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Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito, and Kathleen Turner in The Jewel of the Nile (1985)

Michael Douglas: Jack

The Jewel of the Nile

Michael Douglas credited as playing...

Jack

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Quotes14

  • Jack T. Colton: I thought you said you wanted to sail around the world with me?
  • Joan Wilder: Well, I do, but, but not all of it this week. I mean, Jack, this is just becoming a blur. Exotic ports. And great parties. And spectacular sunsets. It's not enough.
  • Jack T. Colton: What the hell are you talkin' about? I don't even know who the hell you are!
  • Tarak: You must come with me to help find the Jewel.
  • Ralph: [face lights up] Jewel? What jewel?
  • Tarak: The Jewel of the Nile. Our most pricess Jewel. Omar stole my people's Jewel. Omar is a very bad man.
  • Ralph: Yeah, that scum, I spit on him! Jack... buddy? Let's help this nice man get his jewel back.
  • Tarak: Yes... yes?
  • Jack T. Colton: Here, I don't know where you're from or what you're on, but I'm sailing my boat tonight.
  • Tarak: No! You must come to help find the Jewel now! Before Omar kill many people! As long as Omar have the Jewel... nothing can stop him.
  • Jack T. Colton: Look, I'm going on the boat. You guys can do what you want.
  • [behind Jack, his sailboat blows up; Jack slowly turns around looking stunned while both Tarak and Ralph are stunned as well]
  • Ralph: The boat blew up.
  • Jack T. Colton: My boat blew up?
  • Ralph: The boat blew up!
  • Jack T. Colton: Everything's gone.
  • Ralph: Who are you? The prince of darkness? Don't you got any friends?
  • Tarak: Your woman is in danger too. I will take you to him.
  • Ralph: I'm comin' too!
  • Jack T. Colton: The hell you are!
  • Ralph: Look, you owe me Colton. So, where ever you're going, I'm going. Where we going?
  • [Omar has put Jack and Joan in a deathtrap copied from one of Joan's own books]
  • Jack Colton: So how'd they get out?
  • Joan Wilder: What?
  • Jack Colton: In "The Savage Secret".
  • Joan Wilder: Oh. Um... Jesse had a knife hidden in his boot. You wouldn't happen to have a knife, would you?
  • Jack Colton: I'm not even wearing underwear.
  • Jack T. Colton: I'm sorry you had such a tough time. Ah, how 'bout a hundred bucks?
  • Ralph: A hundred bucks? I'll give you a one-way ticket to harp land. No more jokes! What'd you do with it?
  • Jack T. Colton: What are you talkin' about?
  • Ralph: The stone, moron!
  • Tarak: You are guests of Omar. Find for us the jewel. Accept your destiny!
  • Jack T. Colton: Destiny, my ass.
  • Ralph: You hook up with a bunch of juju beads, you see what happens?
  • Jack T. Colton: Just take you're lead from me and you'll be fine.
  • Ralph: What are we going to do? Walk right through the center of town?
  • Jack T. Colton: I'm going to put you up a camel's ass - for openers.
  • Ralph: I think I might like it.
  • [while surrounded by native Africans]
  • Jack Colton: Just keep smiling. Maybe they'll think we're with National Geographic.
  • Jack Colton: It's looking more like 90-10, eh Kumquat?
  • [Jack, Joan and the Jewel are under fire from Omar's soldiers]
  • Jack Colton: Okay, now let's go.
  • Joan Wilder: [refering to the Jewel] Wait a minute, Jack. He's coming with us.
  • Jack Colton: Don't start with me, Joan! I've come halfway across Africa to rescue you!
  • Joan Wilder: Rescue me? I was doing fine without you!
  • Jewel: [to Jack] Please, I am guide. I can help you.
  • Jack Colton: I don't need a guide! I need a miracle!
  • Jack Colton: Why does everything got to be your way?
  • Joan Wilder: My way? It wasn't my idea to take off and sail around the world with you on your boat for the last six months!
  • Jewel: I like this. You talk to each other like this often?
  • Jack Colton: [to the Jewel] Well, let me tell you what I had to put up. Three months ago, we're moored off the Canary Islands, midnight, sound asleep. A boat of three crazed Joan Wilder fans decide that they want the anchor of the Angeline for a souvenir! We were drifting for days!
  • Joan Wilder: Well, do you remember the incident at Gibraltar, Jack?
  • Jack Colton: Oh, come on. Not that again.
  • Joan Wilder: He has to meet me at the governor's mansion for a formal dinner, and you show up with the entire Italian National League Basketball team!
  • Jack Colton: Hey, they were hungry.
  • Jack Colton: [Jack points flair gun at the F-16 Pilot] OK, flyboy. Your estimated time of departure is right now!
  • Jack Colton: All right!, If we get out of this alive, I'm going to kill you. Let's go, come on!
  • Joan Wilder: Jack!
  • Jack T. Colton: Hold tight, I'm coming!

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