# 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:** [October 27, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4764 "2013-10-27T02:00:13Z")

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Oh, man. I ate so much pussy in those days, my beard looked like a glazed doughnut.

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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:** [October 28, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4765 "2013-10-28T17:49:57Z")

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Memories  
Light the corners of my mind  
Misty watercolor memories  
Of the way we were

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4766 "2013-10-28T18:03:38Z")

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I am a figment of your imagination. If you didn’t know, how could I?

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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:** [October 28, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4767 "2013-10-28T18:08:09Z")

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The clock didn’t strike. I definitely heard it not strike.

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**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:** [October 29, 2013, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4768 "2013-10-29T12:57:43Z")

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If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

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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:** [October 29, 2013, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4769 "2013-10-29T13:21:34Z")

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Oh, I don’t know; I can imagine a lot.

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**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:** [October 29, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4770 "2013-10-29T14:04:45Z")

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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination.

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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:** [October 29, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4771 "2013-10-29T14:11:07Z")

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I shall impersonate … a man. Come, enter into my imagination, and see him: Boney, hollow faced, eyes that burn with the fire of inner vision. He conceives the strangest project ever imagined … To become a knight errant And sally forth into the world, righting all wrongs!

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4772 "2013-10-29T14:12:43Z")

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We are the knights who say “Ni!”

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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:** [October 29, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4773 "2013-10-29T14:25:04Z")

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I know you are, but what am I?

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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:** [October 29, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4774 "2013-10-29T14:33:56Z")

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I am Spartacus!

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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:** [October 29, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4775 "2013-10-29T14:38:40Z")

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If I’m not me, then who the hell am I?

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**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:** [October 29, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4776 "2013-10-29T14:39:08Z")

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Are my eyes really brown?

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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:** [October 29, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4777 "2013-10-29T14:44:15Z")

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Can you even dye my eyes to match my gown?

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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:** [October 29, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4778 "2013-10-29T15:06:35Z")

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Eliza, you are to stay here for the next six months learning to speak beautifully, like a lady in a florist’s shop. If you work hard and do as you’re told, you shall sleep in a proper bedroom, have lots to eat, and money to buy chocolates and go for rides in taxis. But if you are naughty and idle, you shall sleep in the back kitchen amongst the black beetles, and be wolloped by Mrs. Pearce with a broomstick.

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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:** [October 29, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4779 "2013-10-29T15:34:49Z")

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But tonight he’s a liar, and a thief, and all that’s bad! Ain’t that enough for you without beating him to death?

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**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:** [October 29, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4780 "2013-10-29T17:41:43Z")

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Because I’m a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot?

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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:** [October 29, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4781 "2013-10-29T17:55:50Z")

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You, you, you humbug!

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**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:** [October 29, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4782 "2013-10-29T18:28:47Z")

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The Jews taught me this great word: Schmuck. I was a schmuck, and now I’m not a schmuck!

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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:** [October 30, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4783 "2013-10-30T16:29:26Z")

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May the Schwartz be with you!

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