Jaws (1975)

Lorraine Gary: Ellen Brody

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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.

• 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.

• [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!

• Ellen Brody : What am I going to tell the kids?

  Brody : Tell them I'm going fishing.

• Ellen Brody : Wanna get drunk and fool around?

  Brody : Oh Yeah.

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• Ellen Brody : [upon meeting Matt Hooper]  My husband tells me you're in sharks.

• 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!

• 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!

• Brody : [regarding Sean]  Wanna take him home?

  Ellen Brody : Back to New York?

  Brody : No. Home here.

• Ellen Brody : Listen, Chief, be careful, will ya?

  Brody : In this town?