Carter Blake Quotes in Deep Blue Sea (1999)

[Regarding last shark]

Dr. Susan McCallister: We have to kill her.

Carter Blake: That's the smartest thing you've said all day.

Carter Blake: No, what you've done is taken God's oldest killing machine and given it will and desire. What you've done is knocked us all the way to the bottom of the goddamn food chain. It's not a great leap forward in my book.

Carter Blake: That's the answer to the riddle. Because that's what an 8000 pound mako thinks about. About freedom. About the deep blue sea.

Carter Blake: A 45-foot shark, and you hit me. Nice.

Preacher: Shit, it could've been worse. I could've let him eat your ass.

Russell Franklin: So here's the riddle. What does an eight thousand pound mako shark with a brain the size of a flat head V8 engine and no natural predators think about?

Carter Blake: Well, I'm not waiting around here to find out!

[last lines]

Carter Blake: Let me tell you, man. I quit this job.

Preacher: Take me back to the ghetto.

Carter Blake: Amen.

Tom Scoggins: Who're you gonna trust?

Carter Blake: You?

Tom Scoggins: That's right, you trust me!

Preacher: [to Carter who has his feet in the water] Let me ask you something, are you sure it was just three sharks?

Carter Blake: Yeah.

Preacher: Oh. Okay.

Preacher: [Carter takes his feet out of the water] That's more like it.

Russell Franklin: Was that a goddamn shark broke through that door?

Carter Blake: I expect so.

Russell Franklin: You expect so? Huh. Well, well, well. Am I the only asshole down here who thinks that a tad bit odd?

Russell Franklin: It can do that? Bust through a steel door?

Sherman "Preacher" Dudley: You weren't the sunny kid in your class, were you?

Carter Blake: I never went to class.

Carter Blake: They got a pill for what's wrong with you?

Preacher: Carter!

Carter Blake: Hey.

Preacher: Bring me some sushi.

Tom Scoggins: They're big, real big.

Carter Blake: What's that?

Tom Scoggins: The size of your brass balls!

Russell Franklin: Hey, an AGA mask! Did some wreck diving in one of these off the coast of Spain. Tourist thing, you know. You like wreck diving?

Carter Blake: It's okay.

Russell Franklin: Come on, I bet you're really good at it!

Carter Blake: We're on the water. Whole cat-and-mouse thing don't float. You're the man, right?

Russell Franklin: Yeah. Yeah, I'm the man.

Carter Blake: Well, the man's always got a file. What's it say?

Russell Franklin: Two years, Leavenworth, smuggling.

Carter Blake: How'd you make your money? You're the first rich guy in history who's squeaky-clean?

Russell Franklin: You do understand my concern, right?

Carter Blake: Look, I got a workable deal here. I don't make waves, I meet the terms of my parole. I'm not out to change the world like the doc, and I'm not out to wreck it either.