# 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:** [February 8, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5644 "2014-02-08T14:38:18Z")

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I do this for a living. It’s not a, not a fucking parlor game.

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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:** [February 8, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5645 "2014-02-08T16:39:06Z")

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Don’t call me sir. I work for a living.

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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5646 "2014-02-09T04:26:54Z")

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Gunnery Sgt, Ensign Seeger, Sir.

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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:** [February 9, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5647 "2014-02-09T20:21:39Z")

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Yes, sir!

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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:** [February 9, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5648 "2014-02-09T20:28:05Z")

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I am your king.

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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5649 "2014-02-09T23:09:30Z")

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In the end, their king fell. And the source of their power was taken from them.

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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:** [February 10, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5650 "2014-02-10T00:05:30Z")

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There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well. This movement will never survive; if you join them, you and your entire family will be shunned. At best, you will exist a pariah to be spat at and beaten-at worst, to be lynched or crucified. And for what? For what? No matter what you do it will never amount to anything more than a single drop in a limitless ocean.

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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5651 "2014-02-10T00:20:11Z")

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Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5652 "2014-02-10T00:26:56Z")

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Help, help, I’m being repressed!

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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:** [February 10, 2014, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5653 "2014-02-10T00:31:48Z")

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Hey! You’ve been messing about with me in my kip!

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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5654 "2014-02-10T02:27:46Z")

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Pretty bold talk for a one-eyed fat 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:** [February 10, 2014, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5655 "2014-02-10T02:47:18Z")

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What squinky eye?

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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:** [February 10, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5656 "2014-02-10T13:42:33Z")

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Is that Your answer, Old Man? I guess You’re a hard case, too.

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**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5657 "2014-02-10T14:24:54Z")

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Kids; Can’t live with them, can’t shoot them.

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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:** [February 10, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5658 "2014-02-10T14:47:49Z")

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Kids! What’s the matter with kids today?

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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:** [February 10, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5659 "2014-02-10T15:30:05Z")

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They’re here already! You’re next! You’re next, You’re next…!

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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:** [February 10, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5660 "2014-02-10T16:03:18Z")

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Somebody has to look after my daughter and grandchild, while you’re out carousing with a bunch of Neanderthals.

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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:** [February 10, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5661 "2014-02-10T18:05:36Z")

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It doesn’t matter, as long as it is not a boy!

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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:** [February 10, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5662 "2014-02-10T19:47:03Z")

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I’m… not a man.

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**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/5663 "2014-02-10T19:50:02Z")

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I am what I am. I am my own special creation.

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