“What's the trouble about that? That fine way. The Savior, He take my father up to fishermen's Heaven - with all his old friends.”

Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“The environment is us. And it's being mangled. And I'm gonna make something very clear to you. My people are violently ill. They're beginning to lose their faculties. They stagger and they fall, and this has nothing to do with alcohol, as these villagers claim. My people are fishermen; their lives are clean.”

Armand Assante - John Hawks

“- Donna: Fisherman?
- Joe: Yeah, I was.
- Donna: Like it?
- Joe: While it lasted, yes.
- Donna: You didn't go on anymore?
- Joe: Nope.
- Donna: Why not?
- Joe: Unforeseen circumstances.”
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Donna De Angelo
David Strathairn - Joe Gastineau

- Sue Charlton: Weren't you afraid?
- Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee: Of dying? Nah. I read the Bible once. You know God and Jesus and all them apostles? They were all fishermen, just like me. Yeah, straight to heaven for Mick Dundee. Yep, me and God, we'd be mates.
Linda Kozlowski - Sue Charlton
Paul Hogan - Michael J. “Crocodile” Dundee

“- Captain Richard Phillips: There's gotta be something other than being a fisherman and kidnapping people.
- Muse: Maybe in America, Irish. Maybe in America.”
Tom Hanks - Captain Richard Phillips
Barkhad Abdi - Muse