# 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:** 455
**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:** [March 30, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9084 "2015-03-30T23:49:31Z")
Pressure? Let me just say that Rambo is the best combat vet I’ve ever seen. A pure fighting machine with only a desire to win a war that someone else lost. And if winning means he has to die – he’ll die. No fear, no regrets. And one more thing: what you choose to call hell, he calls home. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9085 "2015-03-31T00:51:40Z")
Today is a good day to die. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9086 "2015-03-31T20:24:51Z")
They’re men with itchy fingers and a coil of rope around their saddle horns, lookin’ for somebody to hang. And after riding a few hours they don’t care much WHO they hang. You haven’t told me a thing I don’t know. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9087 "2015-03-31T21:42:27Z")
She killed a man ln Wolf City, Wyoming Wolf City, Wyoming, Killed a man, it’s true And that is why they’re hanging, Hanging Cat Ballou ---
**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:** [March 31, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9088 "2015-03-31T22:48:04Z")
Maybe I’ll turn into a wolfman now. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9089 "2015-03-31T23:39:01Z")
Now I guess I’ll go in and piss on the fish. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9090 "2015-03-31T23:44:27Z")
You’d better flush out your head, new guy. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9091 "2015-04-01T01:54:28Z")
What is that watermelon doing there? ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9092 "2015-04-01T14:16:13Z")
His real name is Benjamin Raspail, a former patient of mine, whose romantic attachments ran to - shall we say - the exotic. I did not kill him; merely tucked him away very much as I found him, after he’d missed three appointments. Best thing for him, really - his therapy was going nowhere. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9093 "2015-04-01T15:12:45Z")
I’m sick of my sister’s attraction to razor blades - and I’m sick of shrinks who can’t do a fucking thing to help her. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9094 "2015-04-01T15:24:52Z")
Stay with me. Stay with me. Repeat after me. Goosefraba. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9095 "2015-04-01T19:08:50Z")
I am the queen. You will listen to me. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9096 "2015-04-01T21:36:05Z")
_If I were King of the Forest Not queen, not duke, not prince! My regal robes of the forest Would be satin, not cotton, not chintz! I’d command each thing, be it fish or fowl With a woof and a woof and a royal growl [woof!] As I’d click my heel, all the trees would kneel And the mountains bow and the bulls kowtow And the sparrow would take wing - If I - If I - were King! Each rabbit would show respect to me The chipmunks genuflect to me Though my tail would lash, I would show compash For every underling! If I - If I - were King! Just King!_ ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9097 "2015-04-01T23:01:55Z")
Well, you have to know these things when you’re a king, you know. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9098 "2015-04-01T23:33:31Z")
Awww, come on guys, it’s so simple. Maybe you need a refresher course. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9099 "2015-04-02T00:04:31Z")
Who’s going to believe a talking head? Get a job in a sideshow. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9100 "2015-04-02T00:28:21Z")
As, 'tis Max Headroom here, and I quote from the bard, Shakespeare, a writer: “The quality of TV is not strained, it dropeth as the gentle ratings dropeth to a very tiny percentage share and, lo, 'tis gone.” Of course, Shakespeare would have loved your rating system. Twelfth Night would have been lucky to have lasted _one_! ---
**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:** [April 2, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9101 "2015-04-02T00:40:05Z")
Mozart was lucky the emperor yawned only once. Three yawns, and the opera would fail the same night. Two yawns, within a week at most. With one yawn, the composer could still get… nine performances! ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9102 "2015-04-02T01:22:42Z")
I was “an Elizabethan fruit fly.” I was “the Betty Boop of Stratford-on-Avon.” I was “putrid.” Capital P, capital U, capital TRID. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9103 "2015-04-02T01:31:25Z")
Put on a frock and I can sing ‘Stand by Your Man’ in front of five hundred strangers… Put on a pair of jeans and I can’t even sodding well say hello. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=454) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=456)