Popeye (1980) - Quotes

A Burger's Value in Tough Times

J. Wellington Wimpy: Burgers can't be choosers.

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Wimpy's Hamburger Payment Proposal

J. Wellington Wimpy: [singing] I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

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Excitement and Enthusiasm Expressed by George Geezil

George Geezil: HOOP-LA!! HOOP-LA!!

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George Geezil's Frustration with Wimpy

George Geezil: Wimpy, he is flies in my soup, he should be killed to death!

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Disdain for Carrots

George Geezil: POOEY on carrots!!

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Bluto's Frustration Over Olive's Disappearance

Bluto: FOR THE LAST TIME, WHERE'S OLIVE?!

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An Outrageously Mean Self-Assessment

Bluto: [singing] I'm so mean, I had a dream of beatin myself up. Broke my nose, I broke my hand, I wrestled myself to the ground and then, I choked myself to death and broke the choke and woke up. Argh! I'm mean. You know what I mean. If you know what I mean, you'll know what I mean! I'm mean! Meaner than, I sure am mean! Yeah, mean. I'm meaner than that. You know what I mean. I'm so damn mean! I'm mean!

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Bluto's Exclamation of Olive Oyl's Name

Bluto: OOOOOOOOOLLLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

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Bluto's Rant on Taxation

Bluto: Okay, shorty, the Oyls are gonna be double taxed! Triple taxed! Quadruple taxed! Surtaxed! Exercised taxed! OVERtaxed! And, THUMB TAXED!!

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Bluto's Determination About Marriage

Bluto: [picking flower petals] She'll MARRY me!! She won't! She will!!

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Bluto Enforces Curfew With Urgency

Bluto: It's 9:00!! Curfew! LIGHTS OUT!!!

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Urgent Call to Action

Poopdeck Pappy/The Commodore: [repeated line] Haul ass! haul ass!

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An Unexpected Encounter with an Octopus

Poopdeck Pappy/The Commodore: It is an octopussy!

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Disgust for Sentiment in Popeye's World

Poopdeck Pappy/The Commodore: I hates sentiment. I am disgustipated.

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A Father's Frustration with His Son

Poopdeck Pappy/The Commodore: I've never seen like this before in me life, talking to your poor old father like that, you disobedient brat. You're spoiled. That's what you're are, spoiled.

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Disdain for Time and Its Moments

Poopdeck Pappy/The Commodore: Don't talk to me about the future. I hates the future, and I hates the past, and I hates the present. Especially you.

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Frustration with Children and Their Demands

Poopdeck Pappy/The Commodore: [about children] Bless their little hears, if they was made out of gold, I'd like to sell em on the open market. I could make me a fortune. Kids! Eh, they don't what they're doing. Kids, dadblast em! They're gonna lead you to ruin. That's what they're gonna do, lead you to ruin. They cry at you when they're young, they yell at you when they're older, they borrows from you when they's middle-aged and they leave you alone to die. Without even paying you back. Children, phooey. You give them everything they want, and what do you get back in return? You get nothing! Why they're just smaller versions of us you know, but I'm not so crazy about me in the first place, so why would I want one of them. I'm asking ya. Children. Ah, children. Little children. You'll pour your heart to them, you give them everything they want. Give them candy and a lot of toys, and what do you get in return? You get a lot of noise: Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, my poppa's a mean old man! I'm through with children, I'm through with kids. They ain't nothing I'm never gonna do about it.

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Encouragement to Eat Spinach

Poopdeck Pappy/The Commodore: Eat your spinach, you no good infink. Eat it. Eat it! Eat it!

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Acceptance of Responsibility

Popeye: [to Bluto, after beating him up for mistaking SweePea is his and Olive's] Don't thinks I blames ya, cause I don't. Nope.

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Popeye's Farewell to Irene

Popeye: [when Bluto sinks him during a fight] Goodnight, Irene!

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Popeye Questions His Situation in the Film

Popeye: [cartoon version] Hey, what's this? One of Bluto's tricks? I'm in the wrong movie.

Popeye Questions the Morality of His Surroundings

Popeye: [to the Oyls when they enter the gambling den] Oh, what is this? A house of ill repukes? Ooh, who'd bring me infant to this den of immoraliky? Don't touch nothin'. You might get a venerable disease.

Embracing Identity and Self-Acceptance

Popeye: [singing] And I yam what I yam and I yam what I yam that I yam / And I gotta lotta muscle and I only gots one eye / And I never hurts nobody and I'll never tell a lie / Top to me bottom and bottom to me top / That's the way it is til the day that I drop, what am I / I yam what I yam

Self-Reflection of Popeye the Sailor

Popeye: [to the prostitute] Oh, what am I? Some kind of barnicle on the dinghy of life? Oh, I ain't no doctors, but I knows when I'm losing me patiensk. What am I? Some kind of judge or lawyers? Maybe not, but I knows what law suitks me. Careful there, don't ruffle me feathers. What am I? I ain't no physcikisk, but I knows what matters. What am I? I'm Popeye the Sailor.

The Triumph of Good Over Evil

Popeye: Bluto, even though you're larger than me, you can't wins, cause you bad, and the good always wins over the bad.

Popeye's Reflection on Parenthood Roles

Popeye: If I was gonna be Swee'Pea's mother, I should've at least let Olive be his father. Or viska versa. I ain't man enough to be no mother.

Popeye Questions Presence and Absence

Popeye: I know you ain't down there. Truth is you ain't here. Now, where ain't you? Where ain't me Swee'Pea?

Popeye's Request for Apology and Humility

Popeye: Another thing I got is a sensk of humiligration. Now, maybe you swabs can pool your intelligensk and sees that I'm axsking you for an apologeky.

Popeye's Take on Fragrance

Popeye: Eau de toilette, yeh, eau de toilette.

A Son's Hope for Reunion

Popeye: [to a photo of his Pappy] Poppa. Pretty soon, you and me are going to be together again, huh? Yeah. Thirty years ain't that long. Besides, next Wednesday's our annual-versity. Yeah? Yeah. Stay alive. That's all I'm axskin you. Good night, Poppa.