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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.

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.

The only thing that can ever make a Louisiana boy feel better is Popeye's.

I don't think I consciously say, 'What would Olivia Pope do?' but there's a new thread of belief in my own capacity that I think comes from her. She makes it happen. She figures it out. She fixes it.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.