105 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Quotes (2026) #3

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Steve Zissou: If you're not against me, don't cross this line! If yes, do.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Anne-Marie Sakowitz: I think it's criminal that Steve allowed this to happen, by which I mean illegal. We're being led on an illegal suicide mission by a selfish maniac.
Klaus Daimler: I hear what you're saying, but I think you misjudge the guy.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Alistair Hennessey: How are things going with your - what are you calling it? Leopard fish?
Steve Zissou: Jaguar shark.
Alistair Hennessey: Jaguar shark! So tell me - does it really exist?
Steve Zissou: [hesitant] You know, Allie, I don't want to give away the ending.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Steve Zissou: Are you sure?
Klaus Daimler: Yes, I am.
Steve Zissou: I don't understand. Why?
Klaus Daimler: What do you mean?... Wait a second. What are we doing? You said cross the line if.
Steve Zissou: Cross the line if you're going to quit.
Klaus Daimler:

Oh... Do it again. I misunderstood.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Eleanor Zissou: Oh, Shit. What do you want?
Steve Zissou: Do you mind if I butter you up a little before I answer that question?
Eleanor Zissou: Yes, I do. Tell me now.
Steve Zissou: [takes a deep breath] I need some money to get the boat out of hock and rescue my bond company stooge who got kidnapped. Could

we ask your parents to loan it to me?
Eleanor Zissou: No.
Steve Zissou: Okay. Could I go ahead and butter you up anyway? It took me two and a half hours to get out here.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Steve Zissou: I wanted to give you a heads-up on what I thought of the piece...
Jane Winslett-Richardson: You read it. What did you think?
Steve Zissou: Well, I was a little upset at first. I mean, obviously people are going to think I'm a showboat, and a little bit of a prick. But then I thought... that's me. I said those things, I

did those things. I can live with that. You're a good writer, Jane.
Jane Winslett-Richardson: It's the effing cover.
Steve Zissou: Thatta girl.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

[while robbing Alistair Hennessey's underwater sea-lab]
Vladimir Wolodarsky: Steve, one of the interns just fell down the stairs with the main tracking processor.
Steve Zissou: All right, just make sure we steal the backup.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Steve Zissou: If we don't handle this right, we're gonna all get murdered... including her unborn British child.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Steve Zissou: You know I'm not good at apologizing, so I'll just skip it if it's all the same to you.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Steve Zissou: [referring to the shark that ate his friend, Esteban] I wonder if it remembers me.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Ned Plimpton: You don't know me, you don't want to know me... I'm just a character in your stupid film.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Steve Zissou: You really think it's cool for you to hit the sauce with a bun in the oven?

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

[Steve opens the safe which contained Ned's inheritance money, but finds it to be empty, with a hole burned on the other side]
Steve Zissou: That's it. I'm retired.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Klaus Daimler: So, you really think you're a Zissou.
Ned Plimpton: I don't know.
Klaus Daimler: Well, you traveled a long way for "I don't know," sonny.
Ned Plimpton: That's true. But it's important to me.
Klaus Daimler: Yeah? Well, there are a lot of things that are important to some

people around here, sonny.
Ned Plimpton: Klaus, don't call me "sonny."
Klaus Daimler: And one more thing: It's the Steve Zissou show, not the Ned show.
[Klaus slaps Ned in the face]
Klaus Daimler: You hear me?
Ned Plimpton: Yes, I do.
[Klaus starts walking away]
Ned

Plimpton: Klaus?
Klaus Daimler: Ja?
Ned Plimpton: If you ever touch me again, I will kick your goddamn teeth out. Is *that* understood?
Klaus Daimler: Not if I don't see you first, sonny.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Alistair Hennessey: I'm so pissed I want to spit!

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Steve Zissou: [pulling a gun on Jane Winslett-Richardson] Does this seem fake?

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Steve Zissou: This bull dyke's got something against us.
Ned Plimpton: I don't think she's a lesbian. She's pregnant.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

[on the lightning-strike rescue op, Team Zissou looks at the ruin of Hotel Citroën]
Steve Zissou: What a waste. They had a bartender here, Kino, made the best rum cannonball I've ever tasted.

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