# NEW! Speak to me in Movie quotes

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**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\
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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5442 "2023-09-02T01:19:56Z")

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I know you are, but what am I?

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**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:** [September 2, 2023, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5443 "2023-09-02T01:23:04Z")

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You’re Hollywood royalty!

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**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:** [September 2, 2023, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5444 "2023-09-02T22:38:07Z")

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There ain’t no dust in Hollywood, man.

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**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:** [September 3, 2023, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5445 "2023-09-03T01:04:44Z")

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Look. They drummed you right outta Hollywood! So ya come crawlin’ back to Broadway. Well, Broadway doesn’t go for booze and dope. Now you get outta my way, I got a man waitin’ for me.

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**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:** [September 3, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5446 "2023-09-03T01:19:30Z")

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It’s Lieutenant Hurwitz. Severe shell-shock. Thinks he’s Ethel Merman.

🎶 You’ll be swell, you’ll be great. Gonna have the whole world on a plate. Startin’ here, startin’ now. Honey, everything’s comin’ up roses… 🎵

War is hell.

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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:** [September 3, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5447 "2023-09-03T02:03:31Z")

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🎵 Wow! There’ll be spectacle, there’ll be mystery, there’ll be derring-do and stuff like you have never seen!

Hey, a movie!

Yeah, it’s gonna be a movie! Starring everybody!

And me! 🎵

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2023, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5448 "2023-09-03T02:52:23Z")

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It’s not the same on film is it? I mean, you know it’s real, but it’s like looking through the lens gives you some sort of protection from what’s on the other side.

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**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:** [September 3, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5449 "2023-09-03T14:19:17Z")

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I’ve seen detergents leave a better film than this.

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**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:** [September 3, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5450 "2023-09-03T18:16:57Z")

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You think you can make a ton of cash cleaning up after dead people?

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**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:** [September 3, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5451 "2023-09-03T21:27:11Z")

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I love dead. Hate living.

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**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:** [September 4, 2023, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5452 "2023-09-04T00:06:32Z")

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We belong dead.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5453 "2023-09-04T03:00:35Z")

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Wormer, he’s a dead man; Marmalard, dead; Neidermeyer…

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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:** [September 4, 2023, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5454 "2023-09-04T03:15:32Z")

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Bueller? Bueller?

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**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:** [September 4, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5455 "2023-09-04T15:07:14Z")

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Everybody’s grounded!

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**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:** [September 4, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5456 "2023-09-04T17:04:10Z")

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Norma : We just came from there.  
Kenneth : Is everyone there dead?  
Steve : Or dead-ish.

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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:** [September 4, 2023, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5457 "2023-09-04T18:37:28Z")

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“Turns out that your friend here is only mostly dead. There’s a difference between mostly dead and all dead. (Please, open his mouth.) Mostly dead is slightly alive. All dead; well, with all dead, there’s really only one thing you can do.”

“What’s that?”

“Go through his clothes and look for loose change.”

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**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:** [September 4, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5458 "2023-09-04T21:40:37Z")

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CART MASTER: 'Ere. He says he’s not dead!

CUSTOMER: Yes, he is.

DEAD PERSON: I’m not!

CART MASTER: He isn’t?

CUSTOMER: Well, he will be soon. He’s very ill.

DEAD PERSON: I’m getting better!

CUSTOMER: No, you’re not. You’ll be stone dead in a moment.

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**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:** [September 4, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5459 "2023-09-04T22:09:24Z")

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I am Death. Vengeance is mine! God’s fury rains down on you!

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**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:** [September 4, 2023, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5460 "2023-09-04T23:30:56Z")

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No. If a god of love and light ever did exist, he is long since dead. Someone, something rules in his place.

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**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:** [September 5, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5461 "2023-09-05T02:00:49Z")

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I’m averting my eyes, O Lord.

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