# NEW! Speak to me in Movie quotes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614>\
**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:** ![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:** [October 17, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7022 "2024-10-17T16:16:54Z")

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“Sharks!”  
“Jets!”

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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7023 "2024-10-17T19:44:57Z")

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I have _had_ it with these motherfucking ~~_snakes_~~ sharks on this motherfucking _plane_!

(with a little poetic license)

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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:** [October 17, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7024 "2024-10-17T19:49:31Z")

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It’s… a Sharknado!

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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:** [October 17, 2024, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7025 "2024-10-17T19:51:17Z")

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Cow…

I gotta go, Julia, we’ve got cows!

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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:** [October 18, 2024, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7026 "2024-10-18T13:05:01Z")

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There are women who reach a perfect time of life when the face will never again be as good, the body never as graceful, powerful. It had happened that year to Julia.

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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:** [October 18, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7027 "2024-10-18T15:28:12Z")

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I’m old! Oh, I’m like the Cryptkeeper!

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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:** [October 18, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7028 "2024-10-18T18:30:03Z")

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Hey baby, how’re you doin’? I bet you were really something before electricity.

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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:** [October 18, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7029 "2024-10-18T18:43:43Z")

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Norma, you’re a woman of 50, now grow up. There’s nothing tragic about being 50, not unless you try to be 25.

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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:** [October 20, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7030 "2024-10-20T20:08:48Z")

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Marilyn doesn’t exist. When I come out of my dressing room, I’m Norma Jeane. I’m still her when the camera is rolling. Marilyn Monroe only exists on the screen.

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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:** [October 21, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7031 "2024-10-21T15:42:05Z")

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Alright, Blanche Hudson! Miss big, fat movie star! Miss rotten, stinking actress! Press a button, ring a bell and you think the whole _damn_ world comes running, don’t you? Lunch, Miss Hudson? Why, certainly, Miss Hudson! I’m sure we can find something appropriate for you, Miss Hudson!

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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:** [October 21, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7032 "2024-10-21T16:21:11Z")

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[_muttering to herself, hacking down the rose garden_] Hollywood royalty! Parted friends… everyone already knows! Box office poison! Box office poison! Class! You’re… class… you’re… class… box office poison! Eighteen years in the business and we parted friends! Creative differences!

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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:** [October 21, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7033 "2024-10-21T18:59:59Z")

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But if that poison just stayed there, getting worse and worse, like poison always does - spreading, until even the blindest man could see, until he HAD to see…

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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:** [October 22, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7034 "2024-10-22T15:45:37Z")

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Listen to me, we’re going on a trip now, it’s going to be rough. If you hear something in the woods, you tell me. If you hear something in the water, you tell me. But under no circumstances are you allowed to take off your blindfold.

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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:** [October 22, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7035 "2024-10-22T20:43:43Z")

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Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me any more. At least I’m not the same me I was.

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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:** [October 22, 2024, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7036 "2024-10-22T22:53:59Z")

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My friends call me Murphy. You call me—RoboCop.

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7037 "2024-10-23T02:47:45Z")

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And don’t call me Shirley.

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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:** [October 23, 2024, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7038 "2024-10-23T17:59:37Z")

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He has a wife, you know? You know what she’s called? She’s called Incontinentia… Incontinentia Buttocks.

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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:** [October 23, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7039 "2024-10-23T18:24:09Z")

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Oh, a counter-offer. That’s what we lawyers - I’m a lawyer - we lawyers call that a counter-offer. This is a tough decision here. Get my ass kicked or collect two hundred dollars. Let me think… I could use a good ass-kickin’, I’ll be very honest with you… nah, I think I’ll just go with the two hundred.

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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:** [October 23, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7040 "2024-10-23T18:48:11Z")

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It’s just a negotiation tactic. Trust me, this is my specialty. Where yours is more stab, stab, stab.

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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:** [October 23, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7041 "2024-10-23T18:52:01Z")

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This guy is so full of angles and gimmicks and twists; he starts to describe a doughnut and it comes out a pretzel.

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