The Pirate Movie (1982)

Kristy McNichol: Mabel Stanley

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Quotes 

• The Pirate King : What's the age of consent around here?

  Mabel : Eighteen.

  The Pirate King : Good! I'm old enough.

• Mabel : Death before dishonor! Besides, you ever try running in one of these things? It's a real bitch!

• Mabel : Frederic, these are the 1880s. You can't live your life by the outmoded conventions of a neo-imperialist society. Find your true center!

  Frederic : What? You mean Zen piracy?

  Mabel : [unlaces her shirt and pulls it down to show her corset]  Frederic, have you ever worn a whalebone corset? Well no, we established that, didn't we? It chokes and strangles, Frederic! I won't be choked and strangled by someone else's dumb ideas of custom and duty!

  [to stone statue] 

  Mabel : Would you Harry, would you?

  [to Frederic] 

  Mabel : Never to know the rich and real, wondrous person beating and throbbing inside me. Frederic, can you see me throbbing?

  Frederic : I see! I see! I'm throbbing too!

• Frederic : [moments after meeting for the first time]  Look, I know this is going to sound silly, but I think I love you. I think I might even want to marry you.

  Mabel : God, that was a short love scene!

• Mabel : You'll be hung!

  The Pirate King : Oh I am, I am, and very well thank you.

• Frederic : Oh I love you. I'll always love you, come what may.

  Mabel : "Come what may"? We'll all be murdered in our beds come what may.

  Frederic : Well run. For God's sake run!

  Mabel : Death before dishonor. Besides, have you tried running in one of these things? It's a real bitch.

• Mabel : Frederic, you're not gay, are you?

  Frederic : [high voice]  No!

  [clears throat and in a lower voice] 

  Frederic : No.

  Mabel : The way you and the Pirate King get around in those rather feminine, pleated shirts and all that leather.

  Frederic : Mabel!

  Mabel : Hey! I'm not prejudiced. I mean, what does this country got a navy for? Screw 'em if they can't take a joke!

  Frederic : You're weird.

  Mabel : All kidding aside, tell me this. Are you a virgin?

  Frederic : I don't know.

  Mabel : Near enough.

• Mabel : [to Pirate King]  Is that a dagger in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

• Mabel : You poor thing. Pirates! You mean like walking the plank? Buried treasure? Hack, slash, off with his head, and the Jolly Richard, and everything?

  Frederic : Roger.

  Mabel : Oh, Roger I love it.

  Frederic : No, Frederic without a "k."

  Mabel : Mabel, also without a "k." God, we have so much in common.

• [Mabel comes in and finds Frederic laying in a coffin] 

  Mabel : Frederic, what are you doing?

  Frederic : Oh, hiding.

  Mabel : My Frederic, hiding? It cannot be the lion-heart troubles at the coming conflict. My love - a wimp!

  Frederic : No, Mabel. A terrible disclosure's just been made.

  Mabel : Then zip it up!

• Mabel : [song]  If you're treadin' water and romance is on the slide/Don't you know you have to swallow somethin' more than water... it's your pride/Ah ha, a-huff and puff/Just to keep love goin'/A-ha, I've had enough/Of pumpin' and a-blowin'

  Soundtrack Chorus : [song]  Keep pumpin', blowin'/Keep pumpin', blowin'

• Major-General : Damn cheek! With women leading our armies we'll never have a good war again.

  Mabel : So true! So true.

• Frederic : Now, less than a hundred years ago, pirates used to really operate around here... raping and pillaging!

  Mabel : God, I'd hate to be pillaged.

• Mabel : I'll see you get a thousand lashes!

  The Pirate King : Promises, promises.

• Mabel : Do you live around here?

  Frederic : I've never lived until now.

• Mabel : The body's an eight, the brain's a ten, so let's go.

• Sergeant : [with heavy French accent]  Name of the fugitive?

  Mabel : [struggling to understand]  Fyoog tiv?

  Sergeant : [frustrated]  Fugitive! F - U...

  Mabel : Up yours, too, Froggy!... Oh! *Fugitive!* His name's Fredric - without a 'k.' And he's got a horse - I mean a nurse, her name's Ruth and... listen, why don't you just follow me to the castle?