# NEW! Speak to me in Movie quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 7, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614 "2020-07-07T13:50:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 244
**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4862 "2023-05-16T20:06:44Z")
Man, everyone’s gay once in a while. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4863 "2023-05-16T20:56:15Z")
For there’s no man in town half as manly Perfect, a pure paragon! ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4864 "2023-05-16T22:25:12Z")
It isn’t what you are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts. Idealism is a luxury for the very young. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4865 "2023-05-17T13:20:20Z")
When I grow up I will be tall enough to reach the branches That I need to reach to climb the trees You get to climb when you’re grown up ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4866 "2023-05-17T14:26:48Z")
If growing up means it would be Beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I won’t grow up! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4867 "2023-05-17T16:30:29Z")
We pruned the hedges of many small villages! ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4868 "2023-05-17T23:06:03Z")
There is no fence nor hedge around time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it, if you can remember. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4869 "2023-05-17T23:09:15Z")
Over the Hedge > **[Over the Hedge (2006)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327084/mediaviewer/rm752718336/?ref_=tt_ov_i)** > > Bruce Willis, Thomas Haden Church, Steve Carell, and Garry Shandling in Over the Hedge (2006) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4870 "2023-05-17T23:17:14Z")
We’re painting the roses red. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4871 "2023-05-17T23:20:04Z")
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H… Hookers! Hookers, hookers, hookers… ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4872 "2023-05-17T23:37:49Z")
Hiya, Hooker. You getting married or something? ---
**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4873 "2023-05-18T02:23:16Z")
Some men get the world. Others get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4874 "2023-05-18T15:22:37Z")
If not Arizona, then a land not too far away. Where all parents are strong and wise and capable and all children are happy and beloved. I don’t know. Maybe it was Utah. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4875 "2023-05-18T16:57:19Z")
We are not a sunshiny people. We’re not a paradise people or a beach people. We are dark people. People who believed it could be worse. And we’re waiting for it to become worse. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4876 "2023-05-18T18:13:28Z")
Life is good in Los Angeles. It’s paradise on Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4877 "2023-05-18T19:51:20Z")
Some of these buildings are over 20 years old. ---
**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4878 "2023-05-18T20:17:22Z")
Now, you know there’s no sure way for us to fight a fire in anything over the seventh floor, but you guys just keep building 'em as high as you can. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4879 "2023-05-18T20:47:54Z")
Have I failed to meet city building and safety codes? ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4880 "2023-05-19T11:53:12Z")
``` No wonder everyone calls you Failure Face. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/4881 "2023-05-19T15:51:15Z")
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