# 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")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
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“I’m glad I met you, because now I can forget all about you.”

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**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:** [June 2, 2022, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1285 "2022-06-02T03:42:29Z")

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_ **Ratatouille** _?

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**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:** [June 2, 2022, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1286 "2022-06-02T04:30:49Z")

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> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#):
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> Fuckin eh! (hint: said by a certain ‘chef’)

> [@eschereal](#):
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> l have a strong memory of “fuckin-a” being a repeated line in The Deer Hunter, so much so that that was what I said upon arising from my seat as the lights carne up, but it was not uttered with a Canadian accent.

It’s interesting the way memory works, you’re in the right ball park. I posted a Harrison Ford line and someone said ‘‘I can hear that in a Lee Marvin or Bruce Willis voice,’’ which, IMHO, was a fair cop.

_Dennis Hopper: "You gonna call him crazy?‘’_  
_Chef: ‘‘Fuckin A.’’_

The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness

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**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:** [June 2, 2022, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1287 "2022-06-02T04:39:30Z")

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Correct, from “Apocalypse Now”. Married to the rawwwwrr-like Marilu Henner back in the early 80s.  
Was also in the remarkably putrid “Futz”.

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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:** [June 2, 2022, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1288 "2022-06-02T05:10:01Z")

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> [@outlierrn](#):
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> The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness

_Bull Durham_

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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:** [June 2, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1289 "2022-06-02T15:32:38Z")

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“Most days I wish I never met you. Because then I could sleep at night, and I wouldn’t… I wouldn’t have to walk around with the knowledge that there’s someone like you out there… and I didn’t have to watch you throw it all away.”

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**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:** [June 2, 2022, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1290 "2022-06-02T15:35:20Z")

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Woman: “No blood on the outside. Are you bleeding inside?!”

Child: “How would I know. It’s inside.”

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**Author:** ![yev\_zeppelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ba8739/32.png) [@yev\_zeppelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yev_zeppelin)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1291 "2022-06-02T21:50:02Z")

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> [@teelabrown](#):
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> “I was in the neighborhood, feelin’ daffy.”

Miller’s Crossing

> [@ekedolphin](#):
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> “Most days I wish I never met you. Because then I could sleep at night, and I wouldn’t… I wouldn’t have to walk around with the knowledge that there’s someone like you out there… and I didn’t have to watch you throw it all away.”

Good Will Hunting

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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:** [June 2, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1292 "2022-06-02T21:56:24Z")

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> [@yev\_zeppelin](#):
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> Good Will Hunting

Yes indeed.

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**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:** [June 2, 2022, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1293 "2022-06-02T22:17:09Z")

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> [@yev\_zeppelin](#):
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> Miller’s Crossing

Yeppers.

“Something prickly, and hard to eradicate.”

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**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:** [June 2, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1294 "2022-06-02T23:01:56Z")

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OK, this is pretty obscure:

‘‘That’s mighty white of you, give me a choice between you killing me and the law hanging me. You got to do better than that!’’

''Do I, George?" draws knife “_Do_ I?”

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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:** [June 3, 2022, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1295 "2022-06-03T00:23:56Z")

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“Blood! That should be on the inside!”

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**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:** [June 3, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1296 "2022-06-03T01:36:23Z")

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“That pistol is restricted for the use of Army personnel. It can’t be purchased or even owned—legally.”

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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:** [June 3, 2022, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1297 "2022-06-03T01:41:44Z")

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“I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned! Or see you hanged at Fort Smith at Judge Parker’s convenience. Which will it be?”  
“I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!”  
“Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!”

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**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:** [June 3, 2022, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1298 "2022-06-03T01:45:59Z")

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Easy one! _ **True Grit** _ with John Wayne.

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**Author:** ![KCB615](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@KCB615](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KCB615)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1299 "2022-06-03T02:10:31Z")

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> [@teelabrown](#):
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> “Something prickly, and hard to eradicate.”

Master and Commander. “Name a shrub after me…”

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**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:** [June 3, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1300 "2022-06-03T02:44:50Z")

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> [@KCB615](#):
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> Master and Commander. “Name a shrub after me…”

You got it.

“Somebody washed my cup. Sugar’s gone.”

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**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:** [June 6, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1301 "2022-06-06T17:47:16Z")

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**A:** “You makin’ fun of me, boy?”  
**B:** [_Smiles_]

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1302 "2022-06-08T18:13:44Z")

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“Are you stupid, simple, or slow? Which one?”

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**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1303 "2022-06-08T18:38:02Z")

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> [@ekedolphin](#):
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> “I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned! Or see you hanged at Fort Smith at Judge Parker’s convenience. Which will it be?”  
> “I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!”  
> “Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!”

True Grit. Guessing just the remake because I don’t recall the swearing in John Wayne’s version. No idea which version is closer to the book.

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