Indian Chief Quotes in Superman (1978)
Indian Chief Quotes:
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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.
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Indian Chief: How.
John, Lost Boy (Bear), Lost Boy (Fox), Lost Boy (Racoon), Michael: How, Chief. How.
Indian Chief: For many moons, red man fight paleface Lost Boys.
John, Lost 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.
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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.
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Shannon Bell: We are from Utah.
Indian Chief: Utah?
[Bell holds out the Mormon Bible]
Indian Chief: Ah, Utah.
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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!
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[after meeting black pioneers]
Indian Chief: [speaks Yiddish, then German, then in English] They darker than us! Woof!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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