Titanic (1997)

Billy Zane: Cal Hockley

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• 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.

• 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!

• 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] 

• 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?

• [scoffs as Rose's paintings are being unpacked] 

  Cal Hockley : God, not those finger paintings again. They certainly were a waste of money.

  Rose : The difference between Cal's taste in art and mine is that I have some. They're fascinating. It's like being inside a dream or something. There's truth but no logic.

  Trudy Bolt : What's the artist's name?

  Rose : Something Picasso.

  Cal Hockley : [scoffs]  Something Picasso? He won't amount to a thing.

  [pause] 

  Cal Hockley : He won't, trust me. At least they were cheap.

• Ruth : So this is the ship they say is unsinkable.

  Cal Hockley : It is unsinkable. God himself could not sink this ship!

• 1st Officer William Murdoch : Stop pushing! Stay back!

  Tommy Ryan : Will you give us a chance to live, you limey bastard?

  1st Officer William Murdoch : I'll shoot any man that tries to get past me! Get back!

  Tommy Ryan : Bastard!

  1st Officer William Murdoch : Get Back!

  Cal Hockley : We had a deal, damn you!

  1st Officer William Murdoch : [throws a pack of money Cal had used to bribe him earlier]  Your money can't save you any more than it can save me. Get Back!

• Cal Hockley : We'll both have the lamb, medium-rare with very little mint sauce.

  [to Rose] 

  Cal Hockley : You like lamb, don't you sweet-pea?

  [Rose smiles sarcastically] 

  Molly Brown : You gonna cut her meat for her, too, Cal?

• Cal Hockley : Where are you going? To him? What, to be a whore to a gutter rat?

  Rose : I'd rather be his whore than your wife.

• Lovejoy : What could possibly be funny?

  Cal Hockley : I put the diamond in the coat. And I put the coat on her!

• Cal Hockley : [takes money out from his safe and puts it into the inner pockets of his suit jacket, takes the diamond necklace from the safe and puts it into the pocket of his trench coat]  I make my own luck.

  Lovejoy : [shows his gun opening the right jacket coat]  So do I.

• Rose : I am not a foreman in one of your mills that you can command. I am your fiancée.

  Cal Hockley : My fian... my fiancée! Yes, you are, and my wife. My wife in practice if not yet by law, so you will honor me. You will honor me the way a wife is required to honor a husband. Because I will not be made a fool, Rose. Is this in any way unclear?

  Rose : No.

• Rose : [looking at the Titanic for the first time]  I don't see what all of the fuss is about. It doesn't look any bigger than the Mauritania.

  Cal Hockley : You can be blasé about some things, Rose, but not about Titanic. It's over a hundred feet longer than the Mauritania and far more luxurious!

• Cal Hockley : Any room for a gentleman, gentlemen?

• Cal Hockley : I hope you enjoy your time together!

• Jack : There's, uh, there's no arrangement is there?

  Cal Hockley : No, there is. Not that you'll benefit much from it. I always win Jack, one way or another.

• Ruth : Tell us of the accomodations in steerage, Mr. Dawson. I hear they're quite good on the ship.

  Jack : The best I've seen, Ma'am. Hardly any rats.

  [laughter from the table] 

  Cal Hockley : Mr. Dawson is joining us from the Third Class. He was of some assistance to my fiancée last night.

  Rose : It turns out that Mr. Dawson is quite a fine artist. He was kind enough to show me some of us work today.

  Cal Hockley : Rose and I differ somewhat in our opinion of fine art...

  [to Jack] 

  Cal Hockley : Not to impune you work, sir.

  Jack : [Jack shrugs it off as no offense; Jack looks down at his utensils, confused as which to use, he turns to Molly Brown]  Are these all for me?

  Molly Brown : Just start from the outside and work your way in.

  Ismay : He has every rivet in it, don't you, Thomas?

  Rose : Your ship is a wonder, Mr. Andrews, truly.

  Thomas Andrews : Thank you, Rose.

  Waiter : [to Jack]  How do you take your caviar, sir?

  Jack : No caviar for me, thanks. Never did like it much.

  Ruth : And where exactly do you live, Mr. Dawson?

  Jack : Well, right now, my address is the RMS Titanic, after that, I'm on God's good humor.

  Ruth : And how is it you have means to travel?

  Jack : I work my way from place to place, you know, tramp steamers and such, but I won my ticket on Titanic here in a lucky hand of poker, a very lucky hand.

  Col. Archibald Gracie : All life is a game of luck.

  Cal Hockley : A real man makes his own luck, Archie. Right, Dawson.

  Jack : Mm-hmm.

  Ruth : And you find that sort of rootless existence appealing, do you?

  Jack : Well, yes, ma'am, I do. I mean, I've got everything I need right here with me. I've got air in my lungs and a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's going to happen or...

  [Eating of piece of bread] 

  Jack : ... 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.

  [to the waiter] 

  Jack : I'll take some more of that.

  [Back to the table] 

  Jack : I figured life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You never know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you.

  [Seeing Cal getting ready to light up a cigarette, he throws Cal his lighter] 

  Jack : Here you go, Cal.

  [Back to the table] 

  Jack : To make each day count.

  Molly Brown : Well said, Jack.

  Col. Archibald Gracie : Here, here.

  Rose : [Raising her glass for a toast]  To making it count.

  [the table joins in on the toast] 

• Cal Hockley : Rose is displeased... what to do?

• Cal Hockley : [Rose is getting ready for bed when Cal walks in unannounced]  I know you've been melancholy. I don't pretend to know why.

  [he walks over, produces a gift box and closes Rose's music box while he's at it] 

  Cal Hockley : I intended to save this until the engagement gala next week but I thought tonight.

  [Cal opens the gift box and inside is a stunning diamond necklace] 

  Rose : Good gracious.

  Cal Hockley : [chuckles]  Perhaps as a reminder of my feelings for you.

  Rose : Is it a...?

  Cal Hockley : Diamond? Yes.

  [he takes it out and puts it on Rose] 

  Cal Hockley : 56 carats to be exact. It was worn by Louis XVI and they called it "Le Coeur de la Mer".

  [together with Rose] 

  Cal Hockley : "The Heart of the Ocean".

  Rose : "The Heart of the Ocean".

  Cal Hockley : Yes.

  [impressed that she knew that] 

  Rose : It's overwhelming.

  Cal Hockley : Well, it's for royalty. We are royalty, Rose. You know, there's nothing I couldn't give you. There's nothing I'd deny you... if you'd not deny me. Oh, open your heart to me, Rose.

• Cal Hockley : This is absurd. It's a ship. There's only so many places she could be. Lovejoy, find her.

• Cal Hockley : [to Jack, after he mistakenly believes he molested Rose]  Completely unacceptable! What made you think you could put your hands on my fiancée? Look at me, you filth!