Jack Dawson Quotes

Rose: Everybody expects me to be this delicate little flower which I am not! I'm sturdy, I'm strong as a horse. I'm here to do something, not just sit around and be decorative. You see these hands? They were made for work.

Waiter: Care for something, miss? Would you like some tea or some bouillon?

Rose: No!

(Jack laughs)

Rose: There is something in me, Jack. Like a dynamo, I feel it. I don't know what it is whenever I should be an artist on a sculptor or I don't know. A-a dancer like Isadora Duncan or wild pagan spirit. Or a moving picture actress.

Rose: My dream has always been to just run away and become an artist. Living in the garrett, poor but free.

Jack: You wouldn't last two days. There is no hot water and hardly any caviar.

Rose: I happen to hate caviar. And I hate people telling me what dreams I should and shouldn't have.

(Rose is going through Jack's sketchbook...)

Rose: You liked this woman. You used her several times.

Jack: Well. She had beautiful hands, you see?

Rose: I think you must have had a love affair with her.

Jack: No, no, no. Just with her hands. She was a one-legged prostitute. See? She had a good sense of humor though.

Rose: Paris? You do get around for a p... Well, a... a person of limited means.

Jack: Go on. A poor guy. You can say it.

(Jack asks if Rose loves Cal...)

Rose: This is absurd. You don't know me and I don't know you and we are not having this conversation at all. You are rude and uncouth and presumptuous and I am leaving now, Jack. Mr. Dawson. It's been a pleasure. I sought you out to thank you and now I have thanked you.

Jack: And you've insulted me.

Rose: Well, you deserved it.

Jack: Right.

Rose: Right.

Jack: I thought you were leaving.

Rose: I am. You are so annoying. Wait. I don't have to leave. This is my part of the ship. You leave.

Jack: Well, well, well. Now who's being rude?

Rose: Look. I know what you must be thinking. Poor little rich girl. What does she know about misery?

Jack: No. No, that's not what I was thinking. What I was thinking was what could have happened to this girl to make her think she had no way out?

(Rose is getting ready to jump off the ship...)

Rose: Don't presume to tell me what I will and will not do. You don't know me.

Jack: Well, you would have done it already.

Rose: You're distracting me. Go away.

Jack: I can't. I'm involved now. You let go, and I'm going to have to jump in there after you.