Chief Brody: It doesn't make sense they pay a guy like you to watch sharks?
Hooper: Well, it doesn't make much sense for a guy who hates the water to live on an island.
Chief: It's only an island if you look at it from the water.
Hooper: THAT makes a lot of sense.
Hooper: Mr. Vaughn, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks, and that's all. Now, why don't you take a long, close look at this sign.
[refers to the graffitied billboard] Hooper: Those proportions are correct. Mayor Vaughn: Love to prove that, wouldn't ya? Get your name into the National Geographic.
"This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of a half-assed autopsy on a fish. I'm not going to stand here and see that thing cut open and see that little Kintner boy spill out all over the dock." - Mayor of Amity.
All my friends and I have to do is mention that "little Kintner boy" to get a smile.