Jaws (1975)
Lorraine Gary: Ellen Brody
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Quotes
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Ellen Brody : 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.
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Brody : Is it true that most people get attacked by sharks in three feet of water about ten feet from the beach?
Hooper : Yeah.
Brody : And that... and that before people started to swim for recreation - I mean before sharks knew what they were missing - that a lot of these attacks weren't reported?
Hooper : That's right.
Brody : Now this shark that... that... that swims alone...
Hooper : Rogue.
Brody : What's it called?
Hooper , Brody : [together] Rogue.
Brody : Rogue, yeah. Now this guy, he... he keeps swimmin' around in a place where the feeding is good until the food supply is gone, right?
Hooper : It's called "territoriality". It's just a theory that I happen to... agree with.
Brody : Then why don't we have one more drink and go down and cut that shark open?
Ellen Brody : Martin? Can you do that?
Brody : I can do anything; I'm the chief of police.
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[Brody sees his son sitting in a small skiff, and yells for him to get out of it]
Ellen Brody : Martin, it's his birthday tomorrow!
Brody : I don't want him on the ocean!
Ellen Brody : 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 : All right, now don't say that. I don't want that to happen, you know that. But I want him to read the boating regulations, the rules, y'know, before he goes out on his own.
[while he talks, Ellen flips through the book on sharks he has been reading, and sees an old painting of a shark ramming a hole into the bottom of rowboat's hull]
Ellen Brody : [slams the book shut] Michael! Did you hear your father? Out of the water now! NOW!
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Ellen Brody : What am I going to tell the kids?
Brody : Tell them I'm going fishing.
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Ellen Brody : Wanna get drunk and fool around?
Brody : Oh Yeah.
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Quint : [on board the Orca] Goddamn women today, they can't handle nothin'. Young girls just ain't quite smart... like their grandmothers were!
Ellen Brody : [on the dock] Gotta be Quint.
Brody : Colorful, isn't he?
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Ellen Brody : I just want to know one thing - when do I get to become an islander?
Mrs. Taft : Ellen, never, never! You're not born here, you're not an islander, that's it.
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Ellen Brody : [upon meeting Matt Hooper] My husband tells me you're in sharks.
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Ellen Brody : You see the kids?
Brody : [looking out the window] They must be in the back yard.
Ellen Brody : In Amity, you say "yahd".
Brody : [starting out of the bedroom, speaking with a bad New-England accent] They're in the "yahd", not too "fah" from the "cah".
[looks back at Ellen]
Brody : How's that?
Ellen Brody : Like you're from New York.
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Ellen Brody : [to Chief Brody] You told me the shark was caught. And I, I heard it on the news... I heard it on the Cape station.
Hooper : They caught A shark, not THE shark. Big difference. 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...
[sees the Chief pouring the wine he brought]
Hooper : you know, you oughta let that breathe a little
[sees the massive glass the Chief has poured]
Hooper : - nothing, nothing!
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Artist : Sh-Shark! The shark! He's going into the pond! The shark's in the estuary!
Brody : Now what?
Ellen Brody : Michael's in the pond!
Artist : In the estuary! The shark's in the pond! He's going in the pond! Somebody do something! In the pond! In the pond! Shark! In the pond!
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Brody : [regarding Sean] Wanna take him home?
Ellen Brody : Back to New York?
Brody : No. Home here.
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Ellen Brody : Listen, Chief, be careful, will ya?
Brody : In this town?