The Big Blue (1988)

Rosanna Arquette: Johana

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• Johanna : What's it feel like when you dive?

  Jacques : It's a feeling of slipping without falling. The hardest thing is when you're at the bottom.

  Johanna : Why?

  Jacques : 'Cause you have to find a good reason to come back up... and I have a hard time finding one.

• Johanna : Talk to me some more

  Jacques : It's hard, you know. I don't know what else to say. You're so far away.

  Johanna : Tell me a story.

  Jacques : A story? Do you now how it is- do you know what you're supposed to do, to meet a mermaid?

  Johanna : No.

  Jacques : You go down to the bottom of the sea, where the water isn't even blue anymore, where the sky is only a memory, and you float there, in the silence. And you stay there, and you decide, that you'll die for them. Only then do they start coming out. They come, and they greet you, and they judge the love you have for them. If it's sincere, if it's pure, they'll be with you, and take you away forever.

  Johanna : I like that story

• Johanna : You really send him under the ice? He isn't a slave or convict or anything, is he?

  Dr. Laurence : My dear, science is a cruel mistress.

  Johanna : How is he going to breathe?

  Dr. Laurence : He isn't.

• [after a drunken breath holding contest] 

  Jacques : Who won?

  Johanna : Who won what? The asshole award? Let me tell you, it was a tie!

• Enzo : Dont think of Jacques as a human being, he's from another world.

  Johanna : Oh yeah? And what world are you from Enzo?

  Enzo : Italia!

• Jacques : I know you.

  Johanna : We just met, a few minutes ago.

  Jacques : In the lake.

  Johanna : No in the hut.

  Jacques : Then it must have been someone who looked like a lot like you.

• Uncle Louis : [to Johana]  So, where are you from, Henrietta?

  Jacques : Johana! New York!

  Uncle Louis : New YORK? What KIND of a name is that?

  Johanna : No, I'm *from* new York

  Uncle Louis : Oh Yes! The best lays are from New York!

• Johanna : 6'3", 6'1", maybe 5'9" - You can't be sure, you know the flippers, they add height or they take it away, or something. Anyway short dark hair... Not punk or anything, just short. And the cutest smile. He wasn't smiling at me, I don't think - just smiling. And he thought he saw me in the lake. I mean that was a figure of speech... They're so romantic, the French.

  Sally : [bored]  I thought you said he was Peruvian?

  Johanna : Haven't you been listening?

  Sally : ...Since eight o'clock last night...! You're in love.

  Johanna : Don't be a jerk. There's no such thing as love at first sight.