# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/61 "2012-07-22T02:42:57Z")
“What we’ve got here… is a failure to communicate.” ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/62 "2012-07-22T02:44:59Z")
Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey. ---
**Author:** ![florez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@florez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/florez)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/63 "2012-07-22T02:50:54Z")
I don’t want to put you in a cage. I want to love you. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/64 "2012-07-22T02:52:24Z")
“Two go in, one comes out” ---
**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:** [July 22, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/65 "2012-07-22T03:03:51Z")
A game-legged old man and a drunk. That’s all you got? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/66 "2012-07-22T03:31:50Z")
I’ve got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/67 "2012-07-22T03:38:38Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](#): > > I’ve got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you I guess that’s the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin’ itself. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/68 "2012-07-22T04:07:50Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > I guess that’s the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin’ itself. You said I’m funny. How the fuck am I funny, what the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what’s funny! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/69 "2012-07-22T04:08:45Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > You said I’m funny. How the fuck am I funny, what the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what’s funny! You’re a funny guy, Sully. I LIKE you. That’s why I’m going to kill you last. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/70 "2012-07-22T04:18:24Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > You’re a funny guy, Sully. I LIKE you. That’s why I’m going to kill you last. The only question is, how do you want to die? We need to hear the truth. If you persist in lying to us, we’ll torture you. You’ll die only after many hours of agony and horror. You give us honesty now, and you’ll go swiftly, painlessly. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/71 "2012-07-22T04:38:51Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > The only question is, how do you want to die? We need to hear the truth. If you persist in lying to us, we’ll torture you. You’ll die only after many hours of agony and horror. You give us honesty now, and you’ll go swiftly, painlessly. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I’ve watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/72 "2012-07-22T05:12:47Z")
They think…_they_ think You’ve been faking it. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2012, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/73 "2012-07-22T05:27:24Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > They think…_they_ think You’ve been faking it. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/74 "2012-07-22T06:36:23Z")
“When I was a child, my mother would tell me a story about how the Devil roams the Earth. Sometimes, she said, he would take human form so he could punish the damned on Earth before claiming their souls. The ones he chose would be gathered together and tortured as he hid amongst them, pretending to be one of them” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/75 "2012-07-22T06:59:21Z")
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of eldeberries! ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/76 "2012-07-22T07:06:32Z")
Your mother was a snowblower! ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/77 "2012-07-22T08:15:28Z")
You’re mom goes to college. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/78 "2012-07-22T08:24:05Z")
Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/79 "2012-07-22T11:40:31Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. “And that’s the only thing I need is _this_. I don’t need this or this. Just this ashtray… And this paddle game. - The ashtray and the paddle game and that’s all I need… And this remote control. - The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that’s all I need… And these matches. - The ashtray, and these matches, and the remote control, and the paddle ball… And this lamp. - The ashtray, this paddle game, and the remote control, and the lamp, and that’s all _I_ need. And that’s _all_ I need too. I don’t need one other thing, not one… I need this. - The paddle game and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches for sure. Well what are you looking at? What do you think I’m some kind of a jerk or something! - And this. That’s all I need.” ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/80 "2012-07-22T12:08:07Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son. Because they know all they sold ya was a guaranteed piece of shit. That’s all it is, isn’t it? Hey, if you want me to take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed, I will. I got spare time. But for now, for your customer’s sake, for your daughter’s sake, ya might wanna think about buying a quality product from me. (I’m not happy about having to decide to skip **Foie** ’s quote from The Jerk, but it’s from the top of the page, so…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=5)