# Movie Quote Free Association **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 12, 2012, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259 "2012-08-12T10:23:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/242 "2012-10-04T14:43:23Z")
“I’m not anxious to kill her, I’m not anxious to kill anyone. You see, I’m not a born soldier. I was trapped. You may find me facetious from time to time, but if I didn’t make some rather bad jokes I’d go out of my mind. No, I prefer to leave the killing to someone like you, an officer and a gentleman, a leader of men.” (Hmm, am wondering if that’s where the title of the 1982 movie came from) _An Officer and a Gentleman_ ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/243 "2012-10-04T14:51:51Z")
Answer from Wikipedia: The film’s title uses an old expression from the British Royal Navy and subsequently from the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice, as being charged with “conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman” (from 1860). Back to the game: _An Officer and a Gentleman_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/244 "2012-10-04T14:59:02Z")
I can’t BELIEVE what I’m seeing! Where you people BEEN, all your lives? Listening to Mick Jagger music and bad-mouthing your country, no doubt! Disney’s\*\*\* Cars\*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/245 "2012-10-04T15:13:35Z")
Okay, here we go. Focus. Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast. _The Incredibles_ ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/246 "2012-10-04T15:21:49Z")
“No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.” _Toy Story_ ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/247 "2012-10-04T15:26:02Z")
“Mrs. Potato Head! Mrs. Potato Head!” _Monsters, Inc._ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/248 "2012-10-04T15:41:06Z")
“Oh, that’s great, blame it on the little guy. How original. He must’ve read the schedule wrong with his _one eye!_” _The Hidden_ (1987) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/249 "2012-10-04T15:42:50Z")
"Yo, hippy, what kind of dude are you? _Summer of 42_ ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/250 "2012-10-04T15:43:50Z")
“Yo, hippy, what kind of dude are you?” _Homicide_ (1991) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/251 "2012-10-04T15:48:22Z")
> [@echo7tango](#): > > "Yo, hippy, what kind of dude are you? > _Summer of 42_ D’oh! “Nothing from that first day I saw her, and no one that has happened to me since, has ever been as frightening and as confusing. For no person I’ve ever known has ever done more to make me feel more sure, more insecure, more important, and less significant.” _A Lion in Winter_ ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/252 "2012-10-04T15:50:51Z")
🙂 “You look fit. War agrees with you. I keep informed; I follow all your slaughters from a distance.” _Patton_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/253 "2012-10-04T15:51:48Z")
Thank the general and tell him I have no desire to drink with him or any other Russian son of a bitch. _ **South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut** _ ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/254 "2012-10-04T16:01:49Z")
“Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.” _Windtalkers_ ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/255 "2012-10-04T16:32:22Z")
“Yeah… I’m a good fucking marine, that’s why they gave me this detail.” _Platoon_ ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/256 "2012-10-04T16:53:28Z")
“I love this place at night, the stars. There’s no right or wrong in them. They’re just there.” _Star Wars_ ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/257 "2012-10-04T17:20:23Z")
“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.” _Alien_ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/258 "2012-10-04T17:28:08Z")
“I admire its purity.” _The Time Traveler’s Wife_ ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/259 "2012-10-04T17:32:55Z")
“If you traveled back to then, why couldn’t you have stopped her from getting into that goddamn car?” _Time Bandits_ ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/260 "2012-10-04T17:38:04Z")
“Oh, Benson… Dear Benson, you are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence.” _Traffic_ ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/261 "2012-10-04T17:45:10Z")
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