Meadows Quotes in Jaws (1975)

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-spotters on the beach.

Mrs. Taft: [cuts him off] Are you going to close the beaches?

Brody: [after brief pause] Yes, we are.

[townspeople erupt into dismayed argument]

[a woman hears Meadows chanting and invites him to a party]

Meadows: Drop your socks and grab your cocks, we're going to a party.

Buddusky: If this kid gets pussy out of this, I'll eat my fucking flat hat, man.

Meadows: [looking at porn] Are they really doing that when they take that picture?

Buddusky: [pause] Well kid, there's more things in this life than you can possibly imagine. I knew a whore once in Wilmington. She had a glass eye... used to take it out and wink people off for a dollar.

Meadows: If you're Catholic, do you think it's, uh, sacrilegious to chant?

Buddusky: Did it get you laid?

Meadows: No.

Buddusky: Then Meadows, what the fuck do you want to go on chanting for?

Mulhall: Chant your ass off, kid. But any pussy you get in this world, you gonna have to pay for, one way or another.

Buddusky: Hallelujah!

Budduskey: I am the motherfucking shore patrol, motherfucker! I am the motherfucking shore patrol! Give this man a beer.

Meadows: I don't want a beer.

Budduskey: You're gonna have a fuckin' beer!

[Meadows has just prematurely ejaculated]

Buddusky: You wanna try it again, kid?

Meadows: Yeah.

Buddusky: [to prostitute] Okay, honey.

Mulhall: Don't worry about it, kid... plenty more where that came from.

Buddusky: We got all night, kid.

Nichiren Shoshu Leader: Welcome to a Nichiren Shoshu discussion meeting! Tonight throughout the city there are actually - there are hundreds of meetings like this going on, where people are learning about Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and Gohonzon!

Meadows: [to Budduskey] What's a "gohonzon"?

Buddusky: Shhh. I'll tell ya 'bout it later.

Meadows: [with a mouthful of peanuts] I had 'em with me!

Mulhall: We'd better catch that train.

Buddusky: We still got time for a beer.

Mulhall: Now wait a minute, man...

Meadows: I ain't old enough.

Buddusky: Ain't old enough for what?

Meadows: For a beer.

Buddusky: Everybody's old enough for a beer. Ain't that right, Mule?

Mulhall: Yeah.

Meadows: After... after... well maybe it was an act for her. I mean I know she was a whore. But I think she liked me.

Buddusky: They got feelings just like everybody else, kid; she probably did.

Meadows: Well, it was real for me. That's what counts.

Meadows: Hey, you guys mind if I say somethin'? That guy at the bar, why did you get so mad at him? I don't blame him not givin' me a beer.

Buddusky: Hey, don't you never get mad at nobody?

Meadows: Well, sure I do, yeah.

Mulhall: Who do you get mad at?

Meadows: Not at somebody who's doing their job.

Buddusky: Who, then?

Meadows: Injustice.

Buddusky: Bullshit! You never get mad at nobody. You're just a pussy!

Meadows: I do too get mad.

Mulhall: Did you ever get mad at the old man for what he done to you?

Meadows: Well, he was just...

Buddusky: ...doin' his job. Hey, they're gonna take eight years outta your life, man.

Meadows: Six years. You said six!

Buddusky: Hey, what the fuck difference does it make? You don't even care about it.

Mulhall: Come on, Badass, that don't help him.

Buddusky: Fuck help, fuck fair! Fuck injustice! Don't you ever just wanna fuckin' whomp and stomp on someone, bite off their ear, just to do it...? I mean just to do it, just to get it out of your system?

Meadows: I do remember something I got mad at. Something when I was in the brig, a Marine did.

Buddusky: What happened? Grunts beat you up?

Meadows: Yeah... but that didn't get me mad.

Buddusky: Well, goddamn it, what *did* get you mad?

Meadows: This Marine guard... he asked me if I believed in Jesus Christ. And I said, "Yeah." And he said that from now on, *he* was Jesus Christ, and I shouldn't ever forget it.

Buddusky: What did you do? Did you hit him?

Meadows: Now can you imagine that? That's awful!

Buddusky: Did you cold-cock him?

Meadows: He better hope the Chaplain don't catch him at that.

Mulhall: Shit... most of the Navy Chaplains I know, they want to stand up on the bridge with the old man and look through aviator sunglasses.

Meadows: Mule... it takes a lot of dedication to be a Chaplain in the Navy.

Mulhall: It don't take diddly-shit, man!

Mulhall: [They're in a bar; Buddusky is competing in a darts game for money] You gotta' help me get Buddusky outta' here. He's bettin' with our travel money.

Meadows: [looks up at the scoreboard] He's losing, too.

Mulhall: Yeah!

Buddusky: [Buddusky comes back over to their table] Now, don't worry about a thing. I'm hustling this guy, understand? I got him right where I want him.

Meadows: Well, maybe he's hustling *you*?

Buddusky: Yeah, maybe he is, but, uh, this is not the time to argue about it, because if I don't win, we don't leave New York, huh? Ha ha ha...

Mulhall: [looks exasperated, shaking his head] Fourteen years... fourteen motherfucking years.

Mulhall: [They look confusedly at a big pile of shoes and boots inside the foyer of the Nichiren Shoshu discussion meeting] Well, what are we gonna' do?

Meadows: Take off your shoes.

Buddusky: [grins at Mulhall] Must be one of them Jap joints where we gotta' take off all our shoes. Know what I mean?

Buddusky: [Scoffing, after they've left the Nichiren Shoshu discussion meeting] Jesus, huh? What a bunch of candy-asses.

Mulhall: Ever hear such happy horseshit?

Buddusky: That one guy was a big homo, heh?

Meadows: Yeah, but you guys, he sure was a *happy* homo.