# 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:** 242
**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:** [November 6, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4824 "2013-11-06T20:24:01Z")
Elliot S! Maggin ---
**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:** [November 6, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4825 "2013-11-06T20:27:42Z")
How’s it going? I’m Bill, this is Ted. We’re from the future. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4826 "2013-11-07T09:02:12Z")
I’m Billy. This is So-crates. We’re from history. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4827 "2013-11-07T12:06:10Z")
History became legend; legend became myth. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4828 "2013-11-07T13:06:34Z")
That’s a myth! myth! Yeth? ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4829 "2013-11-07T14:24:21Z")
When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4830 "2013-11-07T14:34:32Z")
The Dude abides. I don’t know about you but I take comfort in that. It’s good knowin’ he’s out there. The Dude. Takin’ 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4831 "2013-11-07T15:00:55Z")
So I’m sitting in the locker room and I’m taping up my knee, and Larry’s undressing a couple locker’s down from me. And he’s kinda, he’s kinda skinny. Weak. And I started thinkin’ about my father, and his attitude about, about weakness. And the next thing I knew, I jumped on top of him and started wailing on him. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4832 "2013-11-07T15:17:43Z")
My father, was a drinker, and a fiend. And one night, he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn’t like that. Not. One. Bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me and says, “Why so serious?” Comes at me with the knife. “WHY SO SERIOUS?” He sticks the blade in my mouth… “Let’s put a smile on that face.” And… ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4833 "2013-11-07T15:30:58Z")
I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4834 "2013-11-07T15:34:35Z")
He had it comin’. He only had himself to blame. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4835 "2013-11-07T15:36:11Z")
Can you get me off the hook, Tom? For old times’ sake? ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4836 "2013-11-07T15:46:26Z")
Have to fly, have to fight, have to crow, have to save Maggie, have to save Jack, Hook is back. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4837 "2013-11-07T15:47:25Z")
Maggie! What a great little accident you turned out to be! ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4838 "2013-11-07T16:17:59Z")
This was no boating accident! ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4839 "2013-11-07T16:33:23Z")
You can be blasé about some things, Rose, but not about Titanic. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4840 "2013-11-07T16:46:14Z")
You know, you don’t act like a scientist. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4841 "2013-11-07T16:51:24Z")
I have seen the devil in my microscope, and I have chained him. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4842 "2013-11-07T16:56:53Z")
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/4843 "2013-11-07T17:02:30Z")
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