- Jack: [to Ruth and other guests dining at their table] Well, yes, ma'am, I do... I mean, I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.
- Molly Brown: Well said, Jack.
- Rose: [thinking both of them will die soon] I love you, Jack.
- Jack: Don't you do that, don't say your good-byes. Not yet, do you understand me?
- Rose: I'm so cold.
- Jack: Listen, Rose. You're gonna get out of here, you're gonna go on and you're gonna make lots of babies, and you're gonna watch them grow. You're gonna die an old... an old lady warm in her bed, not here, not this night. Not like this, do you understand me?
- Rose: I can't feel my body.
- Jack: Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must do me this honor. Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.
- Rose: I promise.
- Jack: Never let go.
- Rose: I'll never let go, Jack. I'll never let go. I promise.
- [as the Carpathia is arriving in New York]
- Carpathia Steward: Can I take your name, please love?
- Rose: Dawson, Rose Dawson.
- Jack: [jokingly, whispering to Rose as she lies on top of floating door] I don't know about you, but I intend to write a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all of this.
- Jack: Don't do it.
- Rose: Stay back! Don't come any closer!
- Jack: Come on, just give me your hand. I'll pull you back over.
- Rose: No, stay where you are! I mean it! I'll let go!
- Jack: [He approaches slowly, gesturing to his cigarette to show that he is approaching merely to throw it over the side into the ocean] No, you won't.
- Rose: What do you mean, "No, I won't"? Don't presume to tell me what I will and will not do, you don't know me!
- Jack: Well, you woulda done it already.
- Rose: You're distracting me! Go away!
- Jack: I can't. I'm involved now. You let go, and I'm, I'm 'onna have to jump in there after you.
- Rose: Don't be absurd. You'd be killed!
- Jack: I'm a good swimmer.
- Rose: The fall alone would kill you.
- Jack: It would hurt. I'm not saying it wouldn't. Tell you the truth, I'm a lot more concerned about that water being so cold.
- [pause. She looks down at the water. Jack is slowly removing his boots]
- Rose: How cold?
- Jack: Freezing. Maybe a couple degrees over. You ever, uh, you ever been to Wisconsin?
- Rose: What?
- Jack: Well, they have some of the coldest winters around. I grew up there, near Chippewa Falls. I remember when I was a kid, me and my father, we went ice fishing out on Lake Wissota. Ice fishing is, you know, where you...
- Rose: I know what ice fishing is!
- Jack: Sorry. You just seem like, you know, kind of an indoor girl. Anyway, I, uh, I fell through some thin ice; and I'm telling you, water that cold, like right down there...
- [He gestures with his chin down toward the Atlantic Ocean]
- Jack: ... it hits you like a thousand knives stabbing you all over your body. You can't breathe. You can't think. At least, not about anything but the pain. Which is why I'm not looking forward to jumping in there after you.
- [They exchange glances]
- Jack: Like I said, I don't have a choice. I guess I'm kinda hoping you'll come back over the railing, an' get me off the hook here.
- Rose: You're crazy.
- Jack: That's what everybody says but, with all due respect, Miss, I'm not the one hanging off the back of a ship here. Come on. C'mon, give me your hand. You don't want to do this.
- [She reaches her hand back, he reaches his forward, and he helps her back onto the deck]
- Jack: Whew! I'm Jack Dawson.
- Rose: Rose De Witt Bukater.
- Jack: I'm gonna have to get you to write that one down.
- Lewis Bodine: We never found anything on Jack... there's no record of him at all.
- Old Rose: No, there wouldn't be, would there? And I've never spoken of him until now... Not to anyone... Not even your grandfather... A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now... only in my memory.
- Jack: [referring to Cal] Do you love him?
- Rose: Pardon me?
- Jack: [referring to Cal] Do you love him?
- Rose: Well, you're being very rude. You shouldn't be asking me this.
- Jack: [amused, referring to Cal] Well, it's a simple question. Do you love the guy or not?
- Rose: This is not a suitable conversation.
- Jack: Why can't you just answer the question?
- Rose: This is absurd. I don't know you and you don't know me and we are not having this conversation at all. You are rude and uncouth, and presumptuous, and I am leaving now.
- Rose: [starts shaking Jack's hand]
- Rose: Jack... Mister Dawson, it's been a pleasure. I've sought you out to thank you, and now I have thanked you.
- Jack: And even insulted me.
- Rose: Well, you deserved it.
- Jack: Right.
- Rose: Right.
- Jack: [Rose is still shaking his hand] I thought you were leaving.
- Rose: [turns to leave] I am. You are so annoying.
- Jack: Ha, ha.
- Rose: [turns back to Jack] Wait, I don't have to leave, this is my part of the ship. You leave.
- Jack: Oh ho, ho, well well well, now who's being rude?
- Rose: [Rose sees the lifeboat come back to look for survivors] Jack...
- [she shakes his hand, trying to get his attention]
- Rose: Jack... Jack...
- [she looks back at the lifeboat]
- Rose: Jack, there's a boat! Jack...
- [her smile begins to fade as she realized he has passed away. She shakes his hand again]
- Rose: Jack, Jack...
- [she shakes his hand with more urgency]
- Rose: JACK!
- [she begins to sob]
- Rose: Jack?
- [she's realizing its in vain]
- Rose: There's a boat, Jack...
- Old Rose: [about Jack drawing her naked] My heart was pounding the whole time. It was the most erotic moment of my life. Up until then, at least.
- Lewis Bodine: So what happened next?
- Old Rose: You mean, did we "do it"? Sorry to disappoint you Mr. Bodine, but Jack was very professional.
- Rose: Mr. Andrews... I saw the iceberg and I see it in your eyes... please, tell me the truth.
- Thomas Andrews: The ship will sink.
- Rose: You're certain?
- Thomas Andrews: Yes. In an hour or so, all of this will be at the bottom of the Atlantic.
- Cal Hockley: What?
- Thomas Andrews: Please, tell only who you must. I don't want to be responsible for a panic. And get to a boat quickly, don't wait. You remember what I told you about the boats?
- Rose: Yes... I understand.
- Tommy Ryan: [running with Jack and Fabrizio to find a lifeboat] Music to drown by. Now I know I'm in first class.
- [Jack is dancing with Cora]
- Jack: I'm gonna dance with her now, all right?
- [Looking at Rose]
- Jack: Come on.
- Rose: What?
- Jack: Come on, come with me.
- Rose: Jack! Jack, wait. I can't do this.
- Jack: We're gonna have to get a little bit closer. Like this.
- [Jack looks at Cora]
- Jack: You're still my best girl, Cora.
- Old Rose: [to Brock, Lizzy, and Brock's staff] It's been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It *really* was...
- Wallace Hartley: [the band has finished playing, and Hartley tells the band that they may go for the boats. He remains behind and starts to play "Nearer My God To Thee". One by one the band comes back and plays as the scenes change. when the tune finishes, the water is about to swallow them] Gentlemen. It has been a privilege playing with you tonight.
- [Talking about Caledon Hockley]
- Old Rose: That's the last time I ever saw him. He married, of course. And inherited his millions. But the crash of '29 hit his interests hard, and he put a pistol in his mouth that year. Or so I read.
- Lewis Bodine: [narrating an animated sequence of the Titanic's sinking on a TV monitor] Okay, here we go. She hits the berg on the starboard side, right? She kind of bumps along, punching holes like Morse code, dit dit dit, along the side, below the water line. Then the forward compartments start to flood. Now as the water level rises, it spills over the watertight bulkheads, which unfortunately don't go any higher then E deck. So now as the bow goes down, the stern rises up. Slow at first, then faster and faster until finally she's got her whole ass sticking up in the air - And that's a big ass, we're talking 20 - 30,000 tons. Okay? And the hull's not designed to deal with that pressure, so what happens? "KRRRRRRKKK!" She splits. Right down to the keel. And the stern falls back level. Then as the bow sinks it pulls the stern vertical and then finally detaches. Now the stern section just kind of bobs there like a cork for a couple of minutes, floods and finally goes under about 2:20am, two hours and forty minutes after the collision. The bow section planes away, landing about half a mile away going about 20 - 30 knots when it hits the ocean floor. "BOOM, PLCCCCCGGG!"... Pretty cool, huh?
- Old Rose: Thank you for that fine forensic analysis, Mr. Bodine. Of course, the experience of it was... somewhat different.
- Jack: [to Rose as he kisses her hand at the bottom of the grand starway] I saw that in a nickelodeon once and I always wanted to do it.
- [Rose shows Jack her engagement ring]
- Jack: God! Look at that thing! You would've gone straight to the bottom.
- Jack: [talking privately in the Titanic's gym room] Rose, you're no picnic, all right? You're a spoiled little brat, even, but under that, you're the most amazingly, astounding, wonderful girl, woman that I've ever known...
- Rose: Jack, I...
- Jack: No, let me try and get this out. You're ama- I'm not an idiot, I know how the world works. I've got ten bucks in my pocket, I have no-nothing to offer you and I know that. I understand. But I'm too involved now. You jump, I jump remember? I can't turn away without knowing you'll be all right... That's all that I want.
- Rose: Well, I'm fine... I'll be fine... really.
- Jack: Really? I don't think so. They've got you trapped, Rose. And you're gonna die if you don't break free. Maybe not right away because you're strong but... sooner or later that fire that I love about you, Rose... that fire's gonna burn out...
- Rose: It's not up to you to save me, Jack.
- Jack: You're right... only you can do that.
- [the Titanic is about to sink]
- Rose: [holding on the railing on the stern] Jack! This is where we first met.
- [Rose jumps from the saving boat and goes to where Jack is]
- Jack: Rose! You're so stupid. Why did you do that, huh? You're so stupid, Rose. Why did you do that? Why?
- Rose: You jump, I jump, right?
- Jack: Right.
- Rose: Oh God! I couldn't go. I couldn't go, Jack.
- Jack: It's all right. We'll think of something.
- Rose: At least I'm with you.
- Rose: [seeing her standing alone on the highest railing of bow] Hello Jack. I changed my mind.
- Jack: [stands onto the same railing she's on, hugs her waist] Shhh. Gimme your hand. Now close your eyes, go on. Now step up. Now hold on to the railing. Keep your eyes closed, don't peek.
- Jack: Step up on the railing. Hold on, hold on. Keep your eyes closed. Do you trust me?
- Rose: I trust you.
- Jack: [Jack opens Rose's arms]
- Jack: All right. Open your eyes.
- Rose: [gasps in excitement] I'm flying, Jack!
- Rose: [gasps in amazement] I'm flying, Jack!
- Jack: [Jack starts singing softly into her ear] Come, Josephine, in my flying machine, going up, she goes up, up she goes.
- [they kiss]
- Ismay: [Andrews enters room with crew behind him; he lays out architectural drawings on table, with Ismay behind him] Most unfortunate, captain!
- Thomas Andrews: [perspiring and trembling] Water... fourteen feet above the keel in ten minutes. In the forepeak, in all three holds and in the boiler room six.
- Ismay: When can we get underway, damnit!
- Thomas Andrews: That's five compartments! She can stay afloat with the first four compartments breached, but not five!
- [tersely to Smith]
- Thomas Andrews: Not five. As she goes down by the head, the water will spill over the tops of the bulkheads at E deck from one to the next. Back and back. There's no stopping it.
- Smith: The pumps... if we opened the doors...
- Thomas Andrews: [interrupting] The pumps buy you time, but minutes only. From this moment, no matter what we do, Titanic will founder.
- Ismay: [incredulously] But this ship can't sink!
- Thomas Andrews: She's made of iron, sir! I assure you, she can... and she will. It is a mathematical certainty.
- Smith: How much time?
- Thomas Andrews: An hour... two at most.
- Smith: And how many aboard, Mr. Murdoch?
- 1st Officer William Murdoch: 2,200 souls on board, sir.
- Smith: [turning to Ismay] Well, I believe you may get your headlines, Mr. Ismay.
- Ruth: [with other passengers in line behind her] Will the lifeboats be seated according to class? I hope they're not too crowded.
- Rose: Oh mother, shut up! Don't you understand? The water is freezing and there aren't enough boats. Not enough by half. Half the people on this ship are going to die.
- Cal Hockley: Not the better half.
- Molly Brown: Come on Ruth, get in the boat. First-class seats are right up here.
- Cal Hockley: You know, it's a pity I didn't keep that drawing. It'll be worth a lot more by morning.
- Rose: You unimaginable bastard!
- Molly Brown: [to the group who are dining at the same table] Hey, uh, who thought of the name Titanic? Was it you, Bruce?
- Ismay: Yes, actually. I wanted to convey sheer size, and size means stability, luxury, and above all, strength.
- Rose: Do you know of Dr. Freud, Mr. Ismay? His ideas about the male preoccupation with size might be of particular interest to you.
- Ruth: [whispering] What's gotten into you?
- Rose: Excuse me.
- [She rises and leaves]
- Ruth: I do apologize.
- Molly Brown: She's a pistol, Cal! Hope you can handle her.
- Cal Hockley: Well, I may have to start minding what she reads from now on, won't I, Mrs. Brown?
- Ismay: Freud? Who is he? Is he a passenger?
- Cal Hockley: [after telling Rose there's another lifeboat on the other side of the ship and he and Jack can get on the lifeboat and away from the ship safely] You're a good liar.
- Jack: Almost as good as you. There's uh- there's no arrangement is there?
- Cal Hockley: [Sarcastically] Oh, there is... Not that you'll benefit from it... I always win, Jack.
- [Cal glares at Jack]
- Brock Lovett: [Lewis, to old Rose, Lizzy and the rest of his staff] 26 years of experience working against him. He figures anything big enough to sink the ship they're gonna see in time to turn. The ship's too big with too small a rudder. It doesn't corner worth a damn. Everything he knows is wrong.
- Molly Brown: Do you have the slightest comprehension of what you're getting into?
- Jack: Not really.
- Molly Brown: Well, you're about to fall into the snake pit... what are you planning to wear?
- [nods at the clothes Jack has on. He looks down and shrugs]
- Molly Brown: I thought so. Come on.
- [Rose is telling the story of how she and Jack met]
- Lewis Bodine: Wait a second. You were going to kill youself by jumping off of the Titanic?
- [laughing hysterically]
- Lewis Bodine: All you had to do was wait two days!
- Rose: [letting go of Jack's hand] I'll never let go, Jack. I promise.
- [she kisses his hand and watches him sink, almost falling apart before she finally climbs back into the water to call the lifeboat back]
- Thomas Andrews: [having broken his promise to Rose] I'm sorry that I didn't build you a stronger ship, young Rose.
- Musician: What's the use? Nobody's listening to us anyway.
- Wallace Hartley: Well, they don't listen to us at dinner either.
- [Rose is about to cut Jack free with an axe]
- Jack: Wait, wait, wait! Take a couple practice swings over there.
- [Rose chops a hole in a cupboard door]
- Jack: Good! Now try and hit the same mark again, Rose. You can do it!
- [Rose chops again, missing the first hole by about 3 feet]
- Jack: Okay, that's enough practice.
- Old Rose: [to Brock, Lizzy, and Brock's staff] I saw my whole life as if I'd already lived it. An endless parade of parties and cotillions, yachts and polo matches. Always the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter. I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared... or even noticed...
- [Looking at a salvaged hand mirror]
- Old Rose: This was mine. How extraordinary! And it looks the same as it did last time I saw it. The reflection's changed a bit...
- Bobby Buell: Brock! Brock! There's a satellite call for you.
- Brock Lovett: Bobby, we're launching now. See these submersibles going into the water?
- [motions to the subs]
- Bobby Buell: Trust me, buddy, you wanna take this call.
- [nods seriously as Bobby walks towards the satelitte phone]
- Brock Lovett: This better be good.
- [follows Bobby to the satellite phone]
- Bobby Buell: Now, ya gotta speak up, she's kinda old.
- Brock Lovett: Great.
- [picks up phone]
- Brock Lovett: This is Brock Lovett. How can I help you, Mrs...?
- [turns to Bobby]
- Bobby Buell: Calvert. Rose Calvert.
- Brock Lovett: ...Mrs. Calvert?
- Old Rose: I was just wondering if you had found the "Heart of the Ocean" yet, Mr. Lovett.
- Brock Lovett: [turns to Bobby, completely shocked]
- Bobby Buell: Told ya ya wanted to take the call.
- Brock Lovett: All right, you have my attention, Rose. Can you tell us who the woman in the picture is?
- Old Rose: Oh yes, the woman in the picture is me!
- Father Byles: [Near tears himself as he desperately clings to to the ship with one hand, while still holding onto the hands of the praying passengers with his other hand] And God shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death; neither shall there be sorrow or crying; neither shall there be anymore pain, for the former world has passed away.
- [Jack and Rose are cuddling in the back seat of the car]
- Jack: [Implying they're about to have sexual intercourse] Are you nervous?
- Rose: No.
- [He smiles at her; their fingers intertwining. Rose gently takes Jack's hand and kisses one of his fingers three times. She looks up at him and is silent for a second]
- Rose: Put your hands on me, Jack.
- [He kisses her and she lies down in the seat, with him on top of her]
- Fabrizio: [standing with Jack on the bow] I can see the Statue of Liberty already; very small, of course!