# 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:** ![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, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8022 "2025-09-04T18:56:36Z")

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Clouds are like dreams floating across a sky-blue mind.

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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, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8023 "2025-09-04T20:26:32Z")

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_[holding an orange up to the horizon while feeling the effects of the LSD_] That’s the sun in my hands, man! Oh, it gives off an orange cloud of light that just flows right out over the sea! Wow!

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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, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8024 "2025-09-04T22:18:43Z")

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Listen, listen up… (slaps shoe on his head) That was my skull! I’m so wasted!

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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:** [September 5, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8025 "2025-09-05T00:25:17Z")

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I’ve taken the liberty of anticipating your condition. I have brought you orange juice, coffee, and aspirins. Or do you need to throw up?

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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 5, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8026 "2025-09-05T18:11:05Z")

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I’m staying. I’m finishing my coffee. Enjoying my coffee.

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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 5, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8027 "2025-09-05T20:38:34Z")

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I was sitting here eating my muffin, drinking my coffee, replaying the incident in my head, when I had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity.

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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 6, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8028 "2025-09-06T01:17:22Z")

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Put that coffee down! Coffee is for closers.

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8029 "2025-09-06T14:46:31Z")

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There’s only two things in this world that a real man needs - a cup of coffee and a good smoke.

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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:** [September 6, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8030 "2025-09-06T15:05:52Z")

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I don’t need anything! Except this. This ashtray. The only thing I need is this. I don’t need this, or this… just this ashtray. And this paddle game. The ashtray and the paddle game. And that’s all I need!

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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 6, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8031 "2025-09-06T15:21:44Z")

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We don’t need another hero.

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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 6, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8032 "2025-09-06T15:57:25Z")

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Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him. Because he can take it.

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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 6, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8033 "2025-09-06T19:14:15Z")

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_laughs hysterically_] “They”? Why, they is the plain and fancy they, that’s who “they” is! Caught you, didn’t they? Tied a tin can to your tail. Led you in and waltzed you out again. Oh my, what a bunch! Big tough ones, hunh? Here you are with a handful of holes, a thumb up your ass, and a big grin to pass the time of day with. They? Who the hell is “they?”

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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 8, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8034 "2025-09-08T13:17:20Z")

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Goodbye, Tin Man. Oh, don’t cry. You’ll rust so dreadfully.

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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 8, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8035 "2025-09-08T17:22:44Z")

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I’ll miss you the most, Scarecrow.

(From Kevin Costner, _For Love of the Game_)

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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 8, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8036 "2025-09-08T20:25:43Z")

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Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

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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 8, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8037 "2025-09-08T20:31:11Z")

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I’ll have what she’s having.

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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 8, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8038 "2025-09-08T23:39:07Z")

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[Go ahead, make my](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5UHNl5a1cc) day.

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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 9, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8039 "2025-09-09T03:46:00Z")

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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8040 "2025-09-09T11:16:10Z")

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No one is trying to kill you sweetheart. Now eat your dessert like a good boy.

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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 9, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8041 "2025-09-09T17:53:33Z")

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“Seize the moment, remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.”

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