# 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:** 67
**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:** [June 10, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1324 "2022-06-10T13:53:16Z")
“Tastes like Baby Food!” **RoboCop** (1987) “We are the Martians now” (Not _The Martian Chronicles_) **Quatermass and the Pit** AKA **Five Million Years to Earth** (1967) “What’s that screaming? A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming…” **Barbarella** (1968, believe it or not ---
**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 10, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1325 "2022-06-10T17:02:24Z")
“Nature, [character name], is what we are put on earth to rise above.” ---
**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 10, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1326 "2022-06-10T17:20:17Z")
_The African Queen_ ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1327 "2022-06-10T19:51:58Z")
“He was a slob. Did you ever see him eat? Starving children could fill their bellies on the food that ended up in his beard and on his clothes. Dogs would gather to watch him eat. I’ve never understood gluttony, but I hate it." ---
**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 10, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1328 "2022-06-10T23:47:02Z")
**A:** “Aren’t you ashamed of such childish behavior?” **B:** “Oh, there was nothing ‘childish’ about it, I assure you!” ---
**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)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1329 "2022-06-11T14:46:35Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > “I’m glad I met you, because now I can forget all about you.” Anyone? ---
**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 11, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1330 "2022-06-11T14:52:07Z")
“Go. Sleep badly. Any questions, hesitate to call.” “Bad. Sleep bad. Otherwise you’re saying that the mechanism that…” “What? Who taught you grammar? ‘Badly’ is an adverb.” ---
**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 11, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1331 "2022-06-11T17:32:36Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > “He was a slob. Did you ever see him eat? Starving children could fill their bellies on the food that ended up in his beard and on his clothes. Dogs would gather to watch him eat. I’ve never understood gluttony, but I hate it." _ **Se7en** _? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1332 "2022-06-11T21:01:09Z")
“He put his disease in me.” _Blue Velvet_ ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1333 "2022-06-12T00:03:36Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Se7en No, but I can see how it would fit. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1334 "2022-06-12T13:13:23Z")
The Razor’s Edge. “Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors, nothin’. Nothin’ to do but throw rocks at tin cans, and we gotta bring our own tin cans” ---
**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 12, 2022, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1335 "2022-06-12T13:21:31Z")
“I want you to picture a bullet inside your head. Can you do that for me?” “Fuck you. Anyway, that’s ambiguous.” “Ambiguous? I don’t think so.” “No, I think it means, when you say, ‘Picture it inside your head’, is that ‘a bullet will be inside your head’ or ‘picture it in your head’, like an image?” ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1336 "2022-06-13T12:23:59Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > “Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors, nothin’. Nothin’ to do but throw rocks at tin cans, and we gotta bring our own tin cans” Earl Holliman as the Cook in **Forbidden Planet** ---
**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:** [June 14, 2022, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1337 "2022-06-14T14:26:54Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > “I want you to picture a bullet inside your head. Can you do that for me?” _Kiss Kiss Bang Bang_ And I’m pretty sure the “Who taught you grammar” quote is from that as well. I remember that “Who taught you math” bit quite well. ---
**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 14, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1338 "2022-06-14T14:52:30Z")
Yep. I love that movie. “We’ve nothing to declare!” “Except a cello!” [echos] ---
**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 14, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1339 "2022-06-14T15:24:59Z")
_ **The Living Daylights** _? ---
**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 14, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1340 "2022-06-14T15:29:43Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > **A:** “Aren’t you ashamed of such childish behavior?” > **B:** “Oh, there was nothing ‘childish’ about it, I assure you!” Peter Sellers as the crooked hospital administrator in _ **Where Does It Hurt?** _ a greatly underappreciated comedy. (He was being reprimanded for banging a coworker while on the job.) ---
**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:** [June 14, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1341 "2022-06-14T15:53:01Z")
“A receiver must be like a transmitter. I think you’re a crystal - in fact this one! This diamond! In here, there is infinite storage space for refracted light patterns. Yes or no” “You have me in the palm of your hand!” Sean Connery as Zed and “The Tabernacle” in **Zardoz** ---
**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:** [June 14, 2022, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1342 "2022-06-14T16:39:50Z")
“And _you_, you imposter, I’ll have your memory pulled so fast you’ll never forget it!” **Creation of the Humanoids** , a low-budget science fiction film with a lot of abysmal acting, but some pretty good stuff in it, nonetheless. ---
**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 14, 2022, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1343 "2022-06-14T16:54:59Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > _ **The Living Daylights** _? Yes. Best Bond movie ever, if you ask me. “It’s not that bad.” _gets a funny look from his companion_ “Well, I’m not saying I’d like to build a _summer home_ here, but the trees are actually quite lovely.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=66) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=68)