# Speak to me only in Movie Quotes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [July 20, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882 "2012-07-20T20:16:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2883 "2013-04-13T22:49:37Z")

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I hope that was an empty bottle. You can’t afford to waste good liquor. Not on your salary! Not on an associate professor’s salary! So here I am, stuck with this flop…this bog in the History Department.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2884 "2013-04-14T07:07:31Z")

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Alright, alright, Mickey’s a mouse, Donald’s a duck, Pluto’s a dog.

What’s Goofy?

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2885 "2013-04-14T15:46:08Z")

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Mercy. What a grueling line of inquiry.

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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:** [April 14, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2886 "2013-04-14T16:29:01Z")

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My counsel would have you believe that we were not aware of the extermination of millions. That we were only aware of the extermination of the hundreds. Does that make us any the less guilty? Maybe we didn’t know the details. But if we didn’t know, it was because we did not want to know.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2887 "2013-04-15T13:14:41Z")

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I know who I am, and I’m proud of what I do. I was a conscientious choice, I didn’t fuck up!

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2888 "2013-04-15T15:34:12Z")

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Well, nobody’s perfect.

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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:** [April 15, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2889 "2013-04-15T15:55:01Z")

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You have to do the best with what God gave you.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2890 "2013-04-17T11:04:50Z")

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If you left God out of it, you’d have it just about right.

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**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2891 "2013-04-17T14:54:28Z")

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I do not mean to pry, but you don’t by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2892 "2013-04-17T16:10:19Z")

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Wait a minute. I know that hand. It was in the fall 1973 Bulova watch catalog. You´re J.P. Prewitt. The world’s greatest hand model.

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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:** [April 17, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2893 "2013-04-17T16:21:27Z")

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Well, I guess it all started the first time I went through the second grade. I caught my reflection in a spoon while I was eating my cereal, and I remember thinking: “Wow, you’re ridiculously good looking, maybe you could do that for a career.”

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2894 "2013-04-17T16:38:22Z")

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It’s just I’m… I’m so tired of being admired all the time. All these men I mean… they’re all beautiful, artistic minds, great sex, the whole package, but hollow, you know what I mean? I feel nobody’s really honest with me. Nobody wants me for me.

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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:** [April 17, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2895 "2013-04-17T16:41:40Z")

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Here I stand, the goddess of desire / Set men on fire / I have this power. / Morning, noon, and night, it’s dwink and dancing / Some quick womancing / And then a shower. / Stage door Johnnies constantly suwwound me / They always hound me, with one wequest. / Who can satisfy their lustful habits? / I’m not a wabbit. / I need some we…st!

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2896 "2013-04-17T16:51:17Z")

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Remember - you’re a lady. You make them beg for more… and then don’t give it to them!

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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:** [April 17, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2897 "2013-04-17T16:55:53Z")

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Give me, give me, give me what I cry for! You know you got the brand of kisses that I’d die for!

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2898 "2013-04-17T17:08:01Z")

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I appreciate this whole seduction thing you’ve got going on here, but let me give you a tip: I’m a sure thing.

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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:** [April 17, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2899 "2013-04-17T17:15:31Z")

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Why don’t you come up sometime and see me? I’m home every evening.

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2900 "2013-04-17T17:20:39Z")

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Crazy. I thought I’d visit your little land of learning. Cute. Cute pad.

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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:** [April 17, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2901 "2013-04-17T17:24:58Z")

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Forty-nine thousand acres of nothing but scenery and statues. I’m lonesome.

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/2902 "2013-04-17T17:28:41Z")

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Look, I don’t know what’s bothering you, but don’t take your bedroom problems out on me.

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