# 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:** ![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:** [May 22, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3264 "2013-05-22T13:12:29Z")

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Pleased to meet 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:** [May 22, 2013, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3265 "2013-05-22T13:15:43Z")

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Wow! Looking foxy tonight man.

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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:** [May 22, 2013, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3266 "2013-05-22T13:20:17Z")

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Would ya just watch the hair. Ya know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. He hits my hair.

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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:** [May 22, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3267 "2013-05-22T22:07:32Z")

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Goddammit, every time you come home there’s trouble. Why don’t you clean yourself up a bit? Why don’t you get a haircut? Get a haircut and I’ll give you the money, you don’t even have to pay it back.

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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:** [May 23, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3268 "2013-05-23T12:03:14Z")

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You lose my keys, you fail history, you spend all your time with your loser friend planning a band that’ll never happen. Now, you’re not to leave this house again until tomorow morning.

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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:** [May 24, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3269 "2013-05-24T02:10:01Z")

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Excuse me: if whoever was in this house is still in the house, I’d like you to know that I’ve just called the police. I’d also like to add that I’ve got my father’s gun and a _scorching_ case of herpes.

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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:** [May 24, 2013, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3270 "2013-05-24T12:10:25Z")

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None of the other girls ever gave me this much trouble.

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3271 "2013-05-24T12:16:01Z")

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I am no man!

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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:** [May 24, 2013, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3272 "2013-05-24T12:22:43Z")

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That ain’t no woman! It’s a man, man!

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3273 "2013-05-24T12:29:08Z")

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Idiot broads! Here we are, all packed, ready to leave for Miami, and what happens? The saxophone runs off with a Bible salesman, and the bass fiddle gets herself pregnant! Beinstock, I ought to fire you!

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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:** [May 24, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3274 "2013-05-24T12:35:29Z")

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We belong in show business. We gotta start young so we can get some steel in our backbone. Well, gee, we’re developing. You couldn’t teach us a trade: we’ve GOT one. And you couldn’t do without it… Oh, we’re only kids now, but someday we’re gonna be the guys that make ya laugh and cry and think that there’s a little stardust left on life’s dirty old pan. Oh, she don’t understand: she’d put butterflies to work makin’ rubber tires!

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3275 "2013-05-24T12:54:03Z")

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I was born in a trunk in Pocatella, Idaho.

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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:** [May 24, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3276 "2013-05-24T12:58:06Z")

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On top of that your ma and pa have parted! You’re broken-hearted, but you go on!

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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:** [May 24, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3277 "2013-05-24T22:46:29Z")

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You think you can make me sing? Do you think you can - do you think George can make me sing? or Ida? You can get me there, sure, but can you make me sing? I sing for myself. I sing when I want to, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Whenever I want - do you understand that?

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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:** [May 24, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3278 "2013-05-24T22:55:09Z")

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Wait a minute, wait a minute, I tell ya, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet.

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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:** [May 24, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3279 "2013-05-24T23:05:40Z")

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Don’t worry, sweetheart. If the show folds I can always get a part as understudy for my grandmother.

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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:** [May 24, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3280 "2013-05-24T23:10:29Z")

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My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.

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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:** [May 24, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3281 "2013-05-24T23:23:23Z")

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And don’t forget to tell your friends what happens if they fuck up around here. You understand?

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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:** [May 24, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3282 "2013-05-24T23:25:51Z")

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Hey, onion-head, go on back to the shed and grab the chainsaw.

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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:** [May 24, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3283 "2013-05-24T23:36:54Z")

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I’s scared to go down there to the car shed.

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