Willem Dafoe credited as playing...
Klaus Daimler
- Jane Winslett-Richardson: Are we - are we safe in here?
- Steve Zissou: I doubt it.
- Klaus Daimler: Do you still want to blow him up?
- Steve Zissou: No, we're out of dynamite anyway.
- Eleanor Zissou: It is beautiful Steve.
- Steve Zissou: Yea, it's pretty good isn't it... I wonder if it remembers me...
- Steve Zissou: We'll split into two groups. I'll take Ned, Ogata, and Wolodarsky.
- Klaus Daimler: [pouting] Thanks. Thanks a lot for not picking me.
- Steve Zissou: We're in the middle of a lightning strike rescue op, Klaus. What's the deal?
- Klaus Daimler: I'm sick of being on "B" squad.
- Steve Zissou: You might be on "B" Squad, But you're the "B" Squad leader. Don't you know me and Esteban always thought of you as our baby brother?
- Klaus Daimler: I've always thought of you two as my dads. Please don't let any one make fun of me for saying so.
- Steve Zissou: I can't guarantee that, Klausie, but I'll try. Can we get on with the maneuvers now?
- [Steve bursts to the surface from an underwater dive, shouting hysterically]
- Klaus Daimler: Steve!
- Steve Zissou: Vikram, is that thing rolling?
- Klaus Daimler: Where's Esteban?
- [Written text of what Steve is shouting rolls onto the screen as he speaks]
- Steve Zissou: Encounter with highly abnormal shark-like fish! Ten meters in length! Unfamiliar dorsal features! Spots all over it! I shot it dorsally with a homing dart!
- [shouts]
- Steve Zissou: Esteban was eaten!
- Klaus Daimler: Is he dead?
- Steve Zissou: Esteban was eaten! Check the scanning monitor before it dives too deep!
- Klaus Daimler: He was bitten?
- Steve Zissou: Eaten!
- Klaus Daimler: [shocked] He was swallowed whole?
- Steve Zissou: No! *Chewed*!
- Klaus Daimler: [to the camera] He's got hydrogen psychosis, the crazy-eye!
- [camera zooms in on Steve's face - his eyes are dilated ridiculously large]
- Klaus Daimler: Steve! They say you've got crazy-eye!
- [to the camera]
- Klaus Daimler: Get him out of the fucking water!
- Steve Zissou: [shouting] Check the scanning monitor!
- Klaus Daimler: Steve!
- [Klaus jumps into the water to get Steve, still wearing all of his normal clothes and not bothering to take his shoes off]
- Steve Zissou: [shouting] Esteban! Esteban! Esteban!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Steve Zissou: [after pirates have boarded his ship, being bound and blindfolded]
- [starts chewing through the rope binding his hands together]
- Steve Zissou: Here we go.
- Klaus Daimler: Steve, what are you doing?
- Steve Zissou: [stands up and turns toward the nearest pirate] I said get your ass the hell off of my boat!