# 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")\
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**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/484 "2022-04-09T19:59:44Z")

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An assortment (hopefully all accurate):

“You have a shower in your office? Are you an athlete or something?”

“I didn’t hear you wash your hands.”

“Lady, you are hell and gone from Cartagena!”

“Feel it vibrate?”

“It’s like Ivana Trump riding the subway.”

“That’s the second time I’ve shot that man while he was flying through the air.”

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**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/485 "2022-04-09T20:19:35Z")

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Two lines of dialogue from the same movie:

“I’m gonna marry Donald Trump!”

“Who do you think you are, lady? Hillary Clinton?”

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**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/486 "2022-04-09T20:21:21Z")

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1. The Game

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Eerily prescient:

“Nobody in the whole world is safe as long as he’s alive.”

Key Largo, 1948

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**Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/488 "2022-04-09T21:03:40Z")

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**A:** “Now, come on. You light another match.”  
**B:** “I generally smoke just after I eat. Come back in ten minutes.”  
**A:** “Ten minutes you’ll be smoking in hell. Get up!”

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**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 9, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/489 "2022-04-09T21:13:00Z")

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> [@Tierce](#):
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> “Lady, you are hell and gone from Cartagena!”

Romancing the Stone?

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**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/490 "2022-04-09T21:15:15Z")

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> [@Stephe96](#):
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> The Game

Correct. I thought that would be the most obscure one.

> [@Galactus](#):
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> Romancing the Stone?

Also correct.

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**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/491 "2022-04-09T21:25:21Z")

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I never would’ve gotten it had I not watched it again two nights ago.

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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:** [April 9, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/492 "2022-04-09T21:25:51Z")

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> [@Stephe96](#):
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> “I’m gonna marry Donald Trump!”
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> “Who do you think you are, lady? Hillary Clinton?”

_Die Hard 3_

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**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/493 "2022-04-09T21:28:46Z")

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That is correct.

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**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 9, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/494 "2022-04-09T22:39:53Z")

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> [@saucywench](#):
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> “Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?”

“Ha ha ha… why?”

_Tommy Boy_.

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**Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/495 "2022-04-10T02:33:11Z")

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“1941” is correct.

Oh, they’ll find some dumb son of a bitch to bring it up.

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**Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/496 "2022-04-10T02:50:09Z")

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No, my parents never got divorced, although I begged them to.

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**Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/497 "2022-04-10T02:56:40Z")

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**A:**"You will **rue** this day!”  
**B:** “The only **roux** here is in the gravy.”.

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**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/498 "2022-04-10T03:32:59Z")

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"Way I hear albatross was a ships good luck till some idiot killed it. Yes I’ve read a poem; try not to faint

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**Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/499 "2022-04-10T03:33:35Z")

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> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#):
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> Way I hear albatross was a ships good luck till some idiot killed it. Yes I’ve read a poem; try not to faint

_Serenity_.

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**Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/500 "2022-04-10T06:48:04Z")

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> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Oh, they’ll find some dumb son of a bitch to bring it up.

Some dumb son of a bitch\* in _The Towering Inferno_.

\* Steve McQueen

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**Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/501 "2022-04-10T09:46:53Z")

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“Hey, Dave. Ask me if my ass is fat!”

Minnie in _ **The Hateful Eight** _, just before she was killed.

“You sure are a good-lookin’ Colored boy!”

James Woods’ cheating wife/girlfriend in _ **The Onion Field** _.

“It’s Greek. I have a fondness for things Greek.”

Richard Burton telling Liz Taylor about his outfit in _ **Cleopatra** _. (The subtext is that Cleopatra was herself of Greek descent.)

**A:** “Die Panzer avancieren mit dem Sturm!”  
**B:** “Bitte, Feldmarschall?”  
**A:** “Sandsturm benutzen. Sofort. Los!”

James Mason as Erwin Rommel in _ **The Desert Rats** _.

**A:** “Now, come on. You light another match.”  
**B:** “I generally smoke just after I eat. Come back in ten minutes.”  
**A:** “Ten minutes you’ll be smoking in hell. Get up!”

Klaus Kinski and Lee van Cleef in _ **For a Few Dollars More** _.

**A:**"You will **rue** this day!”  
**B:** “The only **roux** here is in the gravy.”.

Batman and the Penguin in _ **Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders** _, as the Dynamic Duo are about to be cooked in a giant TV dinner.

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**Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/502 "2022-04-10T13:47:12Z")

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> [@lobotomyboy63](#):
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> My challenge: “Start using your head. That’s the lump that’s three feet above your ass.”

[Tom Hanks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqbfz1-195o) coaching in “A League of Their Own.” The best acting he ever did starts at 1:50 in the clip…the expressions he gets while trying not to yell at her again, wow!

Another:

**Old Woman:** On his hands and knees like that… He looks like a dog, doesn’t he? Looks like old Ginger.

**Old Man:** _Sicker’n_ a dog, that’s for sure.

American Graffiti…Toad was throwing up the Old Harper he’d drunk

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**Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/503 "2022-04-10T14:16:08Z")

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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Some dumb son of a bitch\* in _The Towering Inferno_ .

Yes!

And the monkey flips the switch.

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