# 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:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/581 "2012-08-11T18:02:17Z")

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There’s a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that that’s all some people have? It isn’t much, but it’s better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/582 "2012-08-11T19:48:38Z")

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You can’t navigate me. I may do mean things, and I may hurt you, and I may run away without your permission, and you may hate me forever, and I know that scares the living shit outta you 'cause you know I’m the only real thing you got.

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/583 "2012-08-11T21:53:11Z")

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You know what I am? I’m your worst fuckin’ nightmare, man. I’m a nigger with a badge. That mean I got permission to kick your fuckin’ ass whenever I feel like it.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/584 "2012-08-11T21:58:16Z")

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Excuse me, sir, but he specifically asked for “niggers”? Well, truth be told … my mother was Irish!

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/585 "2012-08-11T22:02:23Z")

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Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.  
[URL=“[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/quotes?qt0470576](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/quotes?qt0470576)”]

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/586 "2012-08-11T22:04:50Z")

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Oh, lawdy, lawdy, he des’prit! Do what he sayyyy, do what he sayyyy!

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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/587 "2012-08-11T22:29:35Z")

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You know what Nietzsche says: even the strongest have their moments of fatigue. And I’m fatigued, Danny. I’m just… I’m fucking fatigued.

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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/588 "2012-08-11T22:31:52Z")

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I can see your dirty pillows. Everyone will.

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**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/589 "2012-08-11T22:42:16Z")

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Those aren’t pillows!

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/590 "2012-08-11T22:45:16Z")

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Hey, Bunny, it’s not my hand!

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/591 "2012-08-11T22:46:35Z")

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At first I couldn’t understand what the pillows where doing in my hands and why you didn’t move, but then I knew, it had happened, I killed my children. I got the rifle, I put it to my forehead and I pulled the trigger…, nothing. And I heard your laughter in the bedroom, you were playing with the pillows as if nothing had happened, and I thought the Lord and his great mercy was giving me another chance.

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/592 "2012-08-11T23:09:28Z")

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God has nothing to do with it. In fact, God is never in France this time of year.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/593 "2012-08-12T01:00:40Z")

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What does God need with a starship?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/594 "2012-08-12T02:08:01Z")

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What’s this bullshit? I don’t fuckin’ care! It don’t matter to Jesus. But you’re not foolin’ me, man. You might fool the fucks in the league office, but you don’t fool Jesus.

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/595 "2012-08-12T09:52:27Z")

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Who’s the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/596 "2012-08-12T13:51:06Z")

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Where did you dig up that old fossil?!

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/597 "2012-08-12T14:01:47Z")

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We had to dig him out from under the most peculiar things I ever saw.  
**[URL=“[Whit Bissell - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000946/)”]**

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/598 "2012-08-12T14:53:55Z")

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Looks just like a dog down there on all fours, doesn’t he?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/599 "2012-08-12T15:31:21Z")

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There are only three things in this world that give unconditional acceptance: dogs, doughnuts, and money. Only money is better. You know why? Because it don’t make you fat, and it don’t poop all over the living room floor.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/600 "2012-08-12T16:25:09Z")

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Everybody likes money. That’s why they call it “money.”

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