# Movie Quote Free Association

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259>\
**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\
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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/462 "2012-10-15T16:11:15Z")

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“I tried to prove myself to you, But I know nothing of Books, or Alphabets, or Sun, or Moon, or… All I know is Joseph Loves Shannon”

_Top Gun_

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/463 "2012-10-15T16:22:17Z")

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That was some of the best flying I’ve seen to date - right up to the part where you got killed.

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Batman Forever\*\*\*

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/464 "2012-10-15T17:04:56Z")

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“Oh please. You’re as blind as a bat!”

_Batman Returns_

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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:** [October 15, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/465 "2012-10-15T17:30:08Z")

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“Bottom line: She tries to blackmail me, I’ll throw her out a higher window.”

_Life is Beautiful_

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/466 "2012-10-15T17:36:27Z")

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“If you speak my name, I vanish. What am I?”

_The Red Violin_

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**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 15, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/467 "2012-10-15T18:20:00Z")

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“What do you do when the thing you most wanted, so perfect, just comes?”

_Star Trek_ (2009)

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/468 "2012-10-15T18:53:58Z")

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“One tiny crack in the hull and our blood boils in thirteen seconds. Solar flare might crop up, cook us in our seats. And wait’ll you’re sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles, see if you’re still so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding. Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.”

_Galaxy Quest_

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**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 15, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/469 "2012-10-15T18:58:27Z")

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“By Grabthar’s hammer… I will avenge you!”

_Intolerance_

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/470 "2012-10-15T18:58:49Z")

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By Grabthar’s hammer, by the sons of Worvan, you shall be avenged.

_ **The Santa Clause** _

Oops… too late.\*\*\* Intolerance \*\*\*it is.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/471 "2012-10-15T19:13:28Z")

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I found 5 movies named Intolerance, and none had any quotes! So, The Santa Clause:

“Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! When I get home, I’m getting a CAT scan!”

_Fred Clause_

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/472 "2012-10-15T20:38:17Z")

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I don’t hate you, Nick. I just wish you’d never been born.

_ **Sideways** _

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/473 "2012-10-15T21:21:18Z")

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Good I like non fiction. There is so much to know about this world. I think you read something somebody just invented, waste of time.

_Election_

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/474 "2012-10-16T13:34:45Z")

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“Dear God, I know I don’t believe in you, but since I’ll be starting Catholic school soon, I thought I should at least practice. Let’s see, what do I want? I want Lisa to realize what a bitch she is and feel really bad and apologize for how she hurt me and know how much I still love her. In spite of everything, I still want Paul to win the election tomorrow, not that cunt Tracy. Oh, and I also want a really expensive pair of leather pants and someday I wanna be really good friends with Madonna. Love, Tammy.”

_Pleasantville_

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**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 16, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/475 "2012-10-16T14:00:12Z")

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“I did the slut thing, David. It got kinda old.”  
_For Love of the Game_

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/476 "2012-10-16T14:06:37Z")

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“There’s a bunch of cameras out there right now waiting to make a joke of this, Mick. So you can either stop, give them the sound bite, do the dance. Or you can hold your head up and walk by, and the next time we’re in Boston, we’ll go out there and work the wall together. Don’t help them make a joke out of you.”

_The Postman_

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**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 16, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/477 "2012-10-16T14:36:07Z")

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“Your smile spreads like a butterfly.”

_Intolerance_ (1916)

[IMDB.com](http://IMDB.com) has several quotations.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/478 "2012-10-16T14:36:11Z")

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I tried to be an actor when I was young. I wasn’t a good actor, but now, after seeing you? At least I can die knowing I wasn’t the worst one.

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Space Cowboys\*\*\*

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/479 "2012-10-16T15:09:19Z")

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“I was just reciting the Shepard’s Prayer. Alan Shepard’s prayer. Oh Lord, please don’t let us screw up. Amen.”

_MASH_

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/480 "2012-10-16T17:21:16Z")

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Oh, Frank, my lips are hot. Kiss my hot lips.  
_Nashville_

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**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 16, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-free-association/631259/481 "2012-10-16T17:26:21Z")

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“The buses are empty and look almost menacing, threatening, as so many yellow dragons watching me with their hollow, vacant eyes.”

\*Almost Famous \*

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