Captain Jack Sparrow is a mysterious and eccentric pirate with a taste for rum and a hat fetish. For him, there is no right or wrong, there is simply his cause. His motivations are plain to see, and his greed and lust for treasure will drag him to hell and back. Even after witnessing first hand the effect of the curse of the Aztec gold, he can't help but try and pocket a medallion for himself.

Captain Jack was originally the captain of the Black Pearl, but because of his easy-going nature, he was betrayed by his crew and first mate, Barbossa. Jack was a victim of mutiny, lost his ship, and was marooned on an island with a pistol and a single shot. The tales of his escape were greatly exaggerated. The story goes that Jack created a raft out of sea turtles and humain hair (from his back) in order to escape. The truth? He was stranded for only three days, during which time he spent lying on the beach drinking rum. The rumrunners used the island as a cache and he was able to barter passage off with them.

Once off the island, it became his objective to take revenge out on Barbossa. Jack kept and saved that pistol with a single shot for ten years to use specifically on his mutinous first mate.

After comandeering a Naval Ship, searching out the Isla De Muerta with the son of William Turner, being marooned once more (this time with the pleasurable company of Elizabeth Swann) and conjuring up yet another miraculous escape, Jack got his revenge on Barbossa. Shortly after, he was captured by the Royal Navy and was sentanced to be hanged. Fortunately, Will Turner Jr, appreciating everything Jack had done for him, came to his rescue and Jack managed to reclaim the Black Pearl with his new crew under his command.

After being made cheif of an island where the natives plan to eat him, he once again escapes almost certain death. He goes in pursuit of a treasure which should surely satisfy his crew, who have been a little more than disappointed with the lack of payoff. The heart of Davy Jones, which is locked in a chest, the key to which is kept on the legendary Davy Jones himself. While the ability to control the seas (which the heart will give to its posessor) is enough for most people to seek it, Jack Sparrow has his own reasons for wanting the heart. Those being that he has a debt to settle with Davy Jones. In exchange for his soul, Jack was made captain of the Black Pearl for thirteen years. Since the thirteen years were up, Jack owes Davy Jones his soul... or 100 other souls. As it turns out, finding a hundred souls to barter with is not easy to come by.

After getting the key from Will, they go to retrieve the chest, which Jack has to fight for. After believing to have it hidden away in his jar of sand, he leaves to find Davy Jones to settle his debt. However, Norrington steals the heart without anyone noticing, and with no heart to control Davy Jones and the sea, the Pearl is left helpless to the Kraken, the legendary sea monster under Jones' control.

Elizabeth, who Jack has enjoyed being playful with, uses an under-handed, pirate-like move to save the crew. She gives him a much more than friendly kiss to distract him while she chains him to the boat, leaving him alone to the Kraken while the rest of the crew escape. Jack managees to free himself from the chains, but still goes down with the ship as it is consumed by the Kraken.

Jack Sparrow Highlights

Navy officer: That's got to be the best pirate I've ever seen.

Pintel: You. You're supposed to be dead!
Jack: Am I not? Hmm... Puhluley! Puhlulehvoos... parleli, parsmi, pasley, parle, parle...
Ragetti: Parley?
Jack: Parley! That's the one. Parley! Parley!
Pintel: Parley?! Damn to the depths whatever man thought up parley!
Jack: That would be the French.

Will: You cheated!
Jack: Pirate!

Jack: Put it away, son. It's not worth you getting beat again.
Will: You didn't beat me; you ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd kill you.
Jack: Then that's not much incentive for me to fight fair then, is it?

Barbossa: So you expect to leave me standing on some beach with nothing but a name and your word it's the one I need and watch you sail away on my ship?
Jack: No. I expect to leave you standing on some beach with absolutely no name at all, watching me sail away on my ship and then I'll shout the name back to you. Savvy?
Barbossa: But that still leaves us with the problem of me standing on some beach with naught but a name and your word it's the one I need.
Jack: Of the two of us I am the only one who hasn't committed mutiny, therefore my word is the one we'll be trusting. Although, I suppose I should be thanking you because in fact, if you hadn't betrayed me and left me to die, I would have an equal share in that curse same as you. Funny ol' world, in't?

Jack: One question about your business boy, or there's no use going. This girl, how far are you willing to go to save her?
Will: I'd die for her.
Jack: Oh, good. No worries, then.

Will: Jack!
Barbossa: S'not possible.
Jack: Not probable.
Will: Where's Elizabeth?
Jack: She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really except for Elizabeth who is, in fact, a woman.

Jack: Just hear me out, mate. You order your men to row out to the Dauntless; they do what they do best. Robert's your Uncle Fannie's your Aunt, there you are with two ships. The makings of your very own fleet. Course you'll take the grandest as your flagship and who's to argue? But what of the Pearl? Name me Captain, I'll sail under your colors, I'll give you ten percent of me plunder and you get to introduce yourself as...Commodore Barbossa. Savvy?

Barbossa: I want fifty percent of your plunder.
Jack: Fifteen.
Barbossa: Forty.
Jack: Twenty-five. And I'll buy you the hat, a really big one... Commodore.

Jack: Now as long as you're just hanging there, pay attention. The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or you can't. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you'll have to square with that someday. And me, for example, I can let you drown but I can't bring this ship into Tortuga all by me onesies, savvy? So... can you sail under the command of a pirate or can you not?

Jack: I'm actually feeling rather good about this. I think we've all arrived at a very special place, eh? Spiritually, ecumenically, grammatically? (to Norrington) I want you to know that I was rooting for you, mate. Know that. Elizabeth... it would never have worked between us, darling. I'm sorry. Will... nice hat.

Jack: Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest... Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.

Jack: I'll tell you mate, if every town in the world were like this one, no man would ever feel unwanted... Scarlet! (she slaps him) Not sure I deserved that. Giselle!
Giselle: Who was she?!
Jack: What? (she slaps him) I may have deserved that.

Jack: A wedding! I love weddings--drinks all around! ...I know. Clap him in irons, right?

Jack: You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?

Jack: You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or, perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?

Barbossa: You've only got one shot and we can't die.
Jack: Don't do anything stupid...
Will: You can't--I can.
Jack: ...Like that.
Barbossa: Who are you?
Jack: No one. He's no one. A distant cousin of my aunt's nephew twice removed. Lovely singing voice, though. Eunuch.

Will: This is either madness or brilliance.
Jack: It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide.

Elizabeth: So that's it then? That's the secret grand adventure of the infamous Jack Sparrow? You spent three days lying on a beach, drinking rum?!
Jack: Welcome to the Caribbean , love.

Jack: What are you doing? You burned all the food, the shade, the rum!
Elizabeth: Yes, the rum is gone.
Jack: Why is the rum gone?
Elizabeth: One, because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels. Two, that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire Royal Navy is out looking for me, do you really think that there is even the slightest chance that they won't see it?
Jack: But why is the rum gone?

Elizabeth: But you were marooned on this island before, weren't you? So we can escape in the same way you did then.
Jack: To what point and purpose, young missy? The Black Pearl is gone and unless you have a rudder and a lot of sails hidden in that bodice--unlikely--young Mr. Turner will be dead long before you can reach him.
Elizabeth: But you're Captain Jack Sparrow. You vanished from under the eyes of seven agents of the East India Company. You sacked Nassau Port without even firing a shot. Are you the pirate I've read about or not?

Jack: I love this song! Really bad eggs! Woo. When I get the Pearl back, I'm gonna teach it to the whole crew and we'll sing it all the time!
Elizabeth: And you'll be positively the most fearsome pirate in the Spanish Main .
Jack: Not just the Spanish Main, love, the entire ocean, the entire wo'ld. Wherever we want to go, we'll go, that's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails that's what a ship needs but what a ship is...what the Black Pearl really is...is freedom.
Elizabeth: Jack, it must be really terrible for you to be trapped on this island.
Jack: Oh, yes. But the company is infinitely better than last time, I think. And the...the scenery has definitely improved.
Elizabeth: Mr. Sparrow, I'm not entirely sure that I've had enough rum to allow that kind of talk.

Jack: Must've been terrible for you to be trapped here, Jack . Must've been terrible for you... Well it bloody is now! (spots the Dauntless) There'll be no living with her after this.

Jack: I knew you'd warm up to me. Commodore Norrington, my effects, please, and my hat. Commodore! Elizabeth... It is Elizabeth isn't it?
Elizabeth: It's Miss Swann.
Jack: Miss Swann, if you'd be so kind. Come, come, dear, we don't have all day. Now if you'd be very kind... Easy on the goods, darling.
Elizabeth: You're despicable.
Jack: Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you saved mine, we're square.

Jack: Will you be saving her then?
Mullroy: I can't swim!
Jack: Pearl of the King's Navy, you are! (hands the guard his effects) Do not lose these!

Norrington: No additional shots nor powder. A compass that doesn't point north. (unsheathes sword) And I half expected it to be made of wood. You are, without doubt, the worst pirate I've ever heard of.
Jack: But you have heard of me.

Prisoner: Black Pearl? I've heard stories. She's been preying on ships and settlements for near ten years. Never leaves any survivors.
Jack: No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?

Jack: Do you think this wise, boy, crossing blades with a pirate?
Will: You threatened Miss Swann .
Jack: Only a little.

Norrington: One good deed is not enough to redeem a man of a lifetime of wickedness.
Jack: Though it seems enough to condemn him.

Mullroy: You don't have permission to be aboard there, mate.
Jack: I'm sorry, it's just it's such a pretty boat--ship.
Murtogg: What's your name?
Jack: Smith. Or Smithy, if you like.
Mullroy: What's your purpose in Port Royal, Mr. Smith ?
Murtogg: Yeah, and no lies.
Jack: Well, then, I confess, it is my intention to commandeer one of these ships, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out!
Murtogg: I said no lies!
Mullroy: I think he's telling the truth.
Murtogg: If he were telling the truth, he wouldn't have told us.
Jack: Unless, of course, he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you.

Jack: Worry about your own fortunes, gentlemen. The deepest circle of Hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers.

Jack: Oh, so it is that you've found a girl. I see. Well, if you're intending to brave all, hasten to her rescue and so win fair lady's heart you'll have to do it alone, mate. I see no profit in it for me.

Jack: What's your name?
Will: Will Turner.
Jack: That will be short for William, I imagine. Good, strong name. No doubt, named for your father, aye?
Will: Yes.
Jack: Aha. Well, Mr. Turner , I've changed me mind. If you spring me from this cell, I swear on pain of death, I shall take you to the Black Pearl and your bonny lass. Do we have an accord?

Will: How is it that Jack came by that compass?
Gibbs : Not a lot known about Jack Sparrow before he showed up in Tortuga with a mind to go after the treasure of the Isla de Muerta . That was before I met him. Back when he was Captain of the Black Pearl.
Will: What? He failed to mention that.
Gibbs: Well, he plays things close to the vest now. And a hard learned lesson it was. See three days out on the venture the first mate comes to him and says everything's an equal share as should be the location of the treasure, too. So, Jack gives up the bearings. That night there was a mutiny. They marooned Jack on an island and left him to die but not before he'd gone mad with the heat.
Will: Ah. So that's the reason for the... (swaggers).
Gibbs: Reason's got nothing to do with it. Now Will , when a man is marooned he is a given a pistol with a single shot. Well it won't do much good hunting or to be rescued. But after three weeks of starvin' belly and thirst that pistol starts to look real friendly. But Jack made it off the island and he still has that one shot. Oh, but he won't use it though, save for one man. His mutinous first mate.
Will: Barbossa.
Gibbs: Aye.
Will: How did Jack get off the island? Gibbs: Well, I'll tell you. He waded out into the shallows and there he waited three days and three nights till all manner of sea creature came and acclimated to his presence. And on the fourth morning he roped himself a couple of sea turtles, harnessed them together and made a raft.
Will: He roped a couple of sea turtles?
Gibbs: Aye, sea turtles.
Will: What did he use for rope?
Jack: Human hair, from my back.

Norrington: Jack Sparrow, isn't it?
Jack: Captain Jack Sparrow, if you please, sir.
Norrington: Well, I don't see your ship--Captain.
Jack: I'm in the market as it were.

Official: Jack Sparrow , be it known that you have...
Jack : Captain, Captain Jack Sparrow.

Official: ...impersonating an officer of the Spanish Royal Navy, impersonating a cleric of the Church of England...
Jack: (smiling) Oh, yes...

Jack: Well! I'm actually feeling rather good about this. I think we've all arrived at a very special place, eh? Spiritually... Ecumenically... Grammatically? (to Norrington) I want you to know that I was rooting for you, mate. Know that. Elizabeth... it would never have worked between us, darling. I'm sorry. Will... nice hat.

Jack: Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!

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