# Reused classic movie lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664 "2005-04-22T19:45:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/1 "2005-04-22T19:45:01Z")
Inspired by the [One time in band camp](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=313156) thread, I was wondering what movies have inspired phrases or sentences that have been repeated in many other movies, often with hilarious or ironic results. For instance, “Go ahead, make my day” first appeared in Sudden Impact, but has been used in countless other movies since then. What others are there? Note: This is not a thread about your favorite line in a movie, or a line often quoted near the office water cooler, it’s about lines that are repeated in countless other movies, usually as homages. Here are four examples. I don’t know their sources, so if y’all could fill me in, I’d appreciate it: “Is that a \_\_\_\_\_\_ in your \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, or are ya just glad to see me?” “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” “Hey, I’m walkin’ here!” “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/2 "2005-04-22T19:55:23Z")
I hope this counts… Star Wars: A New Hope Remember Han Solo’s effeminate conversation with an Imperial in the detention block? At the end he shoots the console and says “Boring conversation anyway… Luke we’re gonna have company!” In Navy SEALS with Charlie Sheen (my scene description may be a little off but the lines are right) At the end of the movie two of the SEALS (disguised as locals), one of which is Sheen, are watching a building from cover. Other SEALS are trying to sneak out of the building. A guard happens upon them (Sheen and the other). Their backs are to the guy so he thinks they are just fellow guards out of position. He starts yammering at them and Charlie Sheen turns around and shoots him. He then says “Boring conversation anyway…(two the guys sneaking out of the building) Lieutenant we’re gonna have company!” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/3 "2005-04-22T19:56:27Z")
“No matter where you go, there you are.” Used in both “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai,” and “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.” The usage was not an homage, however – they appear to have come up independently. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/4 "2005-04-22T20:09:14Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > I hope this counts… I guess it does, but I’m totally unfamiliar with that one. I’m sure that “Come to the Dark Side” has been used in a bunch of other movies. And in the late 70s everyone on TV was saying something like “We’re going to have a close encounter of the _sexy_ kind!” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/5 "2005-04-22T20:09:56Z")
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” First spoken by Ali McGraw to Ryan O’Neal in _Love Story_. In _What’s Up, Doc?_, Barbra Streisand says the same thing to Ryan O’Neal, to which he responds: “That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard.” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/6 "2005-04-22T20:13:42Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > “No matter where you go, there you are.” Used in both “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai,” and “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.” The usage was not an homage, however – they appear to have come up independently. There may be an earlier movie where that was said, though. My friends and I were saying that around 4 years prior to those movies coming out. ---
**Author:** ![Jenny\_Haniver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Jenny\_Haniver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenny_Haniver)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/7 "2005-04-22T20:18:41Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > Remember Han Solo’s _effeminate_ conversation with an Imperial in the detention block? I don’t think that word means what you think it means. My contribution: “You talking to me?” ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/8 "2005-04-22T20:34:17Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Note: This is not a thread about your favorite line in a movie, or a line often quoted near the office water cooler, it’s about lines that are repeated in countless other movies, usually as homages. Here are four examples. I don’t know their sources, so if y’all could fill me in, I’d appreciate it: > > “Is that a \_\_\_\_\_\_ in your \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, or are ya just glad to see me?” Mae West said “Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?” in _She Done Him Wrong_ (1933). > [@](#): > > “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” Alfonso Bedoya, playing a Mexican bandit, said “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!” in _Treasure of the Sierra Madre_ (1948). > [@](#): > > “Hey, I’m walkin’ here!” Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo in _Midnight Cowboy_ (1969). > [@](#): > > “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” This was a tagline for _The Fly_ (1986); this one I don’t know offhand if there was an earlier reference. I can’t seem to find one. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/9 "2005-04-22T20:40:23Z")
Not from a movie, originally, but I just heard a clip from a movie that’s just been released called _King’s Ransom_ in which a character says “I love it when a plan comes together.” ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/10 "2005-04-22T20:47:07Z")
> [@cher3](#): > > Not from a movie, originally, but I just heard a clip from a movie that’s just been released called _King’s Ransom_ in which a character says “I love it when a plan comes together.” Which I believe was from TV, George Peppard in “The A Team”. Satch ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/11 "2005-04-22T20:48:58Z")
> [@lno](#): > > Mae West (snip) Thanks for those. I was pretty close on my guesses. But I think you’re off on The Fly. I think there might be an earlier instance of it. Or, I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/12 "2005-04-22T21:05:33Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > But I think you’re off on The Fly. I think there might be an earlier instance of it. Or, I could be wrong. It wouldn’t surprise me - that’s the one I was most unsure about, but everything I can find online confirms that. All of the other attributions to it are much later than 1986.[ > [@](#): > > ]([what movie does the saying Be afraid, be very afraid, come... - Q&A](http://www.faqs.org/qa/qa-11589.html))_what movie does the saying Be afraid, be very afraid, come from?_ > > Sophie, this tag line comes from David Cronenburgs 1986 version of The Fly, check out further info at [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091064/](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091064/) > > For what it’s worth, the words “Be afraid, be very afraid” are also used for Mel Smith’s 1997 film Bean, but somehow I don’t suspect this is the film you were thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/13 "2005-04-22T21:26:54Z")
> [@Jenny Haniver](#): > > I don’t think that word means what you think it means. Nope. It does. From [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com) 1.Having qualities or characteristics more often associated with women than men. See Synonyms at female. 2.Characterized by weakness and excessive refinement. Han Solo does adopt an effeminate voice for his conversation with the Imperial. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/14 "2005-04-22T22:20:06Z")
“No ticket” Originally in **The Last Crusade** , used to great effect in **Dogma** ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/15 "2005-04-22T22:24:15Z")
“Houston, we/you have a problem,” noticed when fx showed _Armageddon_ the other day. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/16 "2005-04-22T22:44:39Z")
**The Naked Gun** spoofed the line from **Dirty Harry** about the trouble in the Fillmore district. (paraphrasing) Mayor: “And Callahan - I don’t want any more trouble out of you like last year in the Fillmore disctrict - got it? That’s my policy.” Harry: “Well, when I see a man chasing a woman with intent to commit rape, I shoot the bastard. That’s my policy.” Mayor: “Intent? How did you figure that?” Harry: “Well when a naked man is chasing a woman with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn’t out collecting for the red cross.” The **Naked Gun** version: Frank: “Well, when I see five guys dressed in togas, stabbing a man in the middle of the park, I shoot the bastards, that’s my policy.” Mayor: “That was a Shakespeare In The Park Production of Julius Caesar! You killed five actors!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/17 "2005-04-22T23:13:19Z")
“I’ll be back.” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/18 "2005-04-22T23:33:01Z")
“One more thing Austin Powers: I am your Father.” “Really?” “No, not really. I can’t back that up.” * * * The “Hill of beans” scene from **Casablanca** has been used thousands of times since then. * * * **Airplane** spoofed the scene from **Knute Rockney - All American** : “Win one more for the Zipper.” ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/19 "2005-04-23T01:08:01Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” > > First spoken by Ali McGraw to Ryan O’Neal in _Love Story_. > > In _What’s Up, Doc?_, Barbra Streisand says the same thing to Ryan O’Neal, to which he responds: > > “That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard.” When John & Yoko spent a week on The Mike Douglas Show in the 70’s MD asked John if they’d seen the film. John replied, “Love means never having to watch that movie!” ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/20 "2005-04-23T01:20:29Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > “No matter where you go, there you are.” Used in both “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai,” and “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.” The usage was not an homage, however – they appear to have come up independently. As did Confucius, I believe. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664.md?page=2)