# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/21 "2005-04-23T01:34:35Z")
“People will say we’re in love!” Hannibal Lecter to Clarice Starling in **Silence of the Lambs** , a reference to a song lyric in **Oklahoma!** “You have no idea!” Jeremy Irons’ evil lion character in **The Lion King** , referring to a line the same actor spoke as Klaus von Bulow in **Reversal of Fortune**. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/22 "2005-04-23T02:49:42Z")
Just a slight aside: since hearing Danny Devito as Philoctetes repeat the “Hey! I’m walkin’ here” line in the Disney Hercules movie, I have been trying to remember where I’d heard it before. So thanks for laying that to rest. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/23 "2005-04-23T05:19:20Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > Just a slight aside: since hearing Danny Devito as Philoctetes repeat the “Hey! I’m walkin’ here” line in the Disney Hercules movie, I have been trying to remember where I’d heard it before. So thanks for laying that to rest. My favorite use of the line was in Forrest Gump when Lt. Dan yelled it from his wheelchair. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/24 "2005-04-23T06:15:23Z")
_Re:_ “No matter where you go, there you are.” > [@Tracy Lord](#): > > As did Confucius, I believe. I’ll need a cite for this, please. It’s been ages since I read anything Confucian, but I don’t recall anything like that among his works. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/25 "2005-04-23T07:20:28Z")
“Can we do that again?” --spoken after a car chase that’s gone badly wrong, or a plane crash, or some similar transportation mishap (Calvin & Hobbes on the sled, etc.) “{He/she/it/something terrible} is behind me, isn’t {he/she/it etc.}” The monster, the boss the speaker’s just been dissing, to a person who’s facing the speaker and whose face may or may not have just revealed that Something/someone bad is back there. And did “You keep using that word; it doesn’t mean what you think it does” come from a movie (if not, it should have) or is it just an SBDMB cliche? ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/26 "2005-04-23T08:17:14Z")
[QUOTE=Hilarity N. Suze And did “You keep using that word; it doesn’t mean what you think it does” come from a movie (if not, it should have) or is it just an SBDMB cliche?[/QUOTE] It comes from The Princess Bride, a quote by Inigo Montoya. When the dude keeps saying “Inconceivable!” ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/27 "2005-04-23T08:18:23Z")
Actually the exact quote, I think, is "You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means. " ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/28 "2005-04-23T08:21:25Z")
> [@Hilarity N. Suze](#): > > And did “You keep using that word; it doesn’t mean what you think it does” come from a movie (if not, it should have) or is it just an SBDMB cliche? The Princess Bride. Inigo says it to Vizzini after about the millionth time Vizzini cries, “Inconceivable!” The actual line is, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Said in a Spanish accent. I love that movie. (on preview) Yeah, what **LorieSmurf** said. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/29 "2005-04-23T13:19:12Z")
I’ve also been trying to remember whether Shatner said in Star Trek IV when he was walking in (then)present day California. I guess I’ll have to rent the movie… (Wonder if it’s on DVD?) ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/30 "2005-04-23T13:20:14Z")
Sorry - mine was to \*\*tdn \*\*re: “Hey! I’m walkin’ here.” ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/31 "2005-04-23T13:48:11Z")
> [@Tracy Lord](#): > > As did Confucius, I believe. Confucius? I was thinking of the other wise sage, Yogi Berra. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/32 "2005-04-23T14:19:15Z")
> [@lno](#): > > Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo in _Midnight Cowboy_ (1969). Was also said by Wesley Snipes as Miss Noxzeema Jackson in _To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar_. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/33 "2005-04-23T23:02:32Z")
“Hey, I’m walkin’ here!” Also said in at least one of the _Back to the Future_ movies. Given the way they go, probably in all of them. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/34 "2005-04-24T15:00:31Z")
\ You killed my Father! \No Buzz \ I…AM! your Father! \ NOOOOOOOOO!!! [Rex knocks Zurg off the elevator, as he falls, Buzz leans over the edge as Zurg falls and says mournfully…] \ Father… when Buzz2 is playing catch with Zurg and says “farewell” to Buzz1 he uses the Vulcan hand salute (Live Long and Prosper) and of course the Spaceballs classic… \ I am your father’s, brothers, nephew’s, cousin’s former roommate \ What does that make us? \ Absolutely Nothing, which is what you are about to become and not a reused line, but just funny, and begging to be reused… \ now you see that Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/35 "2005-04-24T21:17:57Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > The “Hill of beans” scene from **Casablanca** has been used thousands of times since then. Including _The Naked Gun_, which I’m surprised you didn’t point out. I believe the version there was “The problems of two people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world, but this is our hill, and those are our beans.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/36 "2005-04-24T21:19:20Z")
Also often used from _Casablanca_ is the famous final line: “This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” And two other lines towards a film’s close often reused for parody’s sake are “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” and “There’s no place like home.” ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664/37 "2005-04-24T21:55:14Z")
Cheating a little, on the Buffy TV show I can remember at least one instance where a character quoted a movie line, specifically Xander saying in reference to the great size of a demon, “We’re going to need a bigger boat.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reused-classic-movie-lines/300664.md?page=1)