# 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:** 415
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8282 "2025-12-17T23:43:04Z")
I’d like to thank the Academy and all the good people of Galesburg, Illinois, for making me who I am today. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8283 "2025-12-18T00:03:37Z")
I Am Legend ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8284 "2025-12-18T00:07:59Z")
You’re Hollywood Royalty ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8285 "2025-12-18T01:27:54Z")
I yam what I yam an’ that’s all what I yam. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8286 "2025-12-18T01:37:04Z")
I am Groot. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8287 "2025-12-18T16:49:35Z")
If you please, I am Dorothy – the small and meek. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mike\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_H)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8288 "2025-12-19T12:44:27Z")
Well, when we made love, whenever he - you know, when he came, he would just - scream out, “Surrender Dorothy!” That’s all! Just "Surrender Dorothy! ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8289 "2025-12-19T20:28:24Z")
- Now, do you wanna do it just like that with no feeling on my part? - Yaah. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8290 "2025-12-19T23:17:16Z")
- Well, thought I’d try out my sea legs. - But you ain’t got no legs, Lieutenant Dan. - Yes, I know that. You wrote me a letter, you idiot. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8291 "2025-12-19T23:27:54Z")
I’ll have your leg. Right. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8292 "2025-12-20T17:34:58Z")
And my axe! ---
**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:** [December 20, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8293 "2025-12-20T21:19:11Z")
I never wanted to be a lumberjack anyway. I always wanted to do something different with my life. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8294 "2025-12-21T15:21:42Z")
I already have a job - Lumberjack. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8295 "2025-12-21T16:52:52Z")
We’re gonna be getting rid of these people here… First, Mr. Samir Naga… Naga… Naga… Not gonna work here anymore, anyway. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8296 "2025-12-23T17:20:46Z")
I never should’ve put that dummy Jetson in charge of an operation this important. When I get home, I’ll get a new vice president. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8297 "2025-12-23T21:41:52Z")
33 different vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year… I still can’t figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8298 "2025-12-23T22:15:58Z")
Waring Hudsucker is abstract art on Madison Avenue. What we need now is a new president who will inspire panic in the stockholder. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8299 "2025-12-24T16:12:32Z")
People don’t buy stock; it gets sold to them. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8300 "2025-12-24T17:37:16Z")
People don’t drink the sand because they’re thirsty. People drink the sand because they don’t know the difference. (From _The American President_, dir. by Rob Reiner. Lotsa great quotes from that film.) ---
**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:** [December 25, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/8301 "2025-12-25T17:50:50Z")
I belong on a beach. A nice, quiet beach. I wanna hear the water. That’s it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614.md?page=414) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614.md?page=416)