# Misremembered movie quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2009, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misremembered-movie-quotes/484671 "2009-02-06T05:02:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misremembered-movie-quotes/484671/1 "2009-02-06T05:02:22Z")
Okay, I’m sure there’s a thread on this. I have searched twice. I don’t have all night, so that was it. Here’s what I remember: In _All the President’s Men_ one of the reporters is leaving the newsroom, mostly people in the newsroom are against Woodward& Bernstein (other reoprters, that is), but Dustin Hoffman is on his way out, and a fellow reporter, a younger woman, says, “May the source be with you.” Obviously, my memory is wrong. The movie could not have had that in it, as at the time of the whole Watergate deal, Star Wars hadn’t come out yet. Yet, I remember it. So I must be remembering it from some other newspaper movie. But I don’t know which one! If anyone knows the movie, I’d appreciate it. If anyone else has a weird misremembered (but nonexistent) movie quote, please share. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misremembered-movie-quotes/484671/2 "2009-02-06T10:25:05Z")
Sorry, **Hilarity N. Suze** , can’t help with your quote, but since you’ve opened the topic up to sharing . . . I don’t think I’ll face much opposition if I assert that the most famous “Misremembered Movie Quote” is “Play it again, Sam”- a line that most definitely is _not_ in the movie _Casablanca_. Now, I’m sure that even if the greater public doesn’t realize that this is a misquote at least the greater population of the SDMB knows full well that the line “Play it again, Sam” is never uttered in the movie. So it’s not the misquote itself that I bring to the board’s attention. I bring it up because I only recently read [AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movie Quotes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_movie_quotes), a listing of all the best/most famous quotes in the history of American Film. Number 28 on the list is “Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By’.” Now, AFI does have the correct quote, that is the line as spoken in the movie. However, I don’t think it qualifies for the list- the accurate quote is _not_ a famous movie quote. It is the _misquote_ that is famous. Nobody ever goes around quoting “Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By’.” The true quote has no fame whatsoever. Ditto Number 36 from _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_: “Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”- this is _not_ a famous movie quote. Never in my life have I ever heard anyone quote this, thus I do not think it qualifies for the list. What you’re likely to hear is the famous _misquote_: “Badges!? We don’t need no stinking badges!” If it doesn’t violate your own personal “Movie Quote Rules” you could say that “Badges!? We don’t need no stinking badges!” is an _accurate_ quote from _Blazing Saddles_- though in the Mel Brooks movie the entire point of the line is to reference _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misremembered-movie-quotes/484671/3 "2009-02-06T15:07:33Z")
A garbled version of a quote counts as remembering it. The point is the meaning and the source, not the ability to quote it verbatim. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misremembered-movie-quotes/484671/4 "2009-02-06T15:16:05Z")
Wikipedia’s got a fairly good list… [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_famous\_misquotations#Famous\_misquotations\_of\_fictional\_persons](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_misquotations#Famous_misquotations_of_fictional_persons) Including “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” and the badges thing. Naturally, Leonard McCoy never would have said “Dammit I’m a doctor not a…” or dammit anything on 60s network television, but that’s TV not movies… ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misremembered-movie-quotes/484671/5 "2009-02-06T20:18:56Z")
I think what I might be looking at here is misattribution, rather than simply misremembering the actual quote. I _know_ I heard that quote in a movie. I know it can’t have come from the movie I think it came from. If nothing else, someone would have listed it on IMdB as a goof. That wiki list of misquotations was very interesting! ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misremembered-movie-quotes/484671/6 "2009-02-06T20:24:07Z")
Judy! Judy! Judy! ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misremembered-movie-quotes/484671/7 "2009-02-06T20:47:19Z")
**Hilarity** , I’m wondering if you might be conflating with an episode of “Lou Grant”. I don’t remember the quote, but the series would have been on at the right time for a \*Star Wars \* joke. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misremembered-movie-quotes/484671/8 "2009-02-06T21:02:42Z")
> [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](#): > > **Hilarity** , I’m wondering if you might be conflating with an episode of “Lou Grant”. I don’t remember the quote, but the series would have been on at the right time for a \*Star Wars \* joke. That’s possible. I watched it, when possible. Ironically, my own newspaper job at the time conflicted, and there was no Tivo. But I caught enough episodes to make it a likely source. ---
**Author:** ![imfloating](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bc79bd/32.png) [@imfloating](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imfloating)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misremembered-movie-quotes/484671/9 "2009-02-06T21:12:30Z")
There was a TV series called “Quark” starring Richard Benjamin which first aired 24 FEb 1977. The first episode was titled “May the source be with you”. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misremembered-movie-quotes/484671/10 "2009-02-06T21:16:07Z")
> [@imfloating](#): > > There was a TV series called “Quark” starring Richard Benjamin which first aired 24 FEb 1977. > The first episode was titled “May the source be with you”. I had never heard of this one, or at least I don’t remember it, but I found it when I googled the phrase. ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misremembered-movie-quotes/484671/11 "2009-02-07T03:34:41Z")
One thread to list all the misremembered movie quotes? We’re gonna need a bigger boat. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misremembered-movie-quotes/484671/12 "2009-02-07T04:45:18Z")
What we got here, is… this guy would get _dileberate_ penaltys, and Damned! if he wasn’t there in the hole going, “um-um-um-um”! Thats the way he wants it, thats how he gets it! Not a bunch of … PUSSIES! ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misremembered-movie-quotes/484671/13 "2009-02-07T04:53:20Z")
Kiss me, [del]you[/del] my fool. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misremembered-movie-quotes/484671/14 "2009-02-07T08:44:29Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > I don’t think I’ll face much opposition if I assert that the most famous “Misremembered Movie Quote” is “Play it again, Sam”- a line that most definitely is _not_ in the movie _Casablanca_. Now, I’m sure that even if the greater public doesn’t realize that this is a misquote at least the greater population of the SDMB knows full well that the line “Play it again, Sam” is never uttered in the movie. Moreover, when people say “play it again, Sam” they are evoking Rick, not Ilsa. “You played it for her, now play it for me…play it!” Ilsa’s line does not have nearly the emotional force. It was rather clueless of the compilers to list Ilsa’s line in their top 100 (btw, I believe “paraphrase” is more to the point than “misquote”, as the verbatim quote is not easily applicable to other contexts). Speaking of cluelessness, I was shocked by the omission of “shocked…SHOCKED” from the top 100 list.