Quotes from Robert Shaw movies and TV shows

Major David Kabakov: What is this thing you Americans call the Super Bowl?

Major David Kabakov: Mr. Corley, what exactly is this Super Bowl?

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Romer Treece: Hey, boy, this is "Goliath" trash! What the bastard hell were you doing diving down there?

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Maj. Schroeder: Ah, tell me what has all this to do with that, uh, suitcase case you keep looking at?
Mallory: Well, that suitcase is full of our penicillin.
Maj. Schroeder: Oh, indeed. Perhaps I could see some it?
Mallory: Certainly, Major. Open it Miller.
Miller: You can't do that here, sir. You'll ruin the lot. You know perfectly well that any contamination will destroy it. It's got to be opened under laboratory conditions.

Mallory: Next time, you can play the corpse. You seem pretty handy with that thing, though.
Barnsby: Could've been luck.

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Quint: Hooper! Stop playing with yourself Hooper!

Quint: When I was a little boy every little squirt wanted to be a harpooner or a sword fisherman. What you got here? A portable shower or a monkey cage?
Hooper: Anti-shark cage.
Quint: Anti-shark cage... You go inside the cage? [Hooper nods.] Cage goes in the water? [Hooper nods.] You go in the water? [Hooper nods.] Shark's in the water? [Hooper nods.] Our shark? [Hooper nods.]
Quint: [he sarcastically sings.] Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again. [Quint laughs and Hooper nods.].

Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. Was coming back from the island of Tinian Del Lady, just delivered the bomb, the Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about half an hour. Tiger, thirteen-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. But we didn't know. Our bomb mission had been so secret. No distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light Chief, sharks come cruising. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, kind of like old squares in a battle, like you see on a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was shark come to the nearest man and he starts pounding, hollering and screaming, sometimes the shark would go away, sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you, right into your eyes.

Quint: Y'all know me, know how I earn a living. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't going to be easy. Bad fish! Not like gong down to the pond and chasing bluegills or tommy-cods. This shark swallow you whole! Little shaking, little tenderizing, down you go. Now we've got to do it quick. That'll bring back the tourists and will put all your businesses on a paying basis. But it's not going to be pleasant! I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, Chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him and kill him for ten. Now you've got to make up your minds. Want to stay alive, then ante up! You want to play it cheap? Be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's 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.

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Doyle Lonnegan: Not only are you a cheat, you're a gutless cheat, as well.

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