# Speak to me only in Movie Quotes **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 194
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3864 "2013-08-09T19:08:46Z")
He won’t gallop any more, and - horses will be quite safe. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3865 "2013-08-09T19:14:17Z")
You’re twelve; you think a horse of yours can win the Grand National. Your dream has come early; but remember, Velvet, it will have to last you all the rest of your life. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3866 "2013-08-09T19:32:53Z")
I put it all on Lucky Dan; half a million dollars to win. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2013, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3867 "2013-08-09T19:47:44Z")
To win? I said _place_! “Place hit on Lucky D-” That horse is gonna run second! ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3868 "2013-08-09T19:49:36Z")
I got the horse right here, his name is Paul Revere, and there’s a guy who says that maybe if the weather’s clear, can do, can do, this guy says the horse can do. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3869 "2013-08-09T19:56:11Z")
Hey, boss! C’mere! Sun-Up is the worst horse on the track! ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3870 "2013-08-10T04:03:26Z")
He breaks late. Everyone knows this. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2013, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3871 "2013-08-10T04:27:05Z")
Break NOW, Jester! ---
**Author:** ![slm2955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@slm2955](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slm2955)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3872 "2013-08-10T04:28:22Z")
Great movie. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3873 "2013-08-10T15:24:42Z")
Mr. Marceau, how would you like to appear in the first silent movie made in nearly fifty years? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3874 "2013-08-10T15:52:45Z")
The man’s been in here fifty years, Heywood. _Fifty years_! This is all he knows. In here, he’s an important man. He’s an educated man. Outside, he’s nothin’! Just a used up con with arthritis in both hands. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3875 "2013-08-10T18:05:04Z")
Robert Stroud’s petition for parole has been denied annually for 24 years. Age 72, he is now in his 53rd year of imprisonment. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3876 "2013-08-10T18:09:33Z")
You’re not just telling us what we want to hear? ---
**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:** [August 10, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3877 "2013-08-10T18:09:40Z")
Dude, did you mean to put that in past tense? He died in 1963 at the age of 73. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3878 "2013-08-10T18:18:10Z")
\ Disregard my last - I forgot we were in movie quotes. Please, play on. \ ---
**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:** [August 10, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3879 "2013-08-10T19:22:03Z")
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3880 "2013-08-10T19:26:41Z")
Michael, why are the drapes open? ---
**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:** [August 10, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3881 "2013-08-10T19:28:46Z")
Scoot up to the attic and get Ma’s old box of dress patterns, Mammy. You’re going to make me a new dress. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3882 "2013-08-10T19:46:40Z")
I’ll walk a million miles for one of your smiles, my Mammy. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/3883 "2013-08-10T20:14:18Z")
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