Indian Chief Quotes in Superman (1978)

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Indian Chief Quotes:

  • Lois Lane: As you know, my newspaper, the Daily Planet, is very interested in that dam, Chief, but what I don't understand is why you would sell out to a faceless person that you've never met. I mean, you don't even know his name.

    [the Chief taps on Lois' dashboard as she goes off the road]

    Lois Lane: Oh, yeah!

    Indian Chief: At the stupid high price that he offered for this worthless piece of desert, I hope it's Custer!

    Lois Lane: Perfect! That's just what I need. Thank you.

  • Indian Chief: How.

    JohnLost Boy (Bear)Lost Boy (Fox)Lost Boy (Racoon)Michael: How, Chief. How.

    Indian Chief: For many moons, red man fight paleface Lost Boys.

    JohnLost Boy (Bear)Lost Boy (Fox)Lost Boy (Racoon)Michael: Ugh.

    Indian Chief: Sometime, you win; sometime, we win.

    Lost Boy (Bear): Okay, Chief. You win this time. Now turn us loose.

    John: Turn us loose? You mean this is only a game?

    Lost Boy (Fox): Sure. When we win, we turn them loose.

    Lost Boy (Racoon): When they win, they turn us loose.

    Indian Chief: This time, no turnum loose.

    Lost Boy (Fox): Huh?

    [laughs]

    Lost Boy (Fox): The chief's a great spoofer!

    Indian Chief: Me no spoofum! Where you hide Princess Tiger Lily?

    Lost Boy (Bear): Uh, Tiger Lily?

    Lost Boy (Fox): We ain't got your ol' princess!

    John: I certainly have never seen her.

    Lost Boy (Racoon): Me neither.

    Indian Chief: Heap big lie! If Tiger Lily not back by sunset... burnum at stake.

  • Indian Chief: Ya ya ya! Yoku kita na! Kimi ga kono eiga no shujinkoo nan daroo?

    [Hi hi hi! Welcome! I guess you are the heroes of this movie?]

    James Humphrey: He says...

    Indian Chief: Who are you assholes?

    James Humphrey: Oh, he speaks English.

  • Shannon Bell: We are from Utah.

    Indian Chief: Utah?

    [Bell holds out the Mormon Bible]

    Indian Chief: Ah, Utah.

  • Shannon Bell: Can you tell us what tribe this is?

    Indian Chief: We are Indians.

    Shannon Bell: Yes... I can see that, but can you tell us...

    Indian Chief: You don't believe we are Indians?

    Shannon Bell: No, all...

    Indian Chief: We have teepees!

    [Motions with arms at teepees]

    Shannon Bell: Yes, I see, but...

    Indian Chief: Look at all these teepees we have... Because, we are...

    [looks at companion and folds arms]

    Indian Chief: Indians!

  • [after meeting black pioneers]

    Indian Chief: [speaks Yiddish, then German, then in English] They darker than us! Woof!

  • S. Quentin Quale: Panello, this Indian is no Indian!

    Joseph Panello: If he's no Indian, why is he wearin' a chicken for a hat?

    S. Quentin Quale: Oh, stop it! Trying to pass yourself off as a red man. Why, you can't even speak the language. Let me hear you recite Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

    Indian Chief: Ugh.

    Joseph Panello: That's not it.

    S. Quentin Quale: If it is, they've shortened it since I went to school. And you call yourself a red man.

  • Indian Chief: How.

    Peter Minuit: Three minutes, and leave 'em in the shell.

    Indian Chief: What?

    Peter Minuit: No, not what, how!

    Indian Chief: Ugh.

  • Indian Chief: Medicine man say me sick. If me no sick, me no sell island. Me sick, so me go west.

    Peter Minuit: You're crazy to go west, the whole west is full of Indians. You're liable to get killed.

  • Peter Minuit: I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll raise my offer to 22 dollars.

    Indian Chief: 26 dollars. Not cent less, for island of Manhattan.

  • Peter Minuit: Why don't we have a drink and forget the whole deal.

    Indian Chief: My medicine man tell me no drink, no smoke.

    Peter Minuit: No drink and no smoke?

    Indian Chief: No.

    Peter Minuit: What about girls?

    Indian Chief: No girls.

    Peter Minuit: What about her?

    Indian Chief: She my daughter, she no girl.

    Peter Minuit: That's what he thinks.

  • Peter Minuit: Now, just let me get this straight. You're not allowed to drink?

    Indian Chief: No.

    Peter Minuit: No smoke and no girls?

    Indian Chief: No.

    Peter Minuit: Well, what do you want the 26 dollars for? You better get another doctor and have a little bit of fun out of life.

  • Peter Minuit: Now, this is my final offer, 24 dollars and not a penny more.

    Indian Chief: Robbery! White man rob poor injun.

    Peter Minuit: So, you think you're being robbed, eh? Be glad its not 300 years later. You might have been wiped out in the stock market. Now, is it a deal or isn't it?

    Indian Chief: Robbery!

    Peter Minuit: That's quite true, but, eh, is it a deal or isn't it?

    Indian Chief: Deal.

  • Peter Minuit: Now, wait a minute, I got to have these tags for my income tax returns. These tags are very valuable.

    Indian Chief: Tags valuable?

    Peter Minuit: I'll say.

    Indian Chief: Me take tags. You take jewels. Chief no fool.

    Peter Minuit: No wonder you're the Chief. With a brain like yours, the white man hasn't got a chance.

  • Hercules Glub: You speak-um English?

    Indian Chief: Not terribly fluently. I was at Oxford for four years, and while I'm fairly conversant with the classics, my ear has not yet become attuned to your Americanisms.

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