# movie quotes you use **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 20, 2000, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003 "2000-08-20T00:24:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/1 "2000-08-20T00:24:09Z")
What quotes from movies do you actually use when interacting with other humanoids?? I’m not talking about the greatest quotes from movies – “There’s no place like home,” “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damm”-- but ones that you can bring up when the need arises. Here are two of mine: “A man’s got to know his limitations” Clint, Magnum Force. and “I keep my friends close and my enemies closer.” Pacino in God Father II but I still speak those lines in a cheesy-Brando-Don Corleone accent simply because it seems to work better. Try it you’ll see what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/2 "2000-08-20T01:39:24Z")
I use this one from _Fight Club_ quite often - “We are a generation of men raised by women.” Then there’s this one from _Chasing Amy_ which I use when I’m talking to someone with a pissy attitude - “Well, who pissed in your cereal?” ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/3 "2000-08-20T02:14:00Z")
Vandal- I heard that quote from movie years ago, I think before Chasing Amy, and it went, ‘Sheesh, who pissed in your Cheerios this morning?’. Can’t remember the movie, but I use that one alot. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/4 "2000-08-20T02:21:45Z")
“You just keep thinking, Butch, that’s what you’re good at,” _Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid_ Perfect for when someone over-analyzes a situation. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/5 "2000-08-20T08:50:00Z")
Christ. Somebody already mentioned Fight Club. My SO is trying to find a way to communicate only in Fight Club quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Guinevere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@Guinevere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinevere)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/6 "2000-08-20T12:03:39Z")
“What if this is as good as it gets?” ``` -From movie "As Good as it Gets" ``` ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/7 "2000-08-20T13:08:24Z")
Look! Combination cooker and coffee maker, also makes Julien fries, will not break, will not – It _broke_ –Aladdin. I use it all the time… ---
**Author:** ![billyt123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@billyt123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billyt123)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/8 "2000-08-20T13:51:56Z")
You can’t do that. She’s …old. -Happy Gilmore Usually just the “shes old” part in the adam sandler voice ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/9 "2000-08-20T14:09:19Z")
“No reason…I just _like_ doing things like that.” -the Warriors “You know _nothing_ you little weasel!” -Modern Romance and, of course, the indispensible: “Yippee-Kai-Yay, mother-fucker.” -Die Hard ---
**Author:** ![Peta\_Tzunami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@Peta\_Tzunami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peta_Tzunami)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/10 "2000-08-20T15:09:51Z")
SO and I are always using movie quotes, but _ **Bull Durham** _ always plays a large role in our normal banter. Hmmmm…almost all Crash Davis, too! “What do you mean _William Blake_?” “Um, you know, knock, knock–come in?!” “Don’t you think that’s a little excessive for the Carolina league?” “_[Charlie, here comes the deuce]_…and when you speak of me, speak well.” “I don’t know where he’s going to throw it–swear to God.” “So is somebody gonna sleep with somebody or what?” From other movies of great fandom in our household: _ **A Hard Day’s Night** _ “He’s very clean.” “Afterall its his train, isn’t it?” “Mister, mister? Can we have our ball back?” “Down the eh…Oh, down the eh. Yeah, down the eh. Well, that’s alright then–give him a few minutes.” “I’ll bind him to me with promises.” “He’s consealed about me person.” “He’s a swine…isn’t he, George? (Yeah, swine.)” _ **Star Wars I: Phantom Menace** _ Done in _Jar-Jarese_ “Whoa, yousa guys bombad!” “Me no watchen!” “Hey wait!” (And allusions to Jedi mind tricks) Filmphile, Peta T. ---
**Author:** ![Peta\_Tzunami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@Peta\_Tzunami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peta_Tzunami)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/11 "2000-08-20T15:12:02Z")
“ **You’re a** swine…isn’t he, George?” (my bad) ---
**Author:** ![JBENZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@JBENZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBENZ)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/12 "2000-08-20T15:13:38Z")
For sheer all-purpose don’t-have-to-think-just-say-it-iveness: “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son.” “My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.” “The time has come for someone to put his foot down on those guys…and that foot is me.” And…for every time you and your graduate degree get stuck with some bullshit job: “Seven years of college down the drain.” ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/13 "2000-08-20T17:59:11Z")
“That’ll do, pig.” Sometimes spoken a la Farmer Hoggett, sometimes crooned a la Peter Gabriel. “I don’t laugh all day long like an idiot, if that’s what you mean.” Various words get substituted for laugh now and again. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/14 "2000-08-20T19:05:13Z")
Whenever someone says something like, “Surely you can’t be serious!” to you, always always ALWAYS respond with, “I **am** serious, and don’t call me Shirley.” Ya gotta love _Airplane_. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/15 "2000-08-20T19:24:06Z")
My sister and I can choose any random scene from A Hard Day’s Night or Help! and go back and forth, and not miss a line. Well, we used to. I don’t know if we can still do it, it’s been a while. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/16 "2000-08-20T19:57:17Z")
“Do I make you horny?” - Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery “Are you touching my ass?” - Night at the Roxbury “37!?” - Clerks ---
**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/17 "2000-08-20T20:17:34Z")
“where’s the commode in this dungeon? i gotta take a squirt.” ---
**Author:** ![magpie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magpie)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/18 "2000-08-20T20:48:11Z")
“oh i think my bunny slippers just ran for cover! c’mon, scare me, girl!” - from disney’s Mulan “disHONAH! cricket, make a note of this… dishonah on YOU, dishonah on ya COW…” - also from Mulan _grin_ can you tell i live in a house with kids? heh. magpie ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/19 "2000-08-20T23:15:40Z")
My brother and I can go on for hours reciting lines from most movies out in the last 20 years or so. It’s a little pathetic, and people look at us funny when we’re doing it in public. Even our mom thinks we’re a little wierd. But movie freaks gaze in awe. ---
**Author:** ![EnochF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/779978/32.png) [@EnochF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnochF)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003/20 "2000-08-20T23:31:41Z")
The entire script to _Clue_. Including whole exchanges between Colonel Mustard and Wadsworth sometimes. The ones I end up hearing in my conversations a lot are: Miss Scarlet: “Why is the car stopped?” Prof. Plum: “It’s frightened.” Col. Mustard: “Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?” Wadsworth: “You don’t need any help from me, sir.” Col. Mustard: “That’s right!” Wadsworth: “Well, to make a long story short—” Col. Mustard: “Too late.” Mr. Green: “Who would want to kill the cook?” Miss Scarlet: “Dinner wasn’t that bad.” Prof. Plum: “There’s no need to shout.” Wadsworth: “_I’m not shouting!_” [pause] “All right, I am. _I’m shouting! I’m shouting! I’m shou—_” [thump!] Cop: “This man is drunk. Dead drunk.” Miss Scarlet: “Dead right.” Mrs. White: “What do you mean, don’t deny it? I’m not denying anything.” Wadsworth: “Another denial!” Col. Mustard: “There’s still one thing I don’t understand.” Mrs. White: “One thing?” Wadsworth: “And monkey’s brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington, D.C.!” Mrs. White: “Yes, I did it. I killed Yvette. I hated her… _so_ much. It – it – the fee – flames – _flames_… on the side of my face, breathing – breathle – _heaving_ breaths, heaving…” (Also, being a complete dweeb, I can’t help but inject a few _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ lines into my daily patter…) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-you-use/30003.md?page=2)