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Geena Davis and Matthew Modine in Cutthroat Island (1995)

Matthew Modine: William Shaw

Cutthroat Island

Matthew Modine credited as playing...

William Shaw

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Quotes11

  • Morgan Adams: [about his sword fighting] Very pretty Mr. Shaw.
  • William Shaw: Thank you, ma'am. I had the good fortune to study with a grand master in Vienna.
  • Morgan Adams: Glasspoole!
  • Glasspoole: Aye!
  • Morgan Adams: [to Shaw] Now, stop diddling and kill the man.
  • William Shaw: Kill him? Bless me, we never got to that.
  • Morgan Adams: They're backwards.
  • William Shaw: I assure you ma'am, they're normal in every respect.
  • William Shaw: Congratulations, madam. There's another town you've destroyed.
  • William Shaw: It is hard to imagine which part of your life would require me to speak Latin.
  • William Shaw: Why don't *you* row?
  • Morgan Adams: Why don't you *swim*?
  • William Shaw: [after catching Morgan hanging from a rope] I wish I'd never learned Latin.
  • Morgan Adams: Give me the map.
  • William Shaw: Give me... a kiss first.
  • [Morgan has pilfered the governor's carriage and is being chased by British Royal soldiers, and a British Naval ship that canon fires at her. William is confused, thinking that the British is chasing him, unaware that Morgan is a pirate]
  • William Shaw: [shrieking] A SHIP! I find *myself* being *bombarded* by an *entire ship*!
  • Morgan Adams: Slave, I'm about to show you something. Reveal it to any other man, and you will wish you were back at Port Royal... with your head on the block and the axe in the air.
  • [Morgan reaches deep behind her belt buckle into the top of her breeches]
  • William Shaw: Thank you, but I've seen one before.
  • [last lines]
  • William Shaw: Where to, Morgan?
  • Morgan Adams: I told you, Madagascar.
  • William Shaw: But that's in Africa.
  • Morgan Adams: Then we best get busy. Mr. Trotter, take the crow's nest and watch for the next twelve hours.
  • Captain Trotter: Good as done, ma'am.
  • Morgan Adams: Mr. Blair, prepare to come about. Steer south to south-east.
  • Mr. Blair: Onto your stations, men. Prepare to come about, south to south-east...
  • Morgan Adams: And Mr. Shaw, I'd like to see you in my cabin... immediately.
  • [repeated line]
  • William Shaw: MORGAN!

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