# 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:** 45
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/884 "2022-04-26T21:23:35Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > “Do you have any lines available for celebrities, or emergencies? […] I’m _both_ . I’m a celebrity in an emergency. Can you put me through on _that_ line, please?” Groundhog Day “Someday I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement.” ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/885 "2022-04-26T22:11:27Z")
> [@justmeetee](#): > > Don’t worry, on a new job it’s quite common for things not to go well at first. Crazy Cora in Quigley Down Under. Fantastic movie. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/886 "2022-04-26T23:26:58Z")
I am the fool for Christ, and the Paraclete of Caborca, the Wrath of the Lamb, the Angel of the Bottomless… Pit. ---
**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 27, 2022, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/887 "2022-04-27T02:09:58Z")
“I’ll have a twist of lemon.” ---
**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 27, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/888 "2022-04-27T02:18:24Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > Groundhog Day Correct. “Not born… _shit_ into existence.” ---
**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:** [April 27, 2022, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/889 "2022-04-27T03:01:33Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Think “self-immolation.” Too obvious a hint: _Harold and Maude._ One of the dates Harold’s mother sets up. ---
**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 27, 2022, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/890 "2022-04-27T11:10:27Z")
Bingo! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/891 "2022-04-27T11:14:24Z")
**"Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’."** (Famous actor but in one of his lesser known movies." ---
**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 27, 2022, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/892 "2022-04-27T11:15:30Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “While I live, while my blood burns hot, your daughter is not safe in her tent.” To quote the actor who delivered this line: “I see **[…]** as a gunslinger, and that’s how I’m going to play him.” ---
**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:** [April 27, 2022, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/893 "2022-04-27T12:24:49Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > Damn, I know that line about shame, husband, doctor, magician. I’m hearing it in Vincent Price’s voice. Am I close? Unfortunately, no. he was a character actor who you might’ve heard of if you pay attention to that kind of actor, but otherwise not. The movie’s from the early 1960s, if that helps. But it’s more obscure than it deserves to be. ---
**Author:** ![mandala](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mandala/32/95_2.png) [@mandala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mandala)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/894 "2022-04-27T12:41:45Z")
“Like I said, it ain’t me you gotta worry about.” ---
**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 27, 2022, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/895 "2022-04-27T13:58:19Z")
English subtitles: **A:** “Sigfrid, when are you going to stop trying to force yourself on Inga?” **B:** “When you stop trying to force yourself on Mooska.” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/896 "2022-04-27T14:03:07Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > **“Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’.”** > > (Famous actor but in one of his lesser known movies." Clint Eastwood in _The Outlaw Josey Wales_ ---
**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:** [April 27, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/897 "2022-04-27T14:21:16Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Unfortunately, no. he was a character actor who you might’ve heard of if you pay attention to that kind of actor, but otherwise not. > > The movie’s from the early 1960s, if that helps. But it’s more obscure than it deserves to be. It came to me in the middle of the night when I was half asleep. I sat up in bed and said “_Sinbad_”! But I don’t know the quoted actor, nor even if I have the correct full title of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/898 "2022-04-27T14:39:36Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > To quote the actor who delivered this line: “I see **[…]** as a gunslinger, and that’s how I’m going to play him.” Based just on this description, not the quote itself, I will guess John Wayne as Genghis Khan in _The Conqueror._ ---
**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 27, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/899 "2022-04-27T14:41:20Z")
You got it! 👌 Wayne found the script lying on someone’s desk and decided it was the role he was “born to play.” ---
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/900 "2022-04-27T15:34:50Z")
> [@mandala](#): > > “Like I said, it ain’t me you gotta worry about.” Pitch Black ---
**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:** [April 27, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/901 "2022-04-27T16:22:43Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > It came to me in the middle of the night when I was half asleep. I sat up in bed and said “ _Sinbad_ ”! But I don’t know the quoted actor, nor even if I have the correct full title of the movie. DingDingDingDingDingDing!!! It was actually **Captain Sindbad** , a 1963 Indie film that deserves to be better known that it is. No Harryhausen animation, but siome decent special effects. It starred Guy Williams (Zorro on Disney, and the Dad on Lost in Space) in the title role, Pedro Armendariz (who was in several westerns, but is probably best remembered as Ali Kerim Bey in the second James Bond Film, **From Russia With Love** ) as the Bad Guy (also named Kerim, coincidentally), and character actor Abraham Sofaer as the magician Galgo, who spoke the lines. Another of his quotes was “Take everything off – I can’t grow feathers on silk!” He was speaking to Princess Jana, who wanted to be turned into a Firebird to fly and warn Sindbad about a trap. This being a 1963 kids’ movie, she couldn’t really strip down as far as the script suggests, but she did get pretty skimpy. Kerim, by the way, couldn’t be killed because he kept his heart protected in a special container outside his body – an old idea in Arabian Nights fiction, and probably where Rowling got the idea for horcruxes. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/902 "2022-04-27T16:31:32Z")
Nitpick: it was an old idea in [Russian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koschei) fiction. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/903 "2022-04-27T17:10:01Z")
Russian fiction, too, then. They didn’t have a copyright on it, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=44) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=46)