# Post a Movie Quote That Gives Away the Film w/o Saying the Title

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**Created:** [February 16, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978 "2017-02-16T15:07:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/441 "2017-03-16T04:42:26Z")

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**The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms**

Incoming articles get a voucher, outgoing articles provide a voucher. Move any article without a voucher, and they dock you.

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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:** [March 16, 2017, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/442 "2017-03-16T06:52:51Z")

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**The Hudsucker Proxy**. Funny, underrated film.

“Tell me, my friend… you ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?”

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**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/443 "2017-03-16T07:23:25Z")

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> [@ekedolphin](#):
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> **The Hudsucker Proxy**. Funny, underrated film.
> 
> “Tell me, my friend… you ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?”

batman jack as joker

```
: I don't think that men are the answer to everything.
: No.
: Then why do we always end up talking about them?

```

mc

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/444 "2017-03-16T08:46:40Z")

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> [@mikecurtis](#):
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> ```
> : I don't think that men are the answer to everything.
> : No.
> : Then why do we always end up talking about them?
> 
> ```

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The Witches of Eastwick\*

Aunt Lotte (_for the third time_): I am de vinner.

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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/445 "2017-03-16T13:33:07Z")

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> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> - 
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> The Witches of Eastwick\*
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> Aunt Lotte (_for the third time_): I am de vinner.

**Stranger Than Paradise**.

You want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like “honor,” “code,” “duty.” We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline.

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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:** [March 16, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/446 "2017-03-16T13:47:46Z")

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**A Few Good Men**  
" I feel I was denied critical need-to-know information. "

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/447 "2017-03-16T16:20:19Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> **A Few Good Men**  
> " I feel I was denied critical need-to-know information. "

**Tremors 2**

Albania’s hard to rythme.

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**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/448 "2017-03-16T16:36:28Z")

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**Wag the Dog**

“Because I’m tired of the world and the world is evidently tired of me.”

“But why? Why?”

“Why, why, why! Because it’s all logic and reason now. Science, progress, laws of hydraulics, laws of social dynamics, laws of this, that, and the other. No place for three-legged cyclops in the South Seas. No place for cucumber trees and oceans of wine. No place for me.”

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/449 "2017-03-16T17:01:21Z")

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> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#):
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> “Because I’m tired of the world and the world is evidently tired of me.”
> 
> “But why? Why?”
> 
> “Why, why, why! Because it’s all logic and reason now. Science, progress, laws of hydraulics, laws of social dynamics, laws of this, that, and the other. No place for three-legged cyclops in the South Seas. No place for cucumber trees and oceans of wine. No place for me.”

_Adventures of Baron Munchausen_

“You ever heard of a band called utensil?”

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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:** [March 17, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/450 "2017-03-17T02:04:06Z")

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**Night on Earth**.

“Don’t tell me. You’re from outer space.”

“No, I’m from Iowa. I just _work_ in outer space.”

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**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/451 "2017-03-17T02:08:12Z")

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**Star Trek: The Voyage Home**

“Well, fortunately it’s just a game. I don’t think we need to worry too much. Eisenhower would never risk such a gambit. Never!”

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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:** [March 17, 2017, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/452 "2017-03-17T05:38:09Z")

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**The Longest Day**.

“He’s so fluffy I’m gonna die!”

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**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/453 "2017-03-17T06:02:13Z")

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> [@ekedolphin](#):
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> **The Longest Day**.
> 
> “He’s so fluffy I’m gonna die!”

despicable me

'ahhhh! kelly clarkson!"

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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:** [March 17, 2017, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/454 "2017-03-17T07:37:46Z")

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**The 40-Year-Old Virgin**.

“Ice cream. I’d like some ice cream, please.”

“You would? What flavor?”

“It doesn’t matter. It’s for my ass.”

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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/455 "2017-03-17T13:48:58Z")

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> [@ekedolphin](#):
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> “It doesn’t matter. It’s for my ass.”

**Evolution**

“And remember: this gun is pointed right at your heart.”

“That is my least vulnerable spot.”

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/456 "2017-03-17T14:03:39Z")

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**Casablanca**

“I can’t hear you, you’re trailing off, and did I catch a ‘niner’ in there? Were you calling from a walkie-talkie?”

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**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/457 "2017-03-17T14:54:25Z")

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**Tommy Boy**

“On the Seventh Day the Lord rested, but befores that he did, he took a squat over the side of England and what came out of him… was Ireland.”

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**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/458 "2017-03-17T17:55:20Z")

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**Gangs of New York**

We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers.

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/459 "2017-03-17T18:01:56Z")

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**Trainspotting**

My name is Frank James. I came here to turn myself in. Here’s my gun. I want something in return. I want to be able to bury my brother.

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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:** [March 17, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/460 "2017-03-17T20:38:35Z")

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**The Long Riders**  
“I wish, I wish, I wish I were a fish.”

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