Roy Scheider quotes:

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.

Brody cannot believe the size of the creature, and with a classic, practical understatement tells Quint his assessment: You're gonna need a bigger boat. Awestruck, they all view the full-sized, massive shark circling the boat. Quint estimates it is 25 feet long: Three tons of him.

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let 'em piss on me?

To be on the wire is life - the rest - is waiting.