The Big Blue (1988)

Jean-Marc Barr: Jacques Mayol

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Quotes 

• 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

• [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 : You were right.

  Jacques : About what?

  Enzo : It's much better down there... It's a better place...

  Jacques : no...

  Enzo : Push me back in the water...

  Jacques : No, I couldn't...

  Enzo : Jacques... Take me back down... Please...

• Jacques : I don't understand. Please explain to me.

  Enzo : What do you want to know?

  Jacques : Everything!

  Enzo : About what?

  Jacques : About everything!

  Enzo : Mama mia.

• Jacques : Why're you always talkin'? Y'know- you think that other people are interested in what you're talkin' about? I'M not interested, and other people aren't either! So just STOP talkin', because other people have other things to say y'know! You understand me? Stop talkin'! It's bullshit!

  Enzo : She's gone?

  Jacques : YES! She's gone!

• 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!