Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Quotes

Davey Jones: Damn you, Jack Sparrow...


Gibbs: And what's your story sailor?
Norrington: My story? My story is the same as yours just one chapter behind. I chased a man across the seven seas. The pursuit cost me my crew, my commission, and my life.
Gibbs: Commodore?
Norrington: No, not anymore! Weren't you listening? I would have had you all off Tripoli if it weren't for that hurricane.
Gibbs: Lord. You didn't try to sail through it?
Norrington: So do I make your crew or not? You didn't say where your going. Somewhere Nice!
[Tips over table]
Norrington: So am I worthy to serve under Captain Jack Sparrow. Or should I just kill you now?
Jack Sparrow: Ah, You're hired.
Norrington: Sorry. Old habbits and all that.


Davy Jones: Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare? All your sins punished? I can offer you an escape.
Chaplain: Don't listen to him!
Davy Jones: Do you not fear death?
Chaplain: I'll take my chances, Sir.
Davy Jones: To the depths.
Crewmember: Cruel blighter!
Davy Jones: Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any *different*? I offer you a choice. Join my crew, and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve?
Helmsman: I - I will, serve.
Davy Jones: Grand.


Tia Dalma: Davey Jones can't go on land but once every ten years. Land is where you are safe Jack Sparrow. And so you will carry land with you.
[hands Jack a jar of dirt]
Jack Sparrow: Dirt. This is a jar a dirt.
Tia Dalma: Yes.
Jack Sparrow: Is the jar of dirt going to help?
Tia Dalma: If ya don't want it. Give it back.
Jack Sparrow: [turns away, hugging jar to his chest] No.
Tia Dalma: Then it helps.


Jack Sparrow: Elizabeth!
[Turns to Gibbs]
Jack Sparrow: Hide the rum.


Davey Jones: They're here. And I cannot set foot on land for near of a decade.
Maccus: Then trust us to go in your stead.
Davey Jones: I trust you to know what awaits you should you fail!


Norrington: Come on, men! Who wants some? Form an orderly line, I'll have you all one by one. Come on, who's first?
Elizabeth Swann: [Grabs bottle from Norrington's hand and smashes it over his head] I just wanted the pleasure of doing that myself!


Elizabeth Swann: Jack, the letters, give them back.
Jack Sparrow: No. Persuade me.
Elizabeth Swann: You do know Will taught me how to handle a sword.
Jack Sparrow: As I said, persuade me.


Jack Sparrow: [holds up jar of dirt] Oi! Fishface! Lose something? Eh? Scungili!
[falls down stairs, holds up jar again]
Jack Sparrow: Got it! Come to negotiate eh? Have you, you slimy git? Look what I've got.
[sing-song]
Jack Sparrow: I've got a jar of dirt, I've got a jar of dirt, and guess what's inside it!


Maccus: Turns out not even Jack Sparrow can best the devil.


Mr. Mercer: The last of our ships has returned.
Lord Cutler Beckett: Is there any news on the chest?
Mr. Mercer: None. But one of our ships found a man adrift at sea.
[drops the Letters of Marque on the desk]
Mr. Mercer: He had these.
[Beckett opens the letter to look at it before looking up at Norrington]
Norrington: I took the liberty of filling in my name.
Lord Cutler Beckett: If you intend to claim these, then you must have something to trade. Do you have the Compass?
Norrington: [shakes his head] Better.
[tosses a bag onto Beckett's desk]
Norrington: The heart of Davey Jones.


Jack Sparrow: [to Will Turner who is being carried off by the cannibals] Save me!


Elizabeth Swann: We're not getting out of this.
Norrington: Not with the chest. Into the boat.
[takes chest]
Elizabeth Swann: You're mad.
Norrington: Don't wait for me.
[runs away from the longboat with the chest]
Jack Sparrow: Uh, I say we respect his final wish.


Will Turner: [ready to open Davy Jones' Chest] I keep the promises I make, Jack. I intend to free my father. I hope you're here to see it.
Jack Sparrow: [pulls out sword and threatens Will] Can't let you do that mate. If Jones is gone who's to call his terrible beastie off the hunt, eh?
Norrington: [Norrington draws his sword, points it at Will] I can't let you do that, either. So sorry.
Jack Sparrow: [to Norrington] I knew you'd warm up to me eventually.
Norrington: [Norrington points his sword at Jack] Lord Beckett desires the contents of that chest. I deliver it, I get my life back.
Jack Sparrow: Ah. The dark side of ambition.
Norrington: Oh, I prefer to see it as the promise of redemption.


Tia Dalma: Would ya sail to de ends of de earth?


Jack Sparrow: My eyesight is as good as ever!


Cotton's Parrot: Awk, don't eat me.
Will Turner: I'm not going to eat you.


Scarlett: Jack Sparrow?
Giselle: Haven't seen him in a month. When you do see him, can you give him a message?
[slaps Will in the face]


Norrington: [drunk and angry] So am I worthy to serve under Captain Jack Sparrow...
[he draws his pistol and points it at Jack, who is hiding behind a pole]
Norrington: ... or should I just kill you now?
Jack Sparrow: [tries and fails to hide behind his pole] You're hired!
Norrington: Sorry. Old habits and all that.
[smiles and prepares to pull the trigger]


Jack Sparrow: [Talking about Jack's debt to Jones] You already have my payment. One soul to serve on your ship is already over there.
Davey Jones: One soul is not equal to another.
Jack Sparrow: Ah-ha! So, we've established my proposal as sound in principle. Now, we're just haggling over price.


Elizabeth Swann: There will come a time when you'll have the chance to do somethng courageous, to do the right thing.
Jack Sparrow: I love those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by.


Gibbs: [while recruiting in Tortuga] And what's *your* story?
Norrington: My story? It's exactly the same as your story, just one chapter behind. I chased a man across the seven seas. The pursuit cost me my crew... my commission... and my life.
[he swigs some rum]
Gibbs: [a pause, as it dawns on him] ... Commodore?
Norrington: [suddenly angry] No, not anymore, weren't you *listening*?


Crewmember: I have one arm and a bum leg.
Gibbs: It's the crow's nest for you.


Marty: [after burning off a few of the Kraken's tentacles] Did we kill it?
Gibbs: No... we just made it angry.


'Bootstrap' Bill Turner: Jones' terrible leviathan will find you. It'll drag the Pearl back to the depths and you along with it!
Jack Sparrow: Any idea when Jones might release said terrible beastie?
'Bootstrap' Bill Turner: I already told you, Jack.
[he grabs Jack's hand and folds it into a fist, as if handing him something]
'Bootstrap' Bill Turner: He comes now... with ravenous hunger... for the man what bears the Black Spot.
[Jack unfolds his hand and sees the Black Spot appear on his palm]


Gibbs: [Jack's hat is blown overboard while the Black Pearl is fleeing the Kraken] Jack's hat!
[the crew gathers at the rail]
Gibbs: Veer about!
Jack Sparrow: No! Leave it!
[the whole crew stares at him incredulously]
Jack Sparrow: R-run!
[he runs away]
Gibbs: [he looks at the crew] Back to yer stations, the lot o' ye!
[he finds Jack hiding underneath the stairs]
Gibbs: Jack...
Jack Sparrow: Shhh.
Gibbs: For the love of Mother and Child, Jack, what's coming after us?
Jack Sparrow: [short pause] Nothing.


Will Turner: [watching the cursed pirates play Liar's Dice] What do they wager?
'Bootstrap' Bill Turner: Well, the only thing we have. Years of service.


'Bootstrap' Bill Turner: Once you've sworn an oath to the Dutchman, there's no leaving it.
Will Turner: I've sworn no oath.
'Bootstrap' Bill Turner: [grasps Will's shoulders] Then you must get away.


Jack Sparrow: [after seeing Elizabeth] Hide the rum!


Jack Sparrow: [to Elizabeth] One word love; curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day you wont be able to resist.


Guard: Mr. Swann...
Governor Weatherby Swann: *Governor* Swann, still. Do you think I wear this wig to keep my head warm?


Jack Sparrow: [after being covered in mucus after the Kraken roars at him] Not so bad...
[wipes the slime from his face]
Jack Sparrow: [he looks down and sees his old hat] Oh!
[reaches for his hat and puts it on]
Jack Sparrow: 'Ello, beastie.
[smiles and draws his sword]


Jack Sparrow: So what's your plan?
Will Turner: I row over, search the ship until I find your bloody key.
Jack Sparrow: And if there are crewmen?
Will Turner: I cut down anyone in my path.
Jack Sparrow: [turns to Gibbs] I like it. Simple, easy to remember.


Jack Sparrow: Now where is that monkey, I need to shoot something!


Tia Dalma: The compass you bartered from me it can't lead you to this?
Jack Sparrow: Maybe.
Tia Dalma: Ah, Jack Sparrow doesn't know what he wants.


Elizabeth Swann: [to Jack] Curiosity. You're going to want it. You're going to want to know what it tastes like.


Jack Sparrow: I am chief! Want big fire!


Pintel: You know you can't read.
Ragetti: It's the Bible, you get credit for trying.


Pintel: Pull loose the mooring line!
Ragetti: He's got me eye! I've got to get it back.
Pintel: Well how'd you get it the last time?


Jack Sparrow: Mr. Gibbs, it seems we have a need to travel upriver.
Gibbs: By "need" do you mean a trifling need, a fleeting need, more of a passing fancy?
Jack Sparrow: No. I mean a resolute and unyielding need.


Jack Sparrow: [heavily] It's only a ship, mate.


Elizabeth Swann: [to Lord Beckett] Consider into your calculations that you robbed me of my wedding night.


Ragetti: [studies his upside-down Bible intently, then looks up] Well, I say it was divine providence what escaped us from jail.
Pintel: And *I* say it was me bein' clever.
[turns to the dog with the keys]
Pintel: Ain't that right, Poochie?
Ragetti: How do you know it wasn't divine providence what inspired you to *be* clever?


Hadras: [chuckles evilly] Your bravery is wasted. I shall pry the chest from your cold... dead... hands.
Norrington: [looks around, then tosses the empty chest into Hadras' hands] Here you go!


Davey Jones: [after watching the Kraken devour Jack] Jack Sparrow... Our debt is settled.


Palifico: The Captain goes down with his ship.


Maccus: Turns out not even Jack Sparrow can best the devil!


Cotton's Parrot: [Squawk] Don't eat me! Don't eat me!
Will Turner: [looks bewildered] I'm not going to eat you!


Davey Jones: You are neither dead nor dying. What is your purpose here?
Will Turner: [quickly] Jack Sparrow sent me to settle his debt.
Davey Jones: What is your purpose here?
Will Turner: Jack Sparrow? Sent me to settle his debt?


Jack Sparrow: You cannot let him near the chest, man, trust me on this. You can mistrust me less than you can mistrust him. Trust me.


Gibbs: Where's the Commodore?
Jack Sparrow: He fell behind.
Gibbs: [solemnly] My prayers be with him.
[suddenly brightens]
Gibbs: Best not wallow in our grief!


Elizabeth Swann: Why doesn't your compass work?
Jack Sparrow: ...My compass works just fine.


Gibbs: Mark me words, what bodes ill for Jack Sparrow bodes ill for us all.


Lord Cutler Beckett: A marriage interrupted... or fate intervenes?


Captain Bellamy: Oh and, uh, she's probably naked.


Ragetti: He's got me eye.


Norrington: Do excuse me while I kill the man who ruined my life.
Will Turner: Be my guest.
Jack Sparrow: Let us examine that claim for a moment, former Commodore, shall we? Who was it at the very moment you had a notorious pirate safely behind bars, saw fit to free said pirate and take your dearly beloved all to hisself, eh? So whose fault is it *really* that you've ended up a rumpot deckhand what takes orders from pirates?
Norrington: ENOUGH!
[Jack somersaults off roof, Norrington turns to Will]
Norrington: Unfortunately Mr. Turner, he's right!


Jack Sparrow: Have you not met Will Turner? He's noble, heroic - terrific soprano. Worth at least four... maybe three and a half. And did I happen to mention... he's in love? With a girl. Due to be married. Betrothed. Dividing him from her and her from him would only be half as cruel as actually allowing them to be joined in holy matrimony, eh?


Jack Sparrow: Darling, I am truly unhappy to have to tell you this, but through an unfortunate and entirely unforeseeable series of circumstances that had nothing whatsoever to do with me, poor Will has been press-ganged into Davy Jones's crew.


Jack Sparrow: [to Bootstrap] And to what do I owe the pleasure of your carbunkle?


Davey Jones: Do you fear... death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare, all your sins punished?


Ragetti: [balancing a shovel] I could join the circus!


Norrington: So am I *worthy* to sail under Captain Jack Sparrow? Or should I just kill you now?


Jack Sparrow: [to Pintel and Ragetti] Guard the boat, mind the tide... don't touch my dirt.


Jack Sparrow: [Jack looks at the sleeping crew] As you were, gents.


Gibbs: ...Commodore?
Norrington: [irritably] No, not anymore, weren't you listening?


Jack Sparrow: How did you get here?
Will Turner: Sea turtles, mate. A pair of them strapped to my feet.
Jack Sparrow: Not so easy, is it?


Elizabeth Swann: You came back. I always knew you were a good man.


Davey Jones: Let them taste the triple guns.
Crewmember: Aye, Captain.


Davey Jones: I *am* the sea!


Tia Dalma: A woman. He fell in love.
Gibbs: No, no I heard it was the sea he fell in love with.
Tia Dalma: Same story, different version and all are true. See it was a woman, as changing and harsh and untameable as the sea. Him never stopped loving her. But the pain had caused him was too much to live with, but not enough to cause him to die.
Will Turner: What exactly did he put into the chest?
Tia Dalma: Him heart.
Ragetti: Literally or figuratively?
Pintel: He couldn't literally put his heart in a chest, could he?
Tia Dalma: It was not worth feeling what small, fleeting joy life brings. And so him carved out him heart, lock it down in a chest and hide the chest from the world. The key, he keep with him at all times.


Gibbs: So, we're setting out to find whatever this key unlocks?
Jack Sparrow: No, we don't have the key. We can't open whatever it is it unlocks, so what purpose would be served in finding whatever need be unlocked, which we don't have, without first having found the key what unlocks it?


Will Turner: [the crew members are hanging off in two cages near the cliffs and are climbing back up] Hurry! It'll take all of us to crew the Pearl!
Leech: [Leech shouts across at him] Actually, you wouldn't need everyone! Six would do!
[pause]
Leech: Oh, dear.


'Bootstrap' Bill Turner: The die is cast. I bid three twos.


Will Turner: This... is going to save Elizabeth?
Jack Sparrow: How much do you know about Davey Jones?
Will Turner: Not much.
Jack Sparrow: Yeah, it's gonna save Elizabeth.


Jack Sparrow: Gentlemen, what do keys do?
Leech: Keys... unlock... *things*?


Elizabeth Swann: Let's just pull out our swords and start banging away at each other!


Gibbs: We've only got half a dozen barrels of powder!
Will Turner: Then load the rum!
[long silence; crew stops working]
Gibbs: Aye! The rum too!


Will Turner: What vexes all men?
Tia Dalma: What, indeed.
Gibbs: Well, the sea!
Pintel: Sums!
Ragetti: The dichotomy of good and evil.
Jack Sparrow: A woman.


Pintel: ...I always heard it said "kray-kin"
Ragetti: What? with a long A? Na-na-na-na-no-no no "Krah-ken"'s how it's pronounced in the original Scandinavian, and "Krakken"'s closer to that.
Pintel: Well we ain't original Scandinavians, are we?
Ragetti: It's a mythological creature, I can calls it what I wants!


Pintel: [watching Norrington, Will and Jack fight whilst Elizabeth is screaming and throwing rocks] How'd this go all screwy?
Ragetti: Well, each man wants the chest for hisself, don't 'e? Mr. Norrington, I think, is trying to regain a bit of honor. Old Jack's looking to trade it, to save his own skin. And Turner there, I think 'e's trying to settle some unresolved business twixt him and his twice-cursed pirate father.
Pintel: Sad, isn't it?


Jack Sparrow: Where is it? Where is the thump-thump?


[first lines]
Elizabeth Swann: Will, why is this happening?
Will Turner: I don't know, but you look beautiful.
Elizabeth Swann: I think it's bad luck for the bride to see the groom before the wedding.


Jack Sparrow: [to Elizabeth about Will who's knocked out] Leave 'im lie... unless you're planning to use him to hit somethin' with.


Gibbs: [after Jack shoots the monkey] You know that won't do any good.
Jack Sparrow: It does me.


Governor Weatherby Swann: Don't worry, we'll get you out of there. Now, where is that dog with the keys?


Jack Sparrow: My incredibly intuitive sense of the female creature tells me that you are troubled.


Will Turner: If we can outrun them, we can take them. Let's turn around and fight.
Jack Sparrow: Why fight when you can negotiate?


Lord Cutler Beckett: I'm listening.
[Elizabeth holds a gun to his face]
Lord Cutler Beckett: I'm listening intently.


Davey Jones: Let no joyful voice be heard! Let no man look up at the sky with hope! And let this day be cursed by we who ready to wake... the Kraken!
'Bootstrap' Bill Turner: No!


Will Turner: I challenge Davy Jones!


Elizabeth Swann: James Norrington, what has the world done to you?


Elizabeth Swann: It's real!
Norrington: My God. You actually were telling the truth.
Jack Sparrow: I do that quite a lot. Yet people are always surprised.
Will Turner: With good reason.


Tia Dalma: You have a touch of destiny about you, William Turner.
Will Turner: You know me?
Tia Dalma: You want to know me.
Jack Sparrow: There'll be no knowing here! We came here for help and were not leaving without it
[to Tia]
Jack Sparrow: I thought I knew you...


Cotton's Bird: [squawk] Walk the plank!
Jack Sparrow: [pulls out gun and points it at the bird] What did the bird say?


Elizabeth Swann: Oh! Oh, the heat!
[pretends to faint]


[last lines]
Barbossa: So tell me, what's become of my ship?


Elizabeth Swann: I've had it! I've had it with wobbly-legged, rum soaked PIRATES!


Will Turner: Jack...? Jack Sparrow? I can honestly say I'm glad to see you.


'Bootstrap' Bill Turner: The Bo'sun prides himself on being able to cleave flesh from bone with every strike of the lash.
Will Turner: So I'm to understand what you just did was an act of compassion?
'Bootstrap' Bill Turner: Yes.


Lord Cutler Beckett: Every man has a price which he will willingly accept, even for that which he hopes never to sell.


Jack Sparrow: No worries! Tia Dalma and I go way back... thick as thieves, nigh inseparable we are... were... have been... before...
Gibbs: I'll watch yer back.
Jack Sparrow: It's me front I'm worried about.
Gibbs: [to Will] Mind the boat.
Will Turner: [to Ragetti] Mind the boat.
Ragetti: [to Pintel] Mind the boat.
Pintel: [to Marty] Mind the boat.
Marty: [to Cotton's parrot] Mind the boat.
Cotton's Parrot: [to Cotton] Mind the boat.
[It flies off, leaving Cotton to pout and sit back down in the boat]


Davey Jones: I wonder Sparrow, can you live with this? Can you condemn an innocent man - a friend - to a lifetime of servitude in your name while you roam free?
Jack Sparrow: ...Yep! I'm good wiv it. Shall we seal it in blood? I mean, er... ink?


Elizabeth Swann: [chains Jack to the pearl] It's after you, not the ship... It's not us. This is the only way, don't you see?
[leans in as if to kiss him, then pulls away]
Elizabeth Swann: I'm not sorry.
Jack Sparrow: [smiles] Pirate.


Jack Sparrow: So how many is that?
Gibbs: Including those four? That brings us to... four.


Elizabeth Swann: You're a good man, Jack Sparrow.


Jack Sparrow: Is this a dream?
'Bootstrap' Bill Turner: No.
Jack Sparrow: Thought not. If it were, there'd be rum.
'Bootstrap' Bill Turner: [hands him a bottle of rum]


Davey Jones: You have a debt to pay. You've been captain of the Black Pearl for thirteen years. That was our agreement.
Jack Sparrow: Technically, I was only captain for two years, then I was viciously mutinied upon.
Davey Jones: Then you were a poor captain, but a captain nonetheless! Have you not introduced yourself all these years as "Captain Jack Sparrow"?


Gibbs: Lift it! Lift it like it were a lady's skirt!


Ragetti: Salvaging is saving, in a manner of speaking.
Pintel: There's the truth of it!


Will Turner: ...then I'll return here to marry you.
Elizabeth Swann: Properly.
Will Turner: Eagerly. If you'll still have me.
Elizabeth Swann: If it weren't for these bars, I'd have you already.


Tia Dalma: You know I require payment.
Jack Sparrow: I brought payment. Look.
[brings out the monkey in a cage, shoots him]
Jack Sparrow: An undead monkey! Top that!
Tia Dalma: [releases the monkey from the cage] The payment is fair...


Jack Sparrow: [to Norrington] What are you doing here? You look bloody awful.
Norrington: You hired me. I can't help it if your standards are lax.
Jack Sparrow: You smell funny.


Davey Jones: Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different?


Gibbs: [as Jack steps onto the ship] Not quite according to plan...
Jack Sparrow: Complications arose, ensued, were overcome.


Elizabeth Swann: I'm here to find the man I love!
Jack Sparrow: I'm deeply flattered, lad, but my first and only love is the sea.


Will Turner: You look beautiful.
Elizabeth Swann: I think it's bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding.


Jack Sparrow: Savvy?


Lord Cutler Beckett: A certain pirate named Jack Sparrow.
Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann: *Captain!*
Elizabeth Swann: *Captain* Jack Sparrow.


Jack Sparrow: Mr. Gibbs... I feel sullied and unusual.


Gibbs: [Jack shows him a cloth containing a picture of a key which he has just risked his life for] It's a key!
Jack Sparrow: No! Much more better. It is a *drawing* of a key.


Pintel: You know you can't read.
Ragetti: It's the Bible, you get credit for trying!
Pintel: Pretendin' to read the Bible's a lie! That's a mark against
[points to the sky]
Pintel: !


Jack Sparrow: [to Norrington] Still rooting for you, mate!


[repeated line]
Jack Sparrow: Oh bugger.


Jack Sparrow: [empties bottle of rum] Why is the rum always gone?
Jack Sparrow: [stands up and staggers drunkenly] Oh... that's why.


Jack Sparrow: [to cannibals] *Alas*, my children! This is the day you shall always remember as the day that you almost...
[gets splashed by a wave]
Jack Sparrow: ...Captain Jack Sparrow.


Jack Sparrow: [sing-song] I've got a jar of dirt! I've got a jar of dirt! And guess what's inside it?


Gibbs: Heave! Heave like you're being paid for it!


Will Turner: What about Jack? I can't leave without him!
[sees Jack getting chased by cannibals]
Will Turner: Time to go


'Bootstrap' Bill Turner: [to Jack Sparrow] You won't be able to talk your way out of this one.


Elizabeth Swann: There will come a time when you have a chance to do the right thing.
Jack Sparrow: I love those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by.


Jack Sparrow: [to Elizabeth] You know, these clothes do not flatter you at all. It should be a dress or nothing. I happen to have no dress in my cabin.