# Movies where actors quote themselves from other movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286 "2008-01-04T17:24:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/21 "2008-01-04T18:50:26Z")
Ah-nald Shwarzenegger has said, “I’ll be back” (Terminator series), in at least one comedy movie he did. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/22 "2008-01-04T18:50:36Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] It’s not really the same quote, since someone else says it, but Barbara Streisand saying “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” to Ryan O’Neal 9who said it in **Love Story** at the end of **What’s Up Doc** [/QUOTE] To which Ryan O’Neal then says “That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard!” Not a callback to any previous character of his, but it makes me giggle. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/23 "2008-01-04T18:54:16Z")
Mel Brooks has gone to the “It’s good to be the King” well a couple of times. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/24 "2008-01-04T19:04:02Z")
**Tim Allen** As Buzz Lightyear in _Toy Story_ spoken to Woody and as Robotic Santa in _The Santa Clause 2_ spoken to Santa Clause: “You are a sad, strange little man.” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/25 "2008-01-04T19:21:29Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] **Tim Allen** As Buzz Lightyear in _Toy Story_ spoken to Woody and as Robotic Santa in _The Santa Clause 2_ spoken to Santa Clause: “You are a sad, strange little man.” [/QUOTE] Excellent example! And in **The Santa Clause** , he does his apelike “Hoo hoo hoo” that he did on his TV show. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/26 "2008-01-04T19:36:51Z")
I watched \*Stardust \*last night, and at one point the character played by Ricky Gervais asks, “Is he having a laugh?” That’s the “catchphrase” used by Gervais’s character on the HBO show \*Extras \*. ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/27 "2008-01-04T19:44:11Z")
[QUOTE=Philster] Ah-nald Shwarzenegger has said, “I’ll be back” (Terminator series), in at least one comedy movie he did. [/QUOTE] Good example. I think it was _Last Action Hero_ ---
**Author:** ![Mockingthrush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea5d25/32.png) [@Mockingthrush](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingthrush)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/28 "2008-01-04T19:59:45Z")
Johnny Depp in **Once Upon a Time in Mexico** says “Savvy?” in an obvious Sparrow-nod. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/29 "2008-01-04T20:15:34Z")
Get your hands off me, you damn dirty {ape|human} ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/30 "2008-01-04T21:41:59Z")
In the move **Stakeout** , Emilio Estevez quizzes Richard Dryfus’ character: ''What movie was this from?"…‘This was not a boating accident’…", as he was doing movie quote trivia to kill time while on the stakeout. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/31 "2008-01-04T21:47:02Z")
[QUOTE=Engineer Dude] Good example. I think it was _Last Action Hero_ [/QUOTE] Didn’t he say “I’ll be back” in virtually every movie he made for quite a while after _Terminator_, which is the joke in _Last Action Hero_ “You didn’t know I’d say that, did you?” “You always say that.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/32 "2008-01-04T22:11:36Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] John Lithgow repeating his rock and roll speech from Footloose in an episode of 3rd Rock From The Sun. [/QUOTE] Related, when William Shatner first appeared on _Third Rock_, playing the human form of the team’s oft-mentioned leader, The Big Giant Head, he describes having been a passenger on a human aircraft and having seen a creature on the wing. Lithgow immediately says “The same thing happened to me!” This is in reference to Shatner having starred in the original _Twilight Zone_ episode “Terror at 20,000 Feet” and Lithgow in the remade version for 1983’s _Twilight Zone: The Movie_. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/33 "2008-01-04T22:36:29Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] It’s not really the same quote, since someone else says it, but Barbara Streisand saying “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” to Ryan O’Neal 9who said it in **Love Story** at the end of **What’s Up Doc** [/QUOTE] I probably am wrong but I seem to remember that line resurfacing in **Malibu’s Most Wanted** or something like it and O’Neal reacting. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/34 "2008-01-04T22:38:56Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Related, when William Shatner first appeared on _Third Rock_, playing the human form of the team’s oft-mentioned leader, The Big Giant Head, he describes having been a passenger on a human aircraft and having seen a creature on the wing. Lithgow immediately says “The same thing happened to me!” This is in reference to Shatner having starred in the original _Twilight Zone_ episode “Terror at 20,000 Feet” and Lithgow in the remade version for 1983’s _Twilight Zone: The Movie_. [/QUOTE] I remember seeing that episode and laughing out loud at that. Then I had to explain it to everyone else in the room since they all got whoooshed by it. ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/35 "2008-01-04T22:46:16Z")
How about one actor insulting another? I think Stallone once said “Rambo was a wimp.” It was either Stallone talking in a Stallone movie, or Van Damme in a Van Damme movie. Maybe some SD movie wiz can help me recall! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/36 "2008-01-04T23:05:46Z")
[QUOTE=Eureka] Teri Hatcher had a cameo ( I think) in a Bond movie (Tomorrow Never Dies? Maybe?) during her tenure as Lois on Lois & Clark. I forget her exact words, but she said something to Bond which was very reminiscent of the type of things she said to Clark, about his more or less unexplained absence. [/QUOTE] Two guys, right, they walked into… maybe it was three guys. Anyway, they walked into this bar. Or a club. Okay. And then the bartender said something. And it was really funny! Ah, it made me laugh! Or was it a priest and a scotsman? ---
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[QUOTE=Robot Arm] In _Blazing Saddles_, Jim (Gene Wilder) tells how he gave up gunfighting… [/QUOTE] Doesn’t Gene Wilder also often say “Scratch that. Reverse it.” in his films? ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/38 "2008-01-05T00:18:36Z")
[QUOTE=Jinx] How about one actor insulting another? I think Stallone once said “Rambo was a wimp.” [/QUOTE] **Tango & Cash** (1989). The actual line goes, “Rambo is a pussy!” ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-actors-quote-themselves-from-other-movies/432286/39 "2008-01-05T01:51:38Z")
[QUOTE=Philster] In the move **Stakeout** , Emilio Estevez quizzes Richard Dryfus’ character: ''What movie was this from?“…‘This was not a boating accident’…”, as he was doing movie quote trivia to kill time while on the stakeout. [/QUOTE] I cannot _believe_ someone beat me to this, it’s what I came in here to post! Grrrr… 😉 ---
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