# 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:** ![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:** [October 20, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8142 "2025-10-20T16:03:20Z")

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I say, I have murdered a man, and I want to confess!

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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 20, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8143 "2025-10-20T16:14:30Z")

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You expect me to talk when all I could preserve is my own measly, worthless life? TOO BLOODY RIGHT, I’LL TALK. I’ll talk, I’ll talk, just try and stop me.

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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 20, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8144 "2025-10-20T21:19:59Z")

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Shut up! Shut up, you American. You always talk, you Americans. You talk and you talk and say ‘let me tell you something’ and ‘I just wanna say this’. Well, you’re dead now, so shut up!

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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 20, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8145 "2025-10-20T21:31:09Z")

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When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.

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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 20, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8146 "2025-10-20T23:45:05Z")

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I shoot better when I move.

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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:** [October 21, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8147 "2025-10-21T02:25:14Z")

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Wipe yourself off, man. You’re 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:** [October 21, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8148 "2025-10-21T14:52:46Z")

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I’m not dead!

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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, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8149 "2025-10-21T20:05:08Z")

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I didn’t just survive a wreck. I wasn’t just blown up yesterday. I have been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted, and burned.

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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 21, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8150 "2025-10-21T20:11:15Z")

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That’s right. I’ve killed women and children. I’ve killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another.

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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:** [October 21, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8151 "2025-10-21T20:43:06Z")

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It’s possible. I kill a lot of people.

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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, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8152 "2025-10-21T20:46:58Z")

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Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

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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, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8153 "2025-10-21T23:20:23Z")

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Tell me, Jack Sparrow. Do ya fear death?

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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, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8154 "2025-10-22T18:49:01Z")

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Sparrows must harden themselves against the weak and sentimental.

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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, 2025, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8155 "2025-10-22T18:57:04Z")

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What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

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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, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8156 "2025-10-23T13:55:16Z")

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The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier.

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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, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8157 "2025-10-23T18:25:20Z")

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[Columbia Aircraft Co.](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0212586/?ref_=ttqu_qu): Look, Mr. Lindbergh, I don’t mean to belittle you, but, after all, New York to Paris isn’t like dropping off a mail bag in Keokuk, Iowa.

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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 24, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8158 "2025-10-24T13:51:38Z")

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You can rob Fort Knox and live, but steal a dime and kill a post office man, and they’ll spend a million and a lifetime lookin’ for you.

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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 24, 2025, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8159 "2025-10-24T17:03:36Z")

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It takes one postman to make someone else a postman.

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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 24, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8160 "2025-10-24T19:48:20Z")

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Because the mail never stops. It keeps coming, and coming, and coming, it never lets up. It’s relentless! And every day it piles up! More, and more, and more, and then you gotta get it out, but it keeps coming in, and then the barcode reader breaks–and then Publisher’s Clearing House–

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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 25, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8161 "2025-10-25T19:52:11Z")

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Why don’t ya get a couple of trucks up here, big ones, right away! Load 'em with all that Santa Claus mail and deliver 'em to Mr. Kringle down at the Courthouse!

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