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When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.
The only thing that can ever make a Louisiana boy feel better is Popeye's.
I was Popeye mad when I was a kid, and I'd eat spinach until the cows came home.
I liked the old comic books, especially the funny ones like 'Popeye' and 'Beetle Bailey.'
E.C. Segar, who created 'Thimble Theatre' and 'Popeye,' is one of my favorite cartoonists.
I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.
It's become normal for me to walk on set as Popeye, Frankenstein or an Elf or even a chicken.
I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
A lot of early Misfits song titles are inspired by old B-movies, which were my Popeye's spinach when I was a kid.
There was a manga boom, so I read 'Astro Boy,' 'Osomatsu-kun,' and such. But what influenced me the most were things like 'Popeye' and Disney animation.
Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie.
I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can't take the top off and swallow it down.' You know, confidence has to be earned.
I was offered 'Popeye,' which Robert Altman made. They offered me $2 million to direct that, which was good money. I wasn't interested in it. I don't like that kind of movie.
I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.
I would think that to people like my father, and the people of his generation, Popeye is like a male priapist. So if you think in ancient terms, he would have a harem, a symbol of male energy.
I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.
If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, and Popeye is unavailable because of contractual disputes, it's hard to do better than Johnny Depp.
You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally.
