# Quote Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 3, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500 "2003-01-03T21:43:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/61 "2003-01-04T20:19:11Z")

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“I can do anything I want. And so can you.”

- Frank, _Donnie Darko_

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**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/62 "2003-01-04T20:36:22Z")

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“You thought you could have everything.” ~Louis, Interview with the Vampire

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**Author:** ![Realhoops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@Realhoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Realhoops)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/63 "2003-01-06T02:41:09Z")

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“ **I always gagged on the silver spoon.** ”  
–Kane, Citizen Kane

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/64 "2003-01-06T04:44:27Z")

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“There is no spoon.” _Gah! I can’t believe I typed that!!_

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**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/65 "2003-01-06T07:18:44Z")

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“You only stick around here to fuck my mother and eat her food! Motherfucker! Food-eater!”  
Matt, [_River’s Edge_](http://us.imdb.com/Quotes?0091860)

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/66 "2003-01-06T11:26:36Z")

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“You’re going to become a bitch just like your mother!”

- Lester Burnham, _American Beauty_

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**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/67 "2003-01-06T13:26:55Z")

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“Or does your mother earn a living on her back?” Midshipman Simpson, _Horatio Hornblower_

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**Author:** ![Realhoops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@Realhoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Realhoops)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/68 "2003-01-06T15:52:40Z")

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" **It’s not the doin’ shit that gets to you. It’s the consequences. Imagine a life without consequences.**  
–Courage Under Fire (I forget who)

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/69 "2003-01-06T16:01:35Z")

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“Don’t talk to me about consequences! When Congress voted to cut airport appropriations, you never even sent in a letter of protest. And where were you when the airlines and the pilots and the rest of us were…were pleading for…for more airports and better traffic control? You were picking out the colors in the ladies’ lounge. So now you’ve got your consequences!”

- Mel Bakersfeld, _Airport_

(It was Ilario, BTW, Hoops.)

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**Author:** ![Realhoops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@Realhoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Realhoops)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/70 "2003-01-06T17:45:37Z")

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“ **I should have never gotten on that plane. I should have never gotten out of the car.** ”  
–CastAway (Tom Hanks)

… and thanks for the reference for Ilario (I was too lazy to look it up)

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**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/71 "2003-01-06T19:10:21Z")

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**If that plane leaves the ground and you’re not with him, you’ll regret it.** _Casablanca_ (Humphey Bogart)

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**Author:** ![Realhoops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@Realhoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Realhoops)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/72 "2003-01-06T19:23:45Z")

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“ **Real loss is only possible when you love something more than itself.** ”  
–Sean, Good Will Hunting

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**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/73 "2003-01-06T20:48:32Z")

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The Price is Wrong, bitch.

-Happy GIlmore

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**Author:** ![Realhoops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@Realhoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Realhoops)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/74 "2003-01-06T20:56:33Z")

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\<\<whoosh\>\> I know the connections are sometimes tenuous at best, but I don’t get how you get from the Good Will Hunting quote to the Happy Gilmore one… is it just me? Or can you 'splain it to me so my dense grey matter gets it? Thanks if you can…

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**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/75 "2003-01-06T21:36:57Z")

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I didn’t get it either; (to be fair, I haven’t gotten a couple others, either, but still). Maybe **Curious Canuck** thought it was just a quote whatever game, or wanted to be nifty and engimatic. Or maybe it was a simult-woosh.

Uh…

**Game on?** Mike Myers, _Wayne’s World_

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**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/76 "2003-01-06T21:51:37Z")

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**Thank you for playing, "Should we or should we not follow the advice of the galactically stupid."**

A Few Good Men

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**Author:** ![zoony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e99b99/32.png) [@zoony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoony)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/77 "2003-01-06T22:03:51Z")

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**Don’t call me stupid.** Kevin Kline as Otto West, \* A Fish Called Wanda\*

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**Author:** ![Realhoops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@Realhoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Realhoops)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/78 "2003-01-06T22:08:42Z")

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(But,) “ **you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on an education you could’a picked up for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.** ”  
–Will, Good Will Hunting

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**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/79 "2003-01-06T23:20:46Z")

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**I once stuck five dollars up my butt…** ~ Chad, 2ge+her

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-game/146500/80 "2003-01-06T23:29:37Z")

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“Show me the money!”

- Cuba Gooding Jr, _Jerry Maguire_

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