# 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:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9324 "2015-05-12T22:46:28Z")

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I was an only child. He was an only dog.

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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:** [May 13, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9325 "2015-05-13T13:07:54Z")

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I’m a mog. Half man, half dog. I’m my own best friend.

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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:** [May 13, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9326 "2015-05-13T13:18:51Z")

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It isn’t what you’re thinking, Doc.

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**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:** [May 13, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9327 "2015-05-13T13:53:02Z")

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I don’t know, I can imagine quite a bit.

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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:** [May 13, 2015, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9328 "2015-05-13T15:00:10Z")

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Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination.

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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:** [May 13, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9329 "2015-05-13T17:53:04Z")

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Is he gone? Oh, can you imagine? He asked me to marry him. Me, the wife of that boorish, brainless…“Madame Gaston!” Can’t you just see it?

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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:** [May 14, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9330 "2015-05-14T17:15:45Z")

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The island where my wife stayed for seven years, Your Honor.

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**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:** [May 14, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9331 "2015-05-14T17:22:36Z")

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And what is your point? Well…we might just make it. Did that thought ever cross your brain? Well regardless, I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean than to stay here and die on this shithole island, spending the rest of my life TALKING TO A GODDAMN VOLLEYBALL!!!

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**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:** [May 14, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9332 "2015-05-14T17:35:02Z")

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If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

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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:** [May 14, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9333 "2015-05-14T20:10:21Z")

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If you’re going to become true dodgeballers, then you’ve got to learn the five d’s of dodgeball: dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge!

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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:** [May 15, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9334 "2015-05-15T13:10:24Z")

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You know what you almost never see? Someone heckling a diver.

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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:** [May 15, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9335 "2015-05-15T16:46:04Z")

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What the fuck did I just hear?

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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:** [May 15, 2015, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9336 "2015-05-15T18:30:27Z")

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Well, you take some skins/ Jazz begins / Then you take a bass / Man, now we’re Getting someplace

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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:** [May 15, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9337 "2015-05-15T18:32:56Z")

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When you play me  
Le Jazz Hot baby  
You’re holding my soul together  
Don’t know whether it’s morning or night  
Only know it’s sounding right  
So come on in and play me  
Le Jazz Hot baby  
Cause I love my jazz hot!

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**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:** [May 15, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9338 "2015-05-15T20:41:47Z")

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On the page, it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse. Bassoons and basset horns, like a rusty squeezebox. And then suddenly, high above it, an oboe. A single note, hanging there, unwavering. Until a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I’d never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing, it had me trembling. It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God.

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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:** [May 15, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9339 "2015-05-15T21:50:40Z")

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That’s it! The music from my dream.

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**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9340 "2015-05-16T00:05:11Z")

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You are probably wondering why I keep appearing in your memories, John. It is because I have inserted myself into them.

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**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:** [May 16, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9341 "2015-05-16T04:17:00Z")

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I’ve forgotten the question.

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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:** [May 16, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9342 "2015-05-16T14:45:50Z")

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Oh, you are a fine one to talk! You have a guilt complex and amnesia and don’t know if you are going or coming from somewhere but Freud is hooey!

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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:** [May 16, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9343 "2015-05-16T19:07:16Z")

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Before Sigmund Freud, man believed that what he said and did were the products of his conscious will alone. But the great psychologist demonstrate the existence of another part of our mind, which functions in darkest secrecy and can even rule our lives. This is the story of Freud’s descent into a region almost as black as hell itself: Man’s unconscious, and how he let in the light.

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