# 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:** 385
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7684 "2014-08-08T18:54:35Z")
He fulfilled his contract. He’s an honorable man. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7685 "2014-08-08T21:24:14Z")
The job’s done and the bitch is dead. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7686 "2014-08-08T21:25:27Z")
Has it ever occurred to you that I have agreed to look after the Overlook Hotel until May the first? Does it matter to you at all that the owners have placed their complete confidence and trust in me, and that I have signed a letter of agreement, a contract, in which I have accepted that responsibility? Do you have the slightest idea what a moral and ethical principal is? ---
**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:** [August 8, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7687 "2014-08-08T21:30:39Z")
Please can you describe to us in as much detail as you desire your experience of the ambiance and atmosphere of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7688 "2014-08-08T21:35:12Z")
Well, you haven’t been trained properly, Otto. A lobby boy never provides information of that kind. You’re a stone wall. Understood? ---
**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:** [August 8, 2014, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7689 "2014-08-08T22:02:32Z")
This man is Pyramus, if you would know; This beauteous lady Thisby is certain. This man, with lime and rough-cast, doth present 135 Wall, that vile Wall which did these lovers sunder; And through Wall’s chink, poor souls, they are content To whisper. At the which let no man wonder. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7690 "2014-08-08T22:34:04Z")
Look, if I were to go around saying I were an emperor just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7691 "2014-08-08T23:40:59Z")
It’s good to be the King! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7692 "2014-08-09T00:54:45Z")
WOMAN: Who are the Britons? ARTHUR: Well, we all are. We’re all Britons and I am your king. WOMAN : I didn’t know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7693 "2014-08-09T01:45:14Z")
Uh, what country do you think this is? ---
**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:** [August 9, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7694 "2014-08-09T02:10:13Z")
Men of Fenwick, where you hear the name of Grand Fenwick do your hearts swell with pride? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7695 "2014-08-09T03:42:04Z")
Nobody loves America more than I do, you know. That’s why we left, 'cause I couldn’t bear to watch. You kids have got to understand this. It’s like when my mother died. She’d been strong as an ox. Fell down, broke her hip, went into the hospital and caught double pneumonia. She’s laying in bed dying and I went over and held her hand. She looked up to me. You know what she said? “Why don’t you give me some rat poison?” I couldn’t listen, I couldn’t watch. So I went away. People said I was the height of callousness; it’s not true. I loved her too much to watch her die. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7696 "2014-08-09T15:22:10Z")
It’s not like my mother is a maniac or a raving thing. She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven’t you? ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7697 "2014-08-09T15:44:59Z")
My brains are individuals - they’re special - they’re unique. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7698 "2014-08-09T17:03:36Z")
Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7699 "2014-08-09T17:46:43Z")
Maggots, Michael. You’re eating maggots. How do they taste? ---
**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:** [August 9, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7700 "2014-08-09T17:56:43Z")
I’ve had this taste in my mouth before. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7701 "2014-08-09T18:02:08Z")
I’m gonna take this off your mouth, this - this lipstick… ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7702 "2014-08-10T05:09:08Z")
You don’t have to say anything, and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/7703 "2014-08-10T15:02:02Z")
You know Steve, you’re not very hard to figure, only at times. Sometimes I know exactly what you’re going to say. Most of the time. The other times… the other times, you’re just a stinker. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=384) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=386)