Popeye (film) Quotes

Popeye (film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . Popeye completed its run in 1970.

It features Robert Evans (producer) as producer, Harry Nilsson in charge of musical score, and Giuseppe Rotunno as head of cinematography.

Popeye (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Popeye (film) is 114 minutes long. Popeye (film) is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Robin Williams as Popeye, Ray Walston as Poopdeck Pappy, Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl, Paul L. Smith as Bluto, Richard Libertini as Geezil, Paul Dooley as Wimpy, Allan F. Nicholls as Chorus, Donald Moffat as The Tax Man, MacIntyre Dixon as Cole Oyl, Roberta Maxwell as Nana Oyl, Donovan Scott as Castor Oyl, and Allan F. Nicholls as Rough House.

Popeye (film) Quotes

Robin Williams as Popeye

• (Robin Williams) "One thing I remember about me pap was that he always used to throw me up in the air. Yeah, heh heh -- but he'd never be there when I come down, you know. Heh heh heh. Boy, he had a sensek'a humor, didn't he? Yeah, that was me pap. I remember the time he gave me a electric eel as a toy. Hah hah hah; eep. Hah, yeah, that was fun. Or, or he'd rock me cradle real, real, real hard and I'd lose me formula. And then he'd say "One day, you'll be a sailor." Heh heh heh, that's -- that's what I yam today, yeah. Hm. Yeah. Sometimes he'd bounce me on his knee. Heh heh, most o' the time he'd miss, though, 'cos he couldn't see too well with one eye -- heh heh heh, oh, me pap, yeah --"

• (Robin Williams) "What are you doing, Pappy? You can't fire that thing. There's women and infinks on that boat."
• (Ray Walston) "Would you stop worrying? All I'm gonna do is fire a warning shot right across the bow. Don't you thinks I knows what I'm doing?"

• (Robin Williams) "Careful there. What blew him into town?"

• (Robin Williams) "Are you all right there? This ain't bad, is it? It ain't the Ritz; but, at least you get a little womb service here. It ain't no polashcle mansion either, but, we got somethin'. The best I ever saw."

• (Robin Williams) "Oh, what am I? Some kind of barnicle on the dinghy of life? Oh, I ain't no doctors, but I knows that I'm losing me patience. What am I? Some kind of judge or lawyers? Maybe not, but I knows what law suitks me."
• (Robin Williams) "Careful there, don't ruffle me feathers."
• (Robin Williams) "What am I? I ain't no physcikisk, but I knows what matters. What am I? I'm Popeye the Sailor."

• (Robin Williams) "I oughta busk you right in the mush."

• (Robin Williams) "They've got me Olive Oyl and Swee'Pea."
• (Ray Walston) "Olive Oyl? Swee'Pea? What are you doing, making a salad?"

• (Robin Williams) "What are you doing, there? No childs 'o mine will be exploiticated for ill-gotten gains."
• (Robin Williams) "Yeah, that's true. You're gonna be president one day --"
• (Shelley Duvall) "It is not ill-gotten, it's GOOD-gotten gains. These races will clothe us, and feed us, and save us."
• (Robin Williams) "Wrong is wrong, even when it helps ya."
• (Paul Dooley) "The horses are at the gates."
• (Shelley Duvall) "I think family is more important than dumb morality, hmm?"

• (Robin Williams) "If I was gonna be Sweet Pea's mutter, I should've at least let Olive be his father. Or viska versa. I ain't man enough to his mutter."

• (Robin Williams) "Bluto. Even though you're bigger than me, you can't win, 'cause you're bad, and the good always wins over the bad."

• (Robin Williams) "I know you ain't down there. Now where ain't me Swee'Pea?"

• (Robin Williams) "Friendly here. A little scary too. I think I'll spend a year."

• (Robin Williams) "I hates sentiment. I is disgustipated."

• (Robin Williams) "So, you're just a landlubber, ain't you?"
• (Shelley Duvall) "Oh yeah? Well, I am a woman."
• (Robin Williams) "Oh yeah? Well, I am a mutter."

• (Robin Williams) "Oh, what is this? A house of ill repukes? Ooh, who'd bring me infant to this den of immoraliky?"
• (Robin Williams) "Don't touch nothin', you might get a venerable disease."

• (Robin Williams) "Bunch of carrots?"
• (Richard Libertini) "Nah."
• (Robin Williams) "Ain't got no carrots?"
• (Robin Williams) "What are those? Prunes?"
• (Richard Libertini) "Phooey on carrots."
• (Richard Libertini) "Take broccoli."
• (Robin Williams) "I'm in the mood for carrots. I need me vitamins."
• (Richard Libertini) "Phooey on carrots. Take spinach."
• (Robin Williams) "If I wanted spinach, I'd ask for spinach."
• (Richard Libertini) "Well, why didn't you say so?"
• (Richard Libertini) "For you, each a dollar."
• (Robin Williams) "How much is the broccoli?"
• (Richard Libertini) "Nickel, maybe dime."
• (Robin Williams) "And the spinach?"
• (Richard Libertini) "Dime, maybe quarter."
• (Robin Williams) "Then how come carrots is a dollar?"
• (Richard Libertini) "Dollar fifty. You buy what I don't feel like selling will cost you two dollars."
• (Richard Libertini) "Ah ah ah. Deadbeat, nope. This is a nickel."
• (Robin Williams) "I'm payin' what me feels like payin'."

• (Robin Williams) "It's me own fault, Sweet Pea's been kidnapped. Olive's was right. Even an orphan needs a mutter and a father."

• (Robin Williams) "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."

• (Robin Williams) "Goodnight, Irene."

• (Robin Williams) "We should at least have dinner first."

• (Robin Williams) "This is the most fun I've ever had and still been conscience."

• (Robin Williams) "I ain't man enough to be his mutter."

• (Robin Williams) "Look at there Olives, he's got my eye."
• (Shelley Duvall) "He does not have your eyes. He's got my eyes. He's got your mouth."
• (Robin Williams) "Does he? One day, Sweet Peas, he's gonna go to school and bust bigger kids in the mush. Yeah, you like that, don't you? Yes."
• (Shelley Duvall) "And we'll move into a vine covered cottage on a shady lane. And we'll garden together. And we'll play house."

• (Robin Williams) "Ha. Ha. Ha. That's rich. Oh, you're gone now. You're really a dizzy dame."

• (Robin Williams) "That's a neat trick. Ha. Ha. Me infix is a psychic, a prophix. If I'd seen it with me own eye, I wouldn't believe it."

• (Robin Williams) "I y'am what I y'am. Wherever I go. I came from the sea."

• (Robin Williams) "I yam what I yam, and I yam what I yam that I yam / And I got a lotta muscle, and I only gots one eye / And I'll never hurt nobodys, and I'll never tell a lie / Top to me bottom, and me bottom to me top / That's the way it is, 'til the day that I drop / What am I? I yam what I yam."

• (Robin Williams) "Don't thinks I blames ya. 'Cause I don't. Nope."

• (Robin Williams) "I'm your one and only exspring. See, we got the same bulgy arms."
• (Ray Walston) "No resemblance."
• (Robin Williams) "We-we got the same squinky eye."
• (Ray Walston) "What squinky eye?"
• (Robin Williams) "That's going to be hard for you to see. Oh, we even got the same pipe, Pap."
• (Ray Walston) "You idiot, you can't inherit a pipe. Ooh, I am poppa to no male, nor no female child. That no court could prove otherwise."

• (Robin Williams) "I'm a very tolerant man, except, when it comes to holding a grudge."

• (Robin Williams) "Blow me down. When you roll into town."

Allan F. Nicholls as Rough House

• (Allan F. Nicholls) "He's Popeye the Sailor Man, he's Popeye the Sailor Man / He's strong to the finich, cause he eats his spinach / He's Popeye the Sailor Man."
• (Robin Williams) "I'm one tough gazookus, which hates all palookas / But takes on the up and square / I biffs 'em and boffs 'em, and always out-ruffs 'em / But none of them gets nowhere."
• (Allan F. Nicholls) "If anyone dares to risks his fists / it's buff, and it's wham, understand?"
• (Robin Williams) "So keep good behavior, that's your one lifesaver / with Popeye the Sailor Man."

Paul L. Smith as Bluto

• (Paul L. Smith) "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. Aaaarrrrrrgh. 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."

• (Paul L. Smith) "Okay, Shorty, the Oyls are gonna be double taxed. Triple taxed. Quadruple taxed. Surtaxed. Exercise taxed. Overtaxed. AND THUMB TAXED."

• (Paul L. Smith) "For the last time, WHERE'S OLIVE?"

• (Paul L. Smith) "Commodore."
• (Ray Walston) "Don't keep calling me commodore inside this here harbor. I got millions'o emenies. And you is 10 or 12 of 'em."

• (Paul L. Smith) "So you don't like spinach?"
• (Robin Williams) "I hates it."

Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl

• (Shelley Duvall) "You scared the wits out of me."
• (Robin Williams) "Almost knocked'em outta you too."

• (Shelley Duvall) "I'm sorry mother but it's ugly. I ask you again, have you ever seen anything so ugly? I won't be engaged in this hat."

• (Shelley Duvall) "Your father is a rat, a crook, and a kidnapper. And he's on the Commodore's right now with Bluto and Swee'Pea. That's what I can't tell you."
• (Robin Williams) "No, he ain't, and my father ain't no kidnapper."
• (Shelley Duvall) "He is too. He's a rat, a crook, a kidnapper, and a bad father and more."
• (Robin Williams) "More?"
• (Shelley Duvall) "Yeah."
• (Paul Dooley) "Well, it appears that your father is the Commodore."
• (Robin Williams) "He ain't no Commodore. A hoity-toity Commodore. He would never be that."
• (Shelley Duvall) "A rat, a crook, a kidnapper, and a Commodore."
• (Robin Williams) "I don't listen to the advice of some dizzy gaming broad. Now, they ain't there, and I'm gonna prove it to you."
• (Robin Williams) "Where ain't they?"
• (Paul Dooley) "They ain't on the Commodore's boat."
• (Robin Williams) "That's where they ain't? Well if that's where they ain't, I'll prove to you that that's where they ain't."

• (Shelley Duvall) "I think it's a conspiracy. Why would they manufacture deliberate ugliness unless they wanted me to look ugly? We find that out, we find out everything."

• (Shelley Duvall) "He can't take me out of anything. I'm not a child."
• (Donovan Scott) "I'll say you're not a child."
• (Shelley Duvall) "Who says I'm not a child?"
• (Donovan Scott) "You said you're not a child and I agreed with you. That's who."
• (Shelley Duvall) "Who asked you to agree with me?"
• (Donovan Scott) "Well, no one can stop me from agreeing with you if I want to."
• (Shelley Duvall) "I can."

• (Shelley Duvall) "What kind of name is that anyway? Popeye? Pretty strange."
• (Robin Williams) "What kind name is Olive Oil? Its sounds like some kind of lubricants."

Ray Walston as Poopdeck Pappy

• (Ray Walston) "Stand to, you swab. You're casking shadows on Poopdeck Pappy. Pride of the Pacifiric. And father to the shark. Brother to the piranhaca. Cousin to the killer whale. And uncle to the octup*****."

• (Ray Walston) "Cut me down. Cut me down."
• (Robin Williams) "Cut ya down, cut ya down."
• (Ray Walston) "Cut me down."
• (Ray Walston) "Ugh, you idiot."
• (Robin Williams) "You said cut you down."
• (Ray Walston) "I didn't say cut me down. I said get me down, get me down. And don't you ever pick up another knife, if you do, I'll make you eat it. You'll be known as the Sword Swallowin' Sailor."

• (Ray Walston) "Don't dare'st say I ain't fair. True I hates -- but I come by me hatin' fair -- and square. Hatin's me code. I will live and die by hate. Hate's done me more good than anything in the world."

• (Ray Walston) "His mother ups and dies, and he wouldn't eat his spinach."
• (Robin Williams) "She choked on it, pop."
• (Ray Walston) "His poppa out of work, and he wouldn't eat his spinach."
• (Robin Williams) "It wasn't my fault."
• (Ray Walston) "The whole country in a depressigan. Oooooohhhh, and he wouldn't eat is spinach."
• (Robin Williams) "That was Coolidge, Poppa."
• (Ray Walston) "His poppa going hungry. Going off to steal. Stealing what?"
• (Robin Williams) "Spinach."
• (Ray Walston) "So his ungrate son could grow up big and strong."
• (Ray Walston) "You know what I done? You know what I done when the G Man catched me and thrung me in jail?"
• (Robin Williams) "No."
• (Ray Walston) "Hmm? I laughed."
• (Robin Williams) "Yeah. You laughed?"
• (Ray Walston) "I laughed a whole year. Ha ha ha."

• (Ray Walston) "I never seen anything like this before in me life, talking to your poor old father like that, you disobedient brat. You're spoiled. That's what you are, spoiled."

• (Ray Walston) "Haul ass. Haul ass. I gotta get that treasure. Now, where is it? Where is it?"

• (Ray Walston) "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."

• (Ray Walston) "Stand to, you scuab. You're castin' shadows on Poopdeck Pappy. Pride of the Pacifiary. Father to the shark. Brodder to the parinica. Cousin to the killa whale. And uncle to the octop*****."

• (Ray Walston) "Eat that spinach."
• (Robin Williams) "I don't wanna eat that spinach."
• (Ray Walston) "Eat that spinach, you brat."
• (Robin Williams) "I don't wanna eat that spinach."
• (Ray Walston) "Uuuuuggggghhh."
• (Robin Williams) "I don't wanna eat that spinach. I don't wanna. Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhh."
• (Ray Walston) "You eat that spinach."
• (Robin Williams) "Waaaaaaaahhhhhhhh."
• (Ray Walston) "You disobedient brat."
• (Robin Williams) "Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh."
• (Ray Walston) "You was disobedient when you was two, and you're still disobedient now."

• (Ray Walston) "You wouldn't eat your spinach. Spinach what kept our family strong for thousands of years. And what does me only oxspring do with it?"
• (Ray Walston) "He spits it up."

• (Ray Walston) "It is an octop*****."

• (Ray Walston) "Eat your spinach, you no good infink. Eat it. EAT IT. EAT IT."

• (Ray Walston) "Get that fat guy up here."

• (Ray Walston) "Don't talks to me about the future. I hates the future, and I hates the past, and I hates the present. Especially you."

Donald Moffat as The Tax Man

• (Donald Moffat) "You moved out of the Oyl?"
• (Robin Williams) "None of your business."
• (Donald Moffat) "Four dollars twenty-five cents, movin' out tax."
• (Robin Williams) "Nuts to you and nuts to your taxes."
• (Donald Moffat) "You moved in here?"
• (Robin Williams) "What's it look like?"
• (Donald Moffat) "Five dollars twenty-five cents, movin' in tax."
• (Robin Williams) "Don't forget: double nuts."

• (Donald Moffat) "One sunflower, embarrassing the Tax Man tax."

• (Donald Moffat) "You just docked?"
• (Robin Williams) "I has."
• (Donald Moffat) "Ah ha, let's see here, that'll be 25¢ docking tax."
• (Robin Williams) "What for?"
• (Donald Moffat) "Where's your sea craft?"
• (Robin Williams) "It ain't no sea craft, it's me dinghy and it's under the wharf."
• (Donald Moffat) "Ah ha. ahh-ha. This your goods?"
• (Robin Williams) "They is."
• (Donald Moffat) "Yeah. You're new in town right?"
• (Robin Williams) "If you call this a town, yes."
• (Donald Moffat) "Well, first of all, there's 17¢ new-in-town tax, and there's 45¢ rowboat-under-the-wharf tax, and one dollar leaving-your-junk-lying-around-the-wharf tax, so all together, you owe the Commodore $1.87."
• (Robin Williams) "Uh, who's this Commodore?"
• (Donald Moffat) "Is that the nature of question? There's a nickel question tax."

• (Donald Moffat) "Not up to no good, are you? Because if you are, there's a 50 cent "up to no good" tax."

Richard Libertini as Geezil

• (Richard Libertini) "What is that glop you're eating?"
• (Paul Dooley) "It's a soup burger. These are difficult times. Burgers can't be choosers."

• (Richard Libertini) "Fooey. The Commadore. Besides Wimpy, I hate him best."

MacIntyre Dixon as Cole Oyl

• (MacIntyre Dixon) "You owe me an apology."

Donovan Scott as Castor Oyl

• (Donovan Scott) "If Mom caught me in here, she'd kill me. There's Mom."

Roberta Maxwell as Nana Oyl

• (Roberta Maxwell) "Oh, my stars. A garden. My mind was a million miles away. Come in before you catch your death of mud."

• (Roberta Maxwell) "Oh, Mr. Eye, have you met --"
• (Robin Williams) "Popeye."
• (Roberta Maxwell) "Um, Pop. Mr. Wimpy, my son Castor, Mr. Geezil, my husband Cole. We're all one big happy family here. Although, not really. I mean, um, well, Mr., Mr. Geezil and Mr. Wimpy are --"
• (MacIntyre Dixon) "Me, I'm family."
• (Roberta Maxwell) "Well, you're my husband."
• (MacIntyre Dixon) "You owe me an apology."

• (Roberta Maxwell) "Olive, will you show Mister -- Mister --"
• (Robin Williams) "Oh. Popeye, ma'am."
• (Roberta Maxwell) "Mr. Eye the spare room?"

Paul Dooley as Wimpy

• (Paul Dooley) "Rough House? One genuine hamburger for the gentleman. I'm buying."
• (Allan F. Nicholls) "Who's paying?"
• (Paul Dooley) "I'm buying. He's paying."

• (Paul Dooley) "I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."

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