark out there! You knew it was dangerous! But you let people go swimming anyway? You knew all those things! But still my boy is dead now. And theres nothing you can do about it. My boy is dead. I wanted you to know that.

— Jaws film people

Ellen: Martin hates boats. Martin hates water. Martin - Martin sits in his car when we go on the ferry to the mainland. I guess its a childhood thing. Its a - theres a clinical name for it, isnt there?

— Jaws film art

Chief Brody: Drowning! Isnt it true that most people are attacked by sharks in three feet of water and about ten feet from the beach.

— Jaws film people

Chief 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?

— Jaws film food

Chief Brody: This is a great white Larry. A big one. Any shark expert will tell you its a killer, its a man-eater!

— Jaws film man

Hooper: Look, the situation is that apparently a great white shark has staked a claim in the waters off Amity island. And he is going to continue to feed here as long as there is food in the water.

— Jaws film food

Hooper: A shark is attracted to the exact kind of splashing activity that occurs whenever human beings going swimming. You cannot avoid it.

— Jaws film man

Chief Brody: Opening the beaches on the Fourth of July is like ringing the dinner bell for Christs sake!

— Jaws film christ

Hooper: Look Mr. Vaughn, I pulled a tooth the size of a shot glass out of the wrecked hull of a boat out there and it was the tooth of a great white.

— Jaws film great

Chief Brody: It was Ben Gardners boat, it was all chewed up. I helped tow it in, you shouldve seen it!

— Jaws film you

Mayor Vaughn: And you dont have the tooth? Look, we depend on the summer people here for our very lives-

— Jaws film people

Chief Brody: Were not only going to have to close the beach, were going to have to hire somebody to kill the shark! I mean were going to have to tell the Coast Guard!

— Jaws film body

Hopper: Mr. Vaughn, youll have to contact the Shark Research Panel. Youll have to ring this entire harbor!

— Jaws film you

Hopper: I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you IN THE ASS!

— Jaws film art

Chief Brody: Yeah, a pen! You know. Cause youre gonna do what you do best: youre gonna sign this voucher so I can hire a contractor.

— Jaws film you

Chief Brody: August? What are you talking about? Larry, summers over. Youre the mayor of Shark City! These people think you want the beaches open!

— Jaws film people

Chief Brody: Thats right! You were! You were acting in the towns best interest, and thats why youre gonna do the right thing! Thats why youre gonna sign this, and were gonna pay that guy what he wants!

— Jaws film you

Quint: Im not talkin about pleasure boatin or day sailin. Im talkin about workin for a livin. Im talkin about sharkin.

— Jaws film work

Hooper: Well Im not talkin about hookin some poor dog fish or sand shark. Im talkin about findin a Great White.

— Jaws film poor

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