# Challenge us with a non-famous line from a movie

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [April 2, 2022, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142 "2022-04-02T06:07:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2124 "2023-02-04T15:44:53Z")

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Correct

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2125 "2023-02-12T05:11:13Z")

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“The royal penis is clean, Your Highness.”

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**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2126 "2023-02-12T05:28:55Z")

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Arthur?

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2127 "2023-02-12T05:29:32Z")

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Nope, not _ **Arthur** _.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2128 "2023-02-12T05:46:53Z")

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Miracle Mile.

What a great flick.

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2129 "2023-02-12T06:28:51Z")

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Larry\_Borgia_nods_ Yep.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2130 "2023-02-12T06:38:32Z")

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I don’t want to spoil that movie, even if it’s from the eighties. What a gut punch.

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**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2131 "2023-02-12T07:08:32Z")

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Coming to America

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**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2132 "2023-02-12T13:04:03Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> The Keeper in the 1931 Tod Browning version of **Dracula** (speaking to one of the matrons at Dr. Seward’s sanitarium)

Right again.

“This is the nature of war: By protecting others, you save yourselves. If you only think of yourself, you’ll only destroy yourself.”

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2133 "2023-02-12T14:59:55Z")

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Correct! I saw it last night in a real cinema with one big screen.

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2134 "2023-02-12T17:14:43Z")

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> [@Larry\_Borgia](#):
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> don’t want to spoil that movie, even if it’s from the eighties. What a gut punch.

I’ve sprung it on people who had no idea. Credits roll. Dead silence for 10 minutes. “…whoa…”

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2135 "2023-02-12T17:35:26Z")

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> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#):
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> I love the rain - it washes memories off the sidewalk of life.

Since no one has gotten this in almost a year, it’s from the 1972 film Play It Again, Sam.

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2136 "2023-02-12T17:41:26Z")

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> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#):
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> A movie-within-a-movie line:
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> Everybody’s left a dog in a hot car at some point.

This is from the movie-within-a-movie The Dog Walker in the 2015 movie Trainwreck,

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**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2137 "2023-02-12T18:39:11Z")

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That and The Rapture are two movies where 30 minutes from the end you’re going “This isn’t really happening is it??”

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2138 "2023-02-21T03:25:19Z")

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> [@outlierrn](#):
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> ‘‘Nobody ever wins a fight.’’
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> This one is dear to my heart for having been able to use it, unironically, IRL.

**Road House.**

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**Author:** ![up2eleven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/up2eleven/32/13432_2.png) [@up2eleven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up2eleven)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2139 "2023-02-21T22:55:52Z")

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“What’s ‘incompetent’? What does ‘baffled’ mean?”

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2140 "2023-02-22T05:35:46Z")

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" I had a gal do that to me. It didn’t make her my wife."

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2141 "2023-02-22T14:22:53Z")

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“YAH-HOO! I just gotta kiss ya, Cherry!”

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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2142 "2023-02-22T15:29:59Z")

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> [@muldoonthief](#):
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> I eat three times a day, but my metabolism eats five times a day.

This was “Breaking Away”, spoken by Jackie Earle Haley’s “Moocher”.

“Do you know how to use that thing?”  
“Yes. The pointy end goes into the other man.”

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2143 "2023-02-22T17:33:13Z")

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MASK OF ZORRO.

“We professional burglars don’t fancy firearms much; we are _English,_ after all.”

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