Quotes from Freddie Bartholomew movies and TV shows

Harvey: Oh, oh, I'm sorry.
Manuel Fidello: What you sorry about?
Harvey: Well, I mean, your father, they didn't find him.
Manuel Fidello: What they need find him for? He all right.
Harvey: Well, but, drowning out in the ocean, all alone at night.
Manuel Fidello: What's the trouble about that? That fine way. The savior, he take my father up to fishermen's heaven - with all his old friends.

Harvey: But, there's no fishing out there, is there?
Frank Burton Cheyne: The best trout fishing in the world! And if I do say it myself, I can teach you to cast a fly wherever you want to put one.
Dan Troop: I read about that kind of fishing, once, in a magazine. Manuel said that any fish that ate a bug was some kind of a frog.

Manuel Fidello: I gonna get nifty suit. You know, purple colored. Oh, very nifty suit, with shoes to match and big pearl buttons. Oh, and then I get new tie with big yellow flowers. Oh, then I walk up and down Duckett Street, and I say "Hey, girls, girls. Hey, look, look. Manuel is in town."
Harvey: Girls?
Manuel Fidello: Oh sure, beautiful girls. I get maybe five, six girls in Gloucester. I tell each one I like her best. You gotta tell big lies to girls to make them happy.

Harvey: Gosh, can I take him off the hook?
Manuel Fidello: We got not time for that. We don't know these fish personal.

Harvey: Do you think they really fish in heaven?
Manuel Fidello: Well, sure they fish in heaven. What else they do?

Manuel Fidello: My father, when he alive, he made better songs than me.
Harvey: What kind of songs did he sing?
Manuel Fidello: Songs about the sun and the sea. Songs about the clouds. Big songs - about the wind and the storms. And little songs too - about the tip on my mother's nose. Oh, my father, he feel beautiful inside.

Harvey: The food was awful. But, it was better than nothing, I guess.

Manuel Fidello: What's the matter, little fish? You sleepy?
Harvey: I-I'm so ashamed, Manuel.
Manuel Fidello: Sure. We all got to be ashamed once. So we don't do things again when we got be ashamed of, see?

Captain Disko Troop: Inquiring if Harvey is earning his keep: Manuel?
Manuel Fidello: It's OK, he do some work.
Harvey: I did not. - That was work.
Manuel Fidello: You clean something off deck, no?
Harvey: You made me do something.
Manuel Fidello: That was work.

Manuel Fidello: Hey, sleepyface! Look! You log on the bunk.
Harvey: Oh, say, I didn't.
Manuel Fidello: Easy now, easy, he's a big one. And stay off your backside, you hear me. Come on, pull 'em up.
Harvey: I'm try-trying to.
Manuel Fidello: Oh, you want Manuel's help, huh? I think you get blisters. Blisters good for fisherman. Come on, pull 'em up! Pull 'em up.

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