The Pirate Movie (1982)
Kristy McNichol: Mabel Stanley
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Quotes
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The Pirate King : What's the age of consent around here?
Mabel : Eighteen.
The Pirate King : Good! I'm old enough.
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Mabel : Death before dishonor! Besides, you ever try running in one of these things? It's a real bitch!
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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!
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Mabel : You'll be hung!
The Pirate King : Oh I am, I am, and very well thank you.
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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.
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Mabel : [to Pirate King] Is that a dagger in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
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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.
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[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!
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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'
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Major-General : Damn cheek! With women leading our armies we'll never have a good war again.
Mabel : So true! So true.
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Mabel : I'll see you get a thousand lashes!
The Pirate King : Promises, promises.
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Mabel : The body's an eight, the brain's a ten, so let's go.
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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?