# 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:** 195
**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:** [July 19, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3885 "2025-07-19T21:41:35Z")
_ **Patton** _? ---
**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:** [July 19, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3886 "2025-07-19T23:51:14Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > _Stripes_ - after Stillman missteps (an ad-lib, by the way … unless you’re talking about a different movie altogether). That’s the one. In a movie with so many big scenes and characters, that’s almost a throwaway moment, so I thought it might have gone unnoticed. > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > “Dave’s a killer!” > “Dave’s a mess.” _Slap Shot_ ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3887 "2025-07-20T01:14:47Z")
Time to come back in and provide some answers to my quotes that haven’t been solved (or had the answer posted by me, I think I may be going for a record for those) > [@peccavi](#): > > “I’m not a gentleman; I’m an Irishman!” [Swashbuckler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swashbuckler_(film)) (1976), spoken by Robert Shaw as the pirate captain, Red Ned Lynch > [@peccavi](#): > > “Yitz, Toto.” The second quote I’ve posted from [The Palm Beach Story](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palm_Beach_Story) (1942), a Preston Sturges screwball comedy. > [@peccavi](#): > > Here’s a more recent (2015) non-famous line in a non-famous film: > > _ **“I am a T-Rex! I am invincible!!”** _ [Mr. Right](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Right_(2015_film)) (2015) An ultraviolent action comedy starring Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick, with the quoted line capping a faceoff between Anna Kendrick’s character and the chief villain trying to murderize her. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3888 "2025-07-28T12:44:59Z")
“Parliament hath not the authority.” ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3889 "2025-07-28T13:34:36Z")
“I’m willing to pay anything — beyond reason, of course.” ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3890 "2025-07-28T19:12:28Z")
_The Madness of King George_ ? ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3891 "2025-07-28T19:41:34Z")
_A Man for All Seasons._ ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3892 "2025-07-28T20:54:19Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > > [@Superdude](#): > > > > Person 1: Hey, loser. > > Person 2: Hi, idiot. > > Hint: Person 1 and Person 2 are married in the film. Since no one has guessed this since it was posted in April, the answer is _Se7en_. This is the first exchange between Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow when Morgan Freeman comes to their apartment for dinner. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3893 "2025-07-28T21:20:05Z")
That’s it! Spoken by both Paul Scofield and John Hurt, IIRC. Well done! 👍 ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3894 "2025-07-28T21:21:36Z")
Good guess, but no, SFAIK. 🙁 ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3895 "2025-07-28T21:26:04Z")
From memory: “Ah, what little family doesn’t have its ups and downs?” ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3896 "2025-07-28T21:44:38Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Spoken by both Paul Scofield and John Hurt, IIRC. I think it’s only Richard Rich (Hurt) who says it, claiming he’s quoting More (Scofield). But you misquoted slightly. It’s, “He said, ‘Parliament had not the competence.’” Here’s the scene. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HPxHEVA1wds/maxresdefault.jpg "A Man for All Seasons (1966) - Rich's Perjury Scene (8/10) | Movieclips") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPxHEVA1wds) One of my favorite lines in the film is the final one in that clip: More learns that RIch has been made attorney general for Wales, and says, “Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for Wales?” ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3897 "2025-07-28T21:59:21Z")
“Mediocrities everywhere…I absolve you…I absolve you…I absolve you all.” ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3898 "2025-07-28T22:12:12Z")
_Amadeus._ (I knew I knew it, and was trying to dredge it up from my so-called brain. When I read it to my wife, she remembered instantly.) ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3899 "2025-07-28T22:17:44Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “Ah, what little family doesn’t have its ups and downs?” Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn) in _The Lion in Winter._ I might have had a harder time with this one if you hadn’t quoted \*A Man for All Seasons" immediately before. I’ve seen both at least a dozen times, many of those in repertory theaters. (BTW, she doesn’t say “little.”) ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3900 "2025-07-28T23:15:58Z")
I know what you mean. I saw them back-to-back at a small theater in MPS/StP during the winter of '77–'78. My favorite line in _ **Lion** _ comes when Peter O’Toole leans back in his chair, puts his feet up on a table, and says “My God, I love being King!” Not bad after almost 50 years, eh? Though I was sure she said “little” in either the first or second half of the sentence. I once bet a girlfriend and fellow film-lover that it was Peter O’Toole and not Richard Harris who played Henry II, but we broke up before I could collect. She still owes me a large pepperoni pizza and a half-gallon of Cherry Coke. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3901 "2025-07-29T00:28:01Z")
Yes it is. Love the movie and that final scene. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3902 "2025-08-02T20:22:26Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > ‘What kind of supreme being would condone such irony’? Tremors 3: Back to Perfection ---
**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:** [August 3, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3903 "2025-08-03T18:34:21Z")
“It has to be damp.” ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3904 "2025-08-04T04:40:17Z")
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