Jake Barnes Quotes in Alaska (1996)

Jake Barnes: What's that? It's either a polar bear or the whitest dog I've ever seen.

Sean Barnes: It's a dog. Can I keep him?

Charlie: Nice landing, Jake, that's a stiff cross wind.

Jake Barnes: Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Charlie: I bet you didn't say that when you were flying 747s for a living...

Jake Barnes: Yeah, I could say anything I wanted, as long as I didn't spill any drinks in first class.

Jake Barnes: Mayday, mayday! 909Tango is going down! Mayday, mayday, mayday!

[screams]

Jake Barnes: [Answering Robert's questions about Lady Brett Ashley] Well, let me give you the facts. She's a drunk and a drifter. She's gonna marry a guy named Mike Campbell. That way she'll have a rich, sodden old age.

Robert Cohn: I don't believe it!

Jake Barnes: Don't ask a lot of fool questions if you don't like the answers.

Robert Cohn: Well, I didn't ask you for a rundown on her private life.

Jake Barnes: You asked me what I knew about her.

Robert Cohn: I didn't ask you to insult her.

Jake Barnes: Oh, go to Hell!

Robert Cohn: Take that back!

Jake Barnes: Cut out the prep school stuff, Robert!

Robert Cohn: Take it back!

Jake Barnes: Sure, sure. I never heard of Brett Ashley. How's that?

Robert Cohn: No, not that! About me going to Hell!

Jake Barnes: Don't go to Hell! Go back in the Select if that's what you want!

Robert Cohn: All right, I will!

Jake Barnes: Don't try to tell me how to live with myself! I know all about that. It's just living with other people that gets to be tough once in a while.

Georgette: [Entering a bistro] You leaving again?

Jake Barnes: Yes, I'm a working man.

Georgette: I am a working girl.

Georgette: Well, I guess we keep different hours.

Georgette: Probablement. Bon soir.

Jake Barnes: Doctor, don't you think it's about time you stopped lying to me?

Army doctor: What do you want to know, Barnes?

Jake Barnes: Am I going to be all right?

Army doctor: There'll be certain aftereffects from your wound, but that's to be expected. The important thing is that the shell fragment that entered your back missed your spine, so you'll be able to walk and move about absolutely normally. However...

Jake Barnes: Go on.

Army doctor: You're going to be impotent.

Jake Barnes: Everyone behaves badly given the proper chance.

Jake Barnes: You don't like Paris?

Georgette: No.

Jake Barnes: Why don't you go somewhere else?

Georgette: There isn't anywhere else.