# Challenge us with a non-famous line from a movie **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 135
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2685 "2023-10-28T03:38:30Z")
_Cabaret_? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2686 "2023-10-28T03:56:19Z")
Nada. Last clue: It is a sequel…sort of. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2687 "2023-10-28T03:58:09Z")
Someone guess it please! I know I know this, but can’t think of it. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2688 "2023-10-28T03:58:36Z")
> Hey. Are you the kind of kid who reads > the last page of a mystery first? > > Who pesters the magician > to tell you his tricks? > > Who sneaks downstairs to peek > at his Christmas presents? > > No. Of course you’re not! > > ♪ That’s why I’m not gonna tell you. ♪ ---
**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:** [October 28, 2023, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2689 "2023-10-28T04:45:38Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > > [@Czarcasm](#): > > > > “The sun never sets on those who ride into it.” > > From much earlier in the movie: “You’ll find happy hearts, and smiling faces > And tolerance for the ethnic races” A musical remake of _ **Lost Horizon** _? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2690 "2023-10-28T04:48:46Z")
There actually _was_ one, but it is not the movie we’re looking for. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2691 "2023-10-28T14:19:01Z")
“Reading a book?” [coupled with the campest double-take ever] ---
**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:** [October 29, 2023, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2692 "2023-10-29T02:48:52Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > “Reading a book?” > > [coupled with the campest double-take ever] Marie Dressler to Jean Harlow in _Dinner at Eight_. “Sorry we were gone so long, but we had to pick up [character]!” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2693 "2023-10-29T18:45:38Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Hey. Are you the kind of kid who reads > the last page of a mystery first? > > Who pesters the magician > to tell you his tricks? > > Who sneaks downstairs to peek > at his Christmas presents? > > No. Of course you’re not! > > ♪ That’s why I’m not gonna tell you. ♪ Centauri (Robert Preston channeling his \*Music Man \* character) in **The Last Starfighter** ---
**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:** [October 29, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2694 "2023-10-29T20:11:47Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > > [@terentii](#): > > > > “Well, I’ll be a monkey’s bare-assed uncle!” > > Try this one from the same movie: > > **A:** Show us the unit! > **B:** Why does everybody want to see my schlong? **A:** I want you to give this scumbag a cavity search. I’m talking Roto-Rooter. Don’t stop until you reach the back of his teeth. **B:** (_After the search_) Did I just score? ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2695 "2023-10-29T21:01:28Z")
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2696 "2023-10-29T21:03:03Z")
Yes! 👌 ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2697 "2023-10-29T21:10:16Z")
It was the last line that jogged my memory. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2698 "2023-10-29T23:12:06Z")
“Your Honor, I don’t think I can dignify this—creature—with any more questions.” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2699 "2023-10-29T23:45:40Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Centauri (Robert Preston channeling his \*Music Man \* character) in **The Last Starfighter** Correct! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2700 "2023-10-30T12:05:16Z")
Here’s a great exchange that’s probably not well-known these days: A: Who are you? B: I represent the Law and Sanity. A: I am the Law here! B: I said Law , and Sanity. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2701 "2023-10-30T13:38:45Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > “Well I’ll be fucked.” > “I wouldn’t bet against it.” BTW, this was “Lincoln”. James Spader plays F.N. Bilbo, a lobbyist/fixer who is working for Secretary of State Seward to convince/blackmail Senators into voting for the 13th amendment. He’s been told in no uncertain terms that he works for Seward, not Lincoln, and isn’t even to mention Lincoln’s name in his work. There’s a scene where Bilbo and his 2 aides are playing poker when Lincoln unexpectedly walks in, leading to Bilbo jumping up and exclaiming “Well I’ll be fucked!” and Lincoln replying “I wouldn’t bet against it.” ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2702 "2023-10-30T22:59:52Z")
No idea - but it is a great exchange ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2703 "2023-10-30T23:34:29Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > “Well, it’s just that you get to do all the dangerous stuff, and I get to parallel park.” > > “So how did you get a name like Snake, anyway? Whaddya got a long wee-wee?” - updated (this is right wording of the quote) > > “Very good. You have the right to remain silent. Now what else?” > “Anything I say may be used against me in a court of law.” > “That’s two, you’re doing great. Now what’s next?” > “I have the right to an attorney. If I cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to me by the court.” > “Yeah! Yeah. Now do you understand these rights you just explained to us?” > “Oh yeah.” > “It is such a pleasure to deal with professionals. Refreshing.” > > One more … > > “You two weren’t, uh, interrogating a suspect up on the roof, were you?” > “We got an alibi, Captain. Snake, tell him where we were or we’ll kill you, too.” Simply more cinematic philistinism, it’s the only explanation. Answer: _Running Scared_ - [IMDB Link](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091875/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_8_nm_0_q_running%2520scared) * * * Ok, this one should be easier: “What kind of an asshole grows up in Seattle and doesn’t even know how to swim?” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2704 "2023-10-31T00:47:23Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > No idea - but it is a great exchange It is. It’s between Ralph Richardson and Raymond Massey in H.G. Wells’ **Things to Come** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=134) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=136)