# 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:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/81 "2017-02-17T16:03:46Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> “Fish are friends, not food.”

**Finding Nemo**

“Hey, I got a social disease!”

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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:** [February 17, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/82 "2017-02-17T16:11:21Z")

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> [@Gyrate](#):
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> “Hey, I got a social disease!”

_West Side Story_

“Because I am mad, I am rejoicing in my heart without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart!”

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/83 "2017-02-17T16:44:14Z")

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**Gaslight.**

“No! There is no other hand!”

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/84 "2017-02-17T16:49:29Z")

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**Fiddler on the Roof**

“It’s all right, that’s in every contract. That’s what they call a ‘sanity clause’.”

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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:** [February 17, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/85 "2017-02-17T17:02:37Z")

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**A Night At The Opera**  
“So, that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the floor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper.”

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**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/86 "2017-02-17T17:04:00Z")

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**Fargo**

“Multi-pass!”

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/87 "2017-02-17T17:06:39Z")

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**The Fifth Element**

“What family doesn’t have its ups and downs?”

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/88 "2017-02-17T17:12:50Z")

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**A Lion in Winter**

“I’m just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It’s just… I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade.”

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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:** [February 17, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/89 "2017-02-17T17:26:40Z")

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**The Addams Family**  
“What we have here is a failure to communicate.”

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/90 "2017-02-17T17:28:25Z")

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**Cool Hand Luke**

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

ETA: the previous quote was actually from **Addams Family Values**.

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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:** [February 17, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/91 "2017-02-17T18:15:41Z")

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> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

_The Maltese Falcon_

“There are going to be fewer but better Russians.”

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/92 "2017-02-17T20:38:33Z")

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**Ninotchka**

“I could have done more.”

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**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/93 "2017-02-17T20:48:54Z")

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**Schindler’s List**

“You should’a let me out of the car when I asked you to, Bob. You see what happens when ya got bad manners?”

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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:** [February 18, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/94 "2017-02-18T01:12:12Z")

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**Freeway**

“Fortune and glory, kid; fortune and glory.”

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**Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/95 "2017-02-18T01:23:14Z")

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Freeway

“You can’t handle the truth.”

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**Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/96 "2017-02-18T01:25:47Z")

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> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#):
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> “Fortune and glory, kid; fortune and glory.”

_Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom_  
ETA: “You can’t handle the truth” is from _A Few Good Men_.  
In play:  
“Come, it is time to give the Machine-Man your face.”

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**Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/97 "2017-02-18T02:12:38Z")

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**Metropolis**

“You talkin’ to me?”

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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:** [February 18, 2017, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/98 "2017-02-18T02:22:21Z")

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Taxi Driver.

“Ease his Pain”

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**Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/99 "2017-02-18T03:19:42Z")

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“You can’t handle the truth”

"Life is a box of chocolate "  
“I could had been a contender”

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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-movie-quote-that-gives-away-the-film-w-o-saying-the-title/779978/100 "2017-02-18T03:26:35Z")

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> [@purplehearingaid](#):
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> “You can’t handle the truth”
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> "Life is a box of chocolate "
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> “I could had been a contender”

**A Few Good Men, Forrest Gump, On the Waterfront**

> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#):
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> “Ease his Pain”

**Field of Dreams**

“Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.”

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