# Movie Quotes Galore

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-galore/89594>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 25, 2001, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-galore/89594 "2001-10-25T17:50:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![MJH2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@MJH2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJH2)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-galore/89594/41 "2001-10-31T15:11:15Z")

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“What do make of this, Johnny?”  
“I can make a hat, or brooch or a – teradactyl!”

“The fog is getting thicker.”  
“And Leon is getting la-a-a-rger!”

“Pardon me, miss, I speak jive.”

“Jim never vomits at home.”

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“Give him a _seda_give?”

“Whose brain did you get?”  
“Abby-somebody.”

“Pardon me, boy, is this the Transylvania Station?”  
“Ja, ja. Track Tventy-nine!”

“Tafetta, darling.”  
“‘Tafetta’, sweetheart…”

“Vould you like a roll in zee hay?”

“Werewolf.”  
“There wolf.”  
“What?”  
“There, wolf. There, castle.”  
“Why are you talking like that?”  
“I thought you wanted to.”

“Now, listen to me verrrry carefully: _don’t_ put the candle back.”

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“Gas!”  
“I can’t help it, I’m old.”

“Where’s my Dickie – I mean, my husband?”

“He used to take me to the circus. We stopped going when I was twenty-six.”  
“Twenty-six? What the hell kind of circus was it?”

“Cocoa, n’est-ce pas?”  
“No, Hershey’s.”

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**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-galore/89594/42 "2001-10-31T16:51:53Z")

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“What’s my name? I drove here in a $60,000 Mercedes. You drove here in a Hyundai. THAT’S my name.”

“I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star!”

“…if there’s one thing that history has taught us, it’s that you can kill anyone.”

The young Boris Grushenko querying the grim reaper about hell: “Let me just ask one key question: are there girls?”

“Don’t you know that the original King Kong was only three feet tall? If God could do the things we do, he’d be a happy man!”

“I tried, goddammit. At least I did that.”

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**Author:** ![ScriptAnalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@ScriptAnalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScriptAnalyst)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-galore/89594/43 "2001-11-01T23:26:54Z")

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“When you side with a man, you stay with him, and if you can’t do that, you’re like some kind of animal – you’re finished, we’re finished – all of us. Now…mount up.”  
– THE WILD BUNCH

Steve Biodrowski  
[http://www.thescriptanalyst.com](http://www.thescriptanalyst.com)

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**Author:** ![Frank\_O.Pinion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/839c29/32.png) [@Frank\_O.Pinion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_O.Pinion)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-galore/89594/44 "2001-11-02T02:52:20Z")

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Relax Doc, all we need is a little plutonium!

I’m sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore! But here in 1955, it’s a little hard to come by!!!

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Where’s your First Lady, Mr. President?

My first lady? How the hell should I know? I lost my flower at the tender age of 15!  
Cookie?  
No thank you, sir.  
Young lady?  
No, sir.  
What? Oh, no, I was offering him a young lady.

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Are you the floorwalker here?  
Yes.  
Well I’d like to register a complaint. Do you know who snuck into my room at 3:00 this morning?  
Who did that?  
Nobody. And that’s my complaint.

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**Author:** ![zoony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e99b99/32.png) [@zoony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoony)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-galore/89594/45 "2001-11-02T03:50:31Z")

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"I don’t want to be part of your _big **push!** _

“And, there’s the war - which brings out the worst in people. Never the good, always the bad, _always_ the bad.”

“Are you Sherlock Holmes?”  
“Well, that depends. Do you have a relative who was recently sent to prison?”

“Everybody liked me. I liked myself. And then _he_ came…”

“Screw you honey! Boy, if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a queen without a sense of humor. You can die with your secret! Miserable piss-elegant fairy.”

“Oswald was a fag.”

“Life is pain, princess. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: No more fucking ABBA.”  
z

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-galore/89594/46 "2001-11-02T04:07:12Z")

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“Mongo only pawn in game of life.”

“Gopher?”

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**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-galore/89594/47 "2001-11-02T05:46:26Z")

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We can’t stop here! This is bat country!

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**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-galore/89594/48 "2001-11-02T06:34:58Z")

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“If you dare speak to an officer like that again, I shall scream the house down!”

“What are you rebelling against?” “Whaddya got?”

“Laugh while you can, monkey-boy!”

“Most of them died instantly, but a few had time to go quietly nuts.”

“Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man.”

“What is this, Wonka, some kind of fun house?” “Why, having fun?”

“He was an alright bloke, our officer. Some would call him weedy. I did.”

“The British Army has always fought the wily Pathan!”

**"Disposing of pre-atomic submarines to persons who don’t even leave their full addresses? Good day, Admiral!"**

“Mrs. Hogwallop done R-U-N-N-O-F-T.”

“Well I don’t want Fop, godammit! I’m a Dapper Dan man!”

“You can’t shoot me! I have a very low threshold of death. My doctor says I can’t have bullets enter my body at any time.”

“I hadn’t seen a body put together like that since I solved the case of the Murdered Girl with the Big Tits.”

“A fella, a QUICK fella, might have a weapon under there. I’d have to pin his head to the panel…”

“I know you, you English persons! Take off hat to woman, give name to dog!”

“Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!”

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**Author:** ![DireStraits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/74df32/32.png) [@DireStraits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DireStraits)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-galore/89594/49 "2001-11-02T19:04:56Z")

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Despite the fact that it was contained in the narration (and ending) that arguably hurt the film as a whole  
“We didn’t know how much time we had.[PAUSE] Who does.”  
(paraphrased- been awhile since I’ve watched)

struck a nerve for me as a teen. Ever since then, too.

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**Author:** ![MJH2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@MJH2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJH2)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-galore/89594/50 "2001-11-02T19:45:26Z")

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“…And then he [the President] kissed me.”  
“Where?”  
“On the lips.”  
“No – I mean, _where_ in the White House?”  
“In the dishroom.”  
“Then what happened?”  
“He had to go and attack Libya.”  
“Oh, well, it’s always _something_.”  
“Tibby, you’re being remarkably obtuse. Are you doing it on purpose?”  
“Are you _trying_ to be rude, or merely stupid?”

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