Rose DeWitt-Bucater – Character Quotes

— Paris for me... was more than living on the streets... and trying to put it on the paper, do you know what I mean?
— My dream has always been to just run away and become an artist... living in a garret, poor but free.
— You wouldn't last two days. There's no hot water and hardly ever any caviar.
— I happen to hate caviar. And I hate people telling me what dreams I should and shouldn't have. I'm sorry. You're right. Well, all right. Everybody expects me to be this delicate little flower, which I'm not. I'm sturdy. I'm strong as a horse. I'm here to do something, not just sit around and be decorative.

Darling, now you can keep us both locked in your safe. Rose

Mr. Andrews... I saw the iceberg and I see it in your eyes... please, tell me the truth.

It was the ship of dreams to everyone else. To me, it was a slave ship, taking me back to America in chains. Outwardly, I was everything a well brought up girl should be. Inside, I was screaming.

— What's the artist's name?
— Something Picasso.
— Something Picasso... He won't amount to a thing. He won't, trust me.

— I know what you must be thinking. Poor little rich girl, what does she know about misery?
— No, no, that's not what I was thinking. What I was thinking was, what could've happened to this girl to make her think she had no way out?

— Jack, must you go?
— Time for me to row with the other slaves.

— You liked this woman. You used her several times.
— She had beautiful hands.
— I think you must have had a love affair with her...
— No, no! Just with her hands.

— Stupid, really. I was leaning over and I slipped. I was leaning far over to see the... Propellers, and I slipped. And I would have gone overboard but Mr. Dawson here... saved me. And almost
went over himself. <...>
— You'll want to tie those. It's interesting... the young lady slipped so suddenly... and you still had time to remove your jacket and your shoes.

Col. Archibald Gracie: — Perhaps a little something to the boy?
Cal Hockley: — Of course. Mr. Lovejoy, i think 20 dollars should do it.
Rose Dewitt Bukater: — Ir that the going rate for saving a woman you love?

The others were gracious and curious about the man who'd saved my life. But my mother looked at him like an insect.