Ships quotes

“- Smith: I haven't seen anything and I don't need to see anything, sir, but I can tell you... this ship is fucked.
- Dr. Weir: Well, thank you for that scientific analysis, Mr. Smith.”

Sean Pertwee - Smith
Sam Neill - Dr. Weir

“England is under threat of invasion, and though we be on the far side of the world, this ship is our home. This ship, is England. So it's every hand to his rope or gun, quick's the word and sharp's the action.”

Russell Crowe - Capt. Jack Aubrey

“Basil Brown-Oh, well, that’s a ship that’s been buried in the mound.
Robert Pretty-Why would anyone want to bury a ship?
Basil Brown-Well, I expect because that’s a grave.
Robert Pretty-Whose grave?
Basil Brown-Well, I’d expect this is a grave of a great man. A warrior. Or a king.”
Ralph Fiennes - Basil Brown
Archie Barnes - Robert Pretty

“They're not your crew any more. They belong to the ship.”

Sam Neill - Dr. Weir

“Mr. Scott, an alien object of unbelievable destructive power is less than two days away from this planet. The only starship in interception range is the Enterprise. Ready or not, she launches in twelve hours.”
William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“I spent my whole life, my entire fortune, building this ship. I'll be damned if I'm gonna lose it to a bunch of pencil-necked bankers.”
Anthony Heald - Simon Canton

“I will take the Lewis and Clark to a safe distance, and then I will launch TAC missiles at the Event Horizon until I'm satisfied she's vaporized.”

Laurence Fishburne - Miller

“- John Bigalow: I've had a few ships shot out from under me. More than my share. Three in the 1914-18 fracas, and two in 39-45. But all anybody ever asks me about is the Titanic.
- Dirk Pitt: And now I'm doing the same thing.
- John Bigalow: And you're lucky you came to the right man!”
Alec Guinness - John Bigalow
Richard Jordan - Dirk Pitt

“A ship can't be happy unless she's efficient and she certainly won't be efficient unless she's happy.”
Noel Pierce Coward - Captain E. V. Kinross R.N. (Captain "D")

“- Miller: What are you telling me, that this ship is alive?
- Lt. Starck: You wanted an answer, and it's the only one I've got.”
Laurence Fishburne - Miller
Joely Richardson - Lt. Starck

“You will clean up this ship and yourselves!”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh

“To this end, I pledge you ships - ships worthy of our seamen - a mighty fleet, hewn out of the forests of England; a navy foremost in the world - not only in our time, but for generations to come.”
Flora Robson - Queen Elizabeth

“Final report of the vessel Prometheus. The ship and her entire crew are gone. If you're receiving this transmission, make no attempt to come to its point of origin. There is only death here now, and I'm leaving it behind. It is New Year's Day, the year of our Lord, 2094. My name is Elisabeth Shaw, last survivor of the Prometheus. And I am still...” (continue)(continue reading)
Noomi Rapace - Elizabeth Shaw

“- Q: It always makes me feel a bit melancholy. Grand old war ship, being ignominiously haunted away to scrap... The inevitability of time, don't you think? What do you see?
- James Bond: A bloody big ship. Excuse me.”
Ben Whishaw - Q
Daniel Craig - James Bond

“- Edward Young: That isn't a raft, it's a coffin. There's a five-knot current running between us and that island.
- Fletcher Christian Master's Mate: I'll take my chance.”

Phil Davis - Edward Young
Mel Gibson - Fletcher Christian Master's Mate

“You're measuring the stars, not giving the sky a high five.”

The Rock - Maui

“- Margaret Tate: I am not getting in that boat!
- Andrew Paxton: Fine, see you in three days.
- Margaret Tate: You know I can't swim!
- Andrew Paxton: Hence... the boat.”
Sandra Bullock - Margaret Tate
Ryan Reynolds - Andrew Paxton

- Dr. Weir: Look at her, Miller. Isn't she beautiful?
- Miller: Your "beautiful" ship killed its crew, Doctor.
- Dr. Weir: Well... now she has another crew. Now she has us.

Sam Neill - Dr. Weir
Laurence Fishburne - Miller

“- Alex Rogan: Is this my Gunstar?
- Grig: This is a prototype, different from the other ships. She has greater range, more power, and a slight weapons modification. Of course, she features deflective plating, so she can withstand several direct hits.”

Lance Guest - Alex Rogan
Dan O'Herlihy - Grig

“Oh, God, I wish you'd been there. It was a machine. It was a machine, but it was alive. It was like a... like a dance of light. Please. You have to trust me. Now, I don't think they mean us any harm. I don't know how I know that. It's just... a feeling.”

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Lindsey Brigman

“- Mariner: Two drifters meet. Something needs to be exchanged.
- Drifter: I know the code. But I'll give this one to you for free.
- Mariner: Nothing's free in Waterworld.”
Kevin Costner - Mariner
Chaim Jeraffi - Drifter

“- Brody: I mean what is it about this place? Everybody's a boat freak.
- Ellen Brody: It's an island.”
Roy Scheider - Brody
Lorraine Gary - Ellen Brody

“We no take gasoline, we no take the airplane. We take steamship. And that, friends, is how we fly across the ocean.”

Chico Marx - Fiorello

“- Suzanne Constantine: Please can we just get out of here as quickly as possible?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: It took two years to put this thing together. You really believe I can get off, without it?”

Veronica Hamel - Suzanne Constantine
Telly Savalas - Captain Stefan Svevo

“On the clearest of nights, when the winds of the Etherium were calm and peaceful, the great merchant ships, with their cargos of Arcturian solar crystals, felt safe and secure. Little did they suspect that they were persued by... pirates. And the most feared of all these pirates was the notorious Captain Nathaniel Flint.”
Tony Jay - Narrator