30 Iconic Quotes From James Cameron’s Titanic to Use as Your Next Instagram Caption
James Cameron's Titanic may no longer hold the record as the highest-grossing film of all time, but it remains a pop culture marvel that everyone should see at least once. Believe us when we say it's worth the whopping three hour and 14 minute runtime.
Released in 1997, the movie is the ultimate genre-buster, containing an epic romance between star-crossed lovers with the spectacle of disaster, taking the real story of the sinking of the Titanic and transforming it into a love story for the ages. Even nearly 30 years later, it's just as resonant as ever, fully earning its title as the first film to ever gross $1 billion at the box office. We think that's worth celebrating, and below are 30 of its most iconic quotes (which happen to double as excellent photo captions).
For reminiscing about your favorite disaster:
"You know, Titanic is not just A shipwrick, Titanic is the shipwreck. It's the Mount Everest of shipwrecks."
-Brock Lovett
For the pic so old you're barely recognizable:-
"The woman in the picture is me."
-Rose Calvert
For your most extravagant jewelry piece:
"It was a dreadful, heavy thing. I only wore it this once."
-Rose Calvert
Foe exaggerating the wait:
"It's been 84 years…"
-Rose Calvert
For donning an all-black ensemble:
"I felt like black."
-Rose DeWitt Bukater
For the throwback to a time you weren't your most authentic self:
"Outwardly I was everything a well brought up girl should be. Inside, I was screaming."
-Rose Calvert
For heading back to the states after time away:
"Goin' home… to the land o' the free and the home of the real hot dogs!"
-Jack Dawson
For appreciating abstract art:
"They're fascinating. Like in a dream… there's truth without logic."
-Rose DeWitt Bukater
For when someone's grand possessions are clearly compensating for something:
"Do you know of Dr. Freud? His ideas about the male preoccupation with size might be of particular interest to you."
-Rose DeWitt Bukater
For feeling on top of the earth:
"I'm the king of the world!"
-Jack Dawson
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For when people keep making assumptions about you:
"Don't presume to tell me what I will and will not do. You don't know me."
-Rose DeWitt Bukater
(Titanic via Paramount Pictures)
For recognizing you're not an outdoorsy type:
"Sorry. Just… you look like kind of an indoor girl."
-Jack Dawson
For treating yourselves like the monarchs you are:
"It's for royalty. And we are royalty."
-Caledon Hockley
For reflecting on a life that was never real to you:
"It wasn't just one thing. It was everything. It was them, it was their whole world. And I was trapped in it, like an insect in amber."
-Rose DeWitt Bukater
For recognizing someone's incredible artistry:
"You have a gift … You do. You see people."
-Rose DeWitt Bukater
For when your mom absolutely does not approve of someone:
"My mother looked at him like an insect. A dangerous insect which must be squashed quickly."
-Rose Calvert
For looking much more pristine and put-together than usual:
"My, my, my… you shine up like a new penny."
-Molly Brown
For when your fortune changes:
"All life is a game of luck."
-Colonel Archibald Gracie
For heading back to reality:
"Time for my coach to turn back into a pumpkin."
-Jack Dawson
For when dancing is all about intuition:
"Just move with me. Don't think."
-Jack Dawson
(Titanic via Paramount Pictures)
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For when your gender puts you at a disadvantage:
"Of course it's unfair! We're women. Our choices are never easy."
-Ruth DeWitt Bukater
For when love makes you do silly things:
"Amore is'a not logical."
-Fabrizio De Rossi
For acknowledging the good and the bad:
"You're no picnic. You're a spoiled little brat even, but under that you're a strong, pure heart, and you're the most amazingly astounding girl I've ever known."
-Jack Dawson
For recognizing that someone needs to be free:
"They've got you in a glass jar like some butterfly, and you're goin' to die if you don't break out."
-Jack Dawson
(Titanic via Paramount Pictures)
For posing for a live drawing:
"I want you to draw me like your French girls."
-Rose DeWitt Bukater
For whining about the water, even though it's nowhere near freezing:
"It's so cold."
-Rose DeWitt Bukater
For knowing it's nowhere near the end:
"You're going to get out of this. You're going to go on and you're going to make babies and watch them grow and you're going to die an old lady, warm in your bed. Not here. Not this night. Do you understand me?"
-Jack Dawson
For making them promise to hold on:
"Never let go."
-Jack Dawson
For being a survivor:
"Yes, I lived. How awkward for you."
-Rose DeWitt Bukater
For always keeping a few things to yourself:
"A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets."
-Rose Calvert
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