# 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:** 23
**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:** [April 8, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/444 "2022-04-08T02:18:10Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > “I’ve just gotta know… we’re gonna _try_ to love each other?” > “I’d like to. But he’s out there right now. And I’ve gotta go to work.” Vicki Vale and Bruce Wayne. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2022, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/445 "2022-04-08T02:22:00Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Vicki Vale and Bruce Wayne Correct. “I’d like to ask you a question. You don’t believe the boy’s story; how come you believe the woman’s? She’s one of ‘them’ too, isn’t she?” “…You’re a pretty smart fella, aren’t you?” ---
**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:** [April 8, 2022, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/446 "2022-04-08T02:23:17Z")
12 Angry Men ---
**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:** [April 8, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/447 "2022-04-08T02:42:22Z")
Yes. “Despite my rejection of most Judeo-Christian ethics, I am, within the framework of the baseball season… monogamous.” ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/448 "2022-04-08T02:51:55Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > “Despite my rejection of most Judeo-Christian ethics, I am, within the framework of the baseball season… monogamous.” _Bull Durham_. === I came back to the movie I had paused earlier this afternoon on youtube and took the very next line for this thread: “I guess most of the people who come to these sort of parties are drunken idiots.” ---
**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:** [April 8, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/449 "2022-04-08T02:54:27Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#): > > _Bull Durham_ . Correct. “Apology accepted, Captain Needa.” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/450 "2022-04-08T02:55:59Z")
Is that Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/451 "2022-04-08T02:56:27Z")
Damn. beaten to the punch. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/452 "2022-04-08T02:58:21Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > “Apology accepted, Captain Needa.” Darth Vader in _The Empire Strikes Back_. Is there **any** line in the Star Wars original trilogy that could be considered “non-famous”? ---
**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:** [April 8, 2022, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/453 "2022-04-08T03:03:31Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Is there **any** line in the Star Wars original trilogy that could be considered “non-famous”? I tried to find one, but fuhgettaboutit. Here’s one that I posted a few hundred posts ago that went unanswered: “I don’t care of Helen of Troy walks into the room; that’s Game 6!” ---
**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:** [April 8, 2022, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/454 "2022-04-08T03:19:30Z")
“You think you’ve been getting away with it all this time, standing by. Well, son … your bystanding days are over! You 're in it now, **up to your neck!** ” ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/455 "2022-04-08T03:53:24Z")
``` "Nah....now, I don't know anything about that." ``` ---
**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:** [April 8, 2022, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/456 "2022-04-08T04:35:31Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > “Ah, the direct approach. I admire that in a man with a mask.” Wild guess: Jack Nicholson as The Joker in _ **Batman** _? ---
**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:** [April 8, 2022, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/457 "2022-04-08T05:11:32Z")
Two of mine that I don’t think have been answered. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > " Hi, Lloyd. Little slow tonight, isn’t it?" _The Shining_, when Jack Nicholson goes into the empty ballroom and starts talking to the bartender. That’s the line that always pops into my head when I go into some business and I’m the only customer there. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “I don’t know, man; I just got here meself.” _Mad Max_, just after the big crash in the opening chase sequence. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2022, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/458 "2022-04-08T05:38:06Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Wild guess: Jack Nicholson as The Joker in _ **Batman** _ ? Right series, wrong movie. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2022, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/459 "2022-04-08T06:34:06Z")
Damn! ☹ ---
**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:** [April 8, 2022, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/460 "2022-04-08T06:45:31Z")
“It’s Greek. I have a fondness for things Greek.” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/461 "2022-04-08T14:40:16Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > _Waiting for Guffman_ . Indeed. > [@outlierrn](#): > > Are my eyes really brown? I’m vacillating between Cheech and Chong and _Double Indemnity_… What? Over? Did you say ‘over’? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!..It ain’t over now, ‘cause when the goin’ gets tough, the tough get goin’. Who’s with me? Let’s go! Come on!..(runs to the front door but no one followed him, and then, returning:) What the f–k happened to the Delta I used to know? Where’s the spirit? Where’s the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you’re gonna let it be the worst. ‘Ooh, we’re afraid to go with you, Bluto, we might get in trouble.’ (shouting) Well, just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I’m not gonna take this. Wormer, he’s a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer… ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/462 "2022-04-08T15:26:41Z")
The thread title says “non-famous line”. The only more famous line from that movie would be “Look. I’m a zit!” ---
**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:** [April 8, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/463 "2022-04-08T16:27:07Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > I’m vacillating between Cheech and Chong and _Double Indemnity_ … No, I’m afraid neither. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=24)