# 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:** 380
**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:** [April 27, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7582 "2025-04-27T18:33:16Z")
At this very moment those pictures are on the way to Washington where the FBI has experts in this type of identification. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7583 "2025-04-28T16:28:26Z")
Does the FBI have a habit of cleaning up after multiple murders? -Yes. Why do you think it’s run by a man called Hoover? ---
**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:** [April 28, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7584 "2025-04-28T22:03:37Z")
Yes, well, as you’ve already said, Mr. Hoover, motion pictures are for the people. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7585 "2025-04-29T00:00:22Z")
Your pictures one after another are losing money. Theater owners voted you “box office poison”. Still for years I’ve paid no attention. You know me, Joan. I don’t give up so easily. We’ll pay you off on your contract. But you can’t afford to make three or four more losers for us. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7586 "2025-04-29T04:59:19Z")
Okay boys, let’s take some pictures! _They immediately take pictures off the wall._ ---
**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:** [April 29, 2025, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7587 "2025-04-29T11:54:31Z")
Another time, I met a guy - he was in the pictures. Went out to the Riverside Dance Palace with him. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7588 "2025-04-29T12:22:24Z")
It’ll be a cold day in hell when Harry Flugleman lets an actor tell him what to do! ---
**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:** [April 29, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7589 "2025-04-29T22:03:16Z")
Audiences don’t know somebody sits down and writes a picture; they think the actors make it up as they go along. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7590 "2025-04-30T13:20:30Z")
Such an audience needs something stronger than a pretty little love story. So why shouldn’t I write of monsters? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7591 "2025-04-30T14:01:18Z")
You’re off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters! ---
**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 1, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7592 "2025-05-01T13:42:01Z")
Man, you sure know a lot about monsters. ---
**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 1, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7593 "2025-05-01T16:27:23Z")
There’s something down here, it’s carnivorous. Whatever it is it appears to be… human. I’d say it’s a size 17, about 360 pounds, 8 and a half to 9 feet tall and he has a bad gimp in his right leg and, ah, 3 copper teeth. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7594 "2025-05-01T17:35:29Z")
He can’t stay down with three barrels. Not with three barrels, he can’t. ---
**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 1, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7595 "2025-05-01T19:35:25Z")
- Stay down. You’re beat. - - - You’re gonna hafta kill me… ---
**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:** [May 2, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7596 "2025-05-02T19:23:54Z")
I can do this all day. ---
**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 2, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7597 "2025-05-02T22:04:40Z")
I got nowhere else to go. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7598 "2025-05-02T23:57:57Z")
Where do you want me to go? ---
**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:** [May 3, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7599 "2025-05-03T00:37:35Z")
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are. ---
**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 3, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7600 "2025-05-03T16:04:09Z")
I don’t know what’s out there beyond those hills, but if you ride yonder, head up, eyes steady, heart open, I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for. ---
**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 3, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/7601 "2025-05-03T18:03:41Z")
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