# 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:** ![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 17, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5542 "2023-09-17T16:56:29Z")

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It’s all in the wrists.

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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 17, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5543 "2023-09-17T19:50:47Z")

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My father didn’t build any condos with his bare hands.

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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 18, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5544 "2023-09-18T17:54:39Z")

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Architecturally, it’s a perfect house.

Thank you.

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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 18, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5545 "2023-09-18T20:49:53Z")

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Once upon a time, on the north shore of Long Island, not far from New York, there was a very very large mansion, almost a castle, where there lived a family by the name of Larrabee.

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**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:** [September 18, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5546 "2023-09-18T22:05:58Z")

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House Of Dark Shadows

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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 19, 2023, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5547 "2023-09-19T00:30:11Z")

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I know, I know! This horrid little house is your dream castle.

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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 19, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5548 "2023-09-19T15:30:46Z")

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Um, Alex was just telling me about the lake house. Yeah, it sounds really great.

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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 19, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5549 "2023-09-19T20:14:49Z")

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Goodbye, house! I’ll never like Mommy as much for making us move!

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**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:** [September 19, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5550 "2023-09-19T21:42:24Z")

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There’s no place like home.

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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 20, 2023, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5551 "2023-09-20T00:50:33Z")

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Blanche, you aren’t ever gonna sell this house… and you aren’t ever gonna leave it… either.

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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 20, 2023, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5552 "2023-09-20T17:26:14Z")

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But you _are_, Blanche! You _are_ in that chair!

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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 20, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5553 "2023-09-20T19:00:35Z")

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There’s Henry Drucker. He has a chair in history at Princeton. Oh, and the short man is Hershel Kaminsky. He has a chair in philosophy at Cornell.

Yeah? Two more chairs they got a dining room set.

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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 20, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5554 "2023-09-20T19:31:29Z")

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You look like… me!

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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 20, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5555 "2023-09-20T19:46:41Z")

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From the way your dad spoke to me, he made me feel like a part of the family, almost like a son-in-law.

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**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:** [September 20, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5556 "2023-09-20T20:29:21Z")

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Get outta my chair, Meathead!

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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 20, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5557 "2023-09-20T22:30:20Z")

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Pretty sure that’s a TV quote. 😁 I make that mistake all the time.

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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 20, 2023, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5558 "2023-09-20T22:34:05Z")

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Do you have any regrets?

[Garfield, maybe.](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=zombieland+do+you+have+any+regrests#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e10ce98c,vid:AR15eSdMg4k,st:0)

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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 21, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5559 "2023-09-21T19:46:07Z")

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I’m saying you’ve already done plenty of things to regret, you just don’t know what they are. It’s when you discover them, when you see the folly in something you’ve done, and you wish that you had it do over, but you know you can’t, because it’s too late.

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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 21, 2023, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5560 "2023-09-21T20:18:45Z")

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Frodo: I wish none of this had happened.  
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

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**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:** [September 22, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/5561 "2023-09-22T16:31:11Z")

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I shoulda toined left at Albuquerque.

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