# 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:** ![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:** [December 9, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5164 "2013-12-09T20:43:46Z")

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Wait. Where are you going? I was going to make Espresso.

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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:** [December 9, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5165 "2013-12-09T20:46:17Z")

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With the world saved and the secrets of Da Vinci protected, Eddie finally got his coffee.

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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:** [December 9, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5166 "2013-12-09T21:07:46Z")

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Caffeine leads to depression, makes you all irritable, have your heart beating fast. Faster heart rate, you know what I mean? And worse than anything, you drink that coffee, it gives you the shits, you know what I mean? So I try to stay away from that.

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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:** [December 10, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5167 "2013-12-10T12:53:53Z")

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I’ve got the caffeine patch. It’s the equivalent of twelve cups of coffee. You can stay awake for days with no side effects. (Screams) Sorry.

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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:** [December 10, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5168 "2013-12-10T13:08:57Z")

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Fumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition.

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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:** [December 10, 2013, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5169 "2013-12-10T13:39:51Z")

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Ah. Enough of this talk of plots and scenarios. Uh, join me in a cup of coffee, would 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:** [December 10, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5170 "2013-12-10T13:46:17Z")

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It’s exposition. It has to go someplace.

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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:** [December 10, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5171 "2013-12-10T13:51:41Z")

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Hey… knock a self a pro, Slick! That gray matter backlot perform us DOWN, I take TCB-in’, 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:** [December 10, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5172 "2013-12-10T14:05:00Z")

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You calling me a jive turkey?

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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:** [December 10, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5173 "2013-12-10T17:30:46Z")

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…I think we should take a moment to think about what it’s like to be a turkey.

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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:** [December 10, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5174 "2013-12-10T17:35:10Z")

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I have to murder and dismember a crustacean.

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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:** [December 10, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5175 "2013-12-10T17:46:30Z")

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Alvy, they’re only baby ones, for God’s sake.

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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:** [December 10, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5176 "2013-12-10T18:20:01Z")

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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

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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:** [December 10, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5177 "2013-12-10T18:26:20Z")

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Nothing to do but cut and run, huh? What else? What about the old American social custom of self-defense? If the police don’t defense us, maybe we ought to do it ourselves.

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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:** [December 10, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5178 "2013-12-10T18:59:55Z")

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Who watches the watchmen?

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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:** [December 10, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5179 "2013-12-10T20:30:20Z")

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I had a ant farm once.

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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:** [December 10, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5180 "2013-12-10T21:13:55Z")

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You da ant.

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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:** [December 10, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5181 "2013-12-10T21:16:22Z")

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You’re the man now, dog.

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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:** [December 10, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5182 "2013-12-10T21:19:04Z")

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Y-yes, I am the man!

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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:** [December 10, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5183 "2013-12-10T21:21:32Z")

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But now I understand you’re God.  
At least that’s what you’ve said.

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