Ellen Brody: [upon meeting Matt Hooper] My husband tells me you're in sharks.
Quint: Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him.
Brody: Take this stuff back to the office and get to work on those signs. "Beaches Closed - No Swimming. By the Order of the Amity PD". And let Polly do the printing. Hendricks: What's the matter with my printing? Brody: Let Polly do the printing.
Mayor Vaughn: I'm only trying to say that Amity is a summer town. We need summer dollars. Now, if the people can't swim here, they'll be glad to swim at the beaches of Cape Cod, the Hamptons, Long Island... Brody: That doesn't mean we have to serve t...
Quint: [On radio] Your husband's all right, Mrs. Brody. He's fishing. He's just caught a couple of stripers. We'll bring 'em in for dinner. We won't be long, we haven't seen anything yet. Over and out.
Brody: [Drunk] I'm tellin' ya, the crime rate in New York'll kill you. There's so many problems, you never feel like you're accomplishing anything. Violence, rip-offs, muggings... kids can't leave the house - you gotta walk them to school. But in Ami...
Quint: [as he spots Hooper sitting on the deck playing solitaire] Stop playin' with yourself, Hooper.
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" fro...
Brody: You're certifiable, Quint! You know that? Quint: Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Brody: [to Mayor Vaughn, after the shark attack on July Fourth] Larry, the summer is over. You're the mayor of "shark city". These people think you want the beaches open.
Hooper: I got the creme de la creme. Right here. Hold on. Yeah, you see that? [takes off his t-shirt, showing a very hairy chest] Brody: You're wearing a sweater!
Brody: I just- I just want to tell you what we're planning so far... Meadows: What about the beaches, Chief? Brody: We're going to put on the extra- the extra summer deputies as quickly as possible, and then we're going to try and use, uh, shark-spot...
Quint: This shark, swallow you whole.
Hooper: Hello. Ben Gardner: Hello back... young feller. How are ya? Say I hope you not going out with those nuts, are ya?
Christine 'Chrissie' Watkins: Come on into the water!
[first lines] Tom Cassidy: What's your name again? Christine 'Chrissie' Watkins: Chrissie. Tom Cassidy: Where are we going? Christine 'Chrissie' Watkins: Swimming
Quint: [before leaving dock] Break it up will ya', Chief! Daylight's wastin'.
Quint: [trying to hurry Brody into the boat] Come on Chief, this isn't no boy scout picnic. See ya' got ya' rubbers! [Quint laughs wildly]
