The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Captain Haddock: I thought you were an optimist.
Tintin: You were wrong, weren't you? I'm a realist.
Captain Haddock: Ah, it's just another name for a quitter.
Tintin: You can call me what you like. Don't you get it? We failed.
Captain Haddock: Failed. There are plenty of others willing

to call you a failure. A fool. A loser. A hopeless souse. Don't you ever say it of yourself. You send out the wrong signal, that is what people pick up. Don't you understand? You care about something, you fight for it. You hit a wall, you push through it. There's something you need to know about failure, Tintin. You can never let it defeat you.

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Captain Haddock: My memory isn't the way it used to be.
Tintin: How was it?
Captain Haddock: I've forgotten.

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Tintin: We've got bad news. We've only got one bullet.
Captain Haddock: What's the good news?
Tintin: We've got ONE bullet.

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Captain Haddock: What is this peculiar beverage? It had no bouquet, it's completely transparent.
Tintin: It's water.

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Tintin: What have you done?
Captain Haddock: I lit a wee fire...
Tintin: *In a boat?*
[explosion]
Tintin: Well, this is a fine mess.

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Captain Haddock: Nobody takes my ship!
Tintin: They've already taken it.
Captain Haddock: But nobody takes my ship twice!

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Nestor: Good evening, sir. I trust you had a pleasant voyage.
Ivanovich Sakharine: Do I pay you to talk?
Nestor: You don't pay me at all.

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Captain Haddock: So you thought you'd sneak in an' catch me with me trousers down, eh?
Tintin: I'd rather you keep your trousers on if it's all the same to you!

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Thomson: [looks at the newspaper] Great Scotland Yard! That's extraordinary!
Tintin: What is?
Thomson: Worthington's having a half-price sale on bowler hats!
Inspector Thompson: [snatches the newspaper] Really, Thomson! This is hardly the time...
[looks at the newspaper]
Inspector

Thompson: Great Scotland Yard!
ThomsonTintin: What is it?
Inspector Thompson: Canes are half-price too!

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

[from trailer]
[in a plane]
Captain Haddock: You do know what you're doing, right?
Tintin: Relax. I interviewed a pilot once!

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Tintin: How's your thirst for adventure, Captain?
Captain Haddock: Unquenchable, Tintin.

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Captain Haddock: Blistering treasure! It's Red Rackham's barnacles!

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Silk: I'm not a bad person. I'm a kleptomaniac.
Thomson: A what?
Inspector Thompson: It's fear of open spaces.
Thomson: Poor man. No wonder he keeps his wallets in the living room.

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Tintin: Captain, can you get us to Bagghar?
Captain Haddock: What sort of a stupid question is that?
[gets up]
Captain Haddock: Give me those oars! I'll show you some real seamanship, laddie! I'll not be doubted by some pipsqueak tuft of ginger and his irritating dog. I am master and commander of the seas!

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Tintin: To think, all it took was one day in the Sahara! Congratulations, Captain, you're sober!

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Captain Haddock: [Haddock is chasing Sakharine's Bird] 10,000 Thundering Typhoons! Come here you pilfering parakeet!

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

[from trailer]
Tintin: Are you going to take charge of this evidence?
Inspector Thompson: Never fear, Tintin! The evidence is safe with us!
[falls down stairs]
Thomson: Thompson? Where are you?
Inspector Thompson: Well, I'm already downstairs! You'd better keep up!

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Captain Haddock: [seeing Snowy for the first time] A giant rat of Sumatra!

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

[from trailer]
[a shipwrecked Haddock spots a plane]
Captain Haddock: We're saved! A savior from above!
[the plane opens fire]

The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

Ivanovich Sakharine: You may kill the boy, but NOT Haddock!
Allan: Oh, come on, sir, he's a rum soak! We should have killed him long ago...
Ivanovich Sakharine: [draws his blade] Do you think it was an accident I took Haddock's ship, Haddock's crew, Haddock's treacherous first mate? Nothing I do is an accident!