Bates Quotes in Into the Blue (2005)

Bates: [to Sam] If I didn't have such a sweet tooth... I would kill you. Right now.

Bates: He found the Zephyr. Maybe we'll meet up in Never-Never Land. 'Cause I heard the tooth fairy was gonna be there.

Bates: [Bates enters, on his boat, next to the boat on where Jared and Sam are making out] Hey. Hey. You guys okay?

Sam: Yeah.

Jared: Yeah, we're good, man. Just plugging a few holes, you know?

Sam: Hey?

[hits Jared on the chest]

Sam: Sea Robin looks great.

Bates: Yeah, we just finished it. We got her out to sea before the storm hits. We've been working every day since.

Jared: What the hell are you looking for, bro? They allready found the Titanic. You didn't hear about that?

Bates: Oh, you mean the one with the dishes? No, I only hunt for stuff that comes in gold and silver. You know that. He, Sam. Here.

[throws Sam a ring]

Bates: Found it this morning where we were blowing a site. Maybe this guy can find a stone to put in that thing.

[Jared gives him the finger]

Bates: Hey, I'm sorry about your boat. you want my guy to take a look at it?

Jared: No, I think it's looking pretty good. Got it under control.

Bates: All right. Well, the least I can do is offer. Word on the water is you're out of work. You can always come back and work for me.

Jared: No, that's cool, man. I got my own thing going now. You know, but if you wanna subcontract me, that's cool. We can work something out. Like a fifty- fifty kinda thing, you know?

Bates: You don't just take a rowboat out and find a treasure chest filled with gold. It took me almost 10 years of scraping till I found my first haul. Hey, I mean what I say. You need help getting back in the water, let me know. Okay?

[shouts]

Bates: Move it out.

Jared: Hey, Quinn. You wanna come work for a real captain, bro, you let me know, all right?

Bates: Are you a captain know? You know, the water goes outside of the boat.

[Sam laughs]

Bates: We'll see you, Sam.

[Sea Robin moves out]

Bates: He may show what outward courage he will; but I believe, as cold a night as 'tis, he could wish himself in Thames up to the neck; and so I would he were, and I by him.

Williams: But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all, "We died at such a place," some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

Tony Mendez: Okay, you know those science fiction movies? Star Trek, Star Wars. They need an exotic location to shoot. Moonscape, Mars, desert, you know. Now, imagine this: they're a Canadian film crew on a location scout for a science fiction movie. We put it out there - the Canadian producers put out there - that we're looking at Egypt, Istanbul. Then we go to the consulate and say "Hey, we wanna look at Iran, too." I fly into Tehran, we all fly out together as a film crew. Done.

David Marmor: Flamboyant cover identities should be avoided, as it increases operational visibility.

Tony Mendez: This is a lot more plausible than foreigners who wanna go be teachers in Iran.

Bates: You wanna blend in with the population, you don't look like a rodeo clown.

Adam Engell: Just gonna wake up tomorrow morning and be in the movie business? We already have credentials for the teachers.

Tony Mendez: No, sir, we have a contact in L.A.

Jack O'Donnell: Chambers.

Tony Mendez: John Chambers. He's a Hollywood prosthetics guy. He's got an Oscar, he did "Planet of the Apes", and he's done a bunch of contract work for us in the past. I go see him, he sets us up. One, two days, make it look real.

Horace Hardwick: Mr. Travers is in trouble. He has practically put his foot right into a hornets' nest.

Bates: But hornets' nests grow on trees, sir.

Horace Hardwick: Never mind that. We have got to do something.

Bates: What about rubbing it with butter, sir?

Horace Hardwick: You blasted fool, you can't rub a girl with butter!

Bates: My sister got into a hornets' nest and we rubbed HER with butter, sir!

Horace Hardwick: That's the wrong treatment, you should've used mud - Never mind that!

Bates: Sic transit gloria mundi. "Thus passes the glory of the world."

Bates: [to Jerry] Allow us to introduce ourselves, sir. We are Bates.

Bates: We are Bates.

Bates: According to your description, "He hit my five guys."

James Donovan: The guy insured by my client had one accident. One, one, one. Losing control of the car and hitting five motorcyclists.

Bates: From *their* point of view, five things happened.

James Donovan: Well, look, Bob. May I? Bob?

Bates: "Jim."

James Donovan: If I go bowling and I throw a strike, one thing happened. 10 things didn't happen.

Bates: Jim, my guys aren't bowling pins, as much as your guy may have treated them as such.

James Donovan: Let me finish. If your house is insured for $100,000 and a tornado carries it away, it carried away one house. It didn't pick up every stick of furniture and destroy it in a separate incident. If that is what you're saying, well then there is never any limit to our liability, and that is the end of the insurance business. And then, Bob, nobody is safe.

Ben McClure: Howdy, Bates. How's the undertaking business?

Bates: Oh, this town is too healthy. If something don't happen soon, I'll have to vamoose.