# 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:** 498
**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:** [September 8, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9944 "2015-09-08T19:00:56Z")
I don’t suppose I could convince you to come up here and fight like a spider. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9945 "2015-09-08T19:09:41Z")
All right, shithead. I haven’t been in a fight since I was in 5th grade, but I beat the shit out of that kid, so now I’m going to beat the shit out of you. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9946 "2015-09-08T19:20:03Z")
It’s catching isn’t it, violence. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9947 "2015-09-09T04:26:10Z")
You know I’m not a violent person. But I would like to hold them down and skate over their throats. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9948 "2015-09-09T12:47:41Z")
It’s the skating isn’t it? It’s that insane disco music thing! ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9949 "2015-09-09T14:25:41Z")
The 70s are dead and gone. The 80s are going to be something wonderfully new and different, and so am I. The 70s are dead and gone. The 80s are going to be something wonderfully new and different, and so am I. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9950 "2015-09-09T14:34:18Z")
In short, there’s simply not A more congenial spot For happily-ever-aftering than here In Camelot. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9951 "2015-09-09T14:40:27Z")
Comicus: Have you heard of this new sect, the Christians? They are a laugh riot! First of all, they are so poor… Swiftus: How poor are they? Comicus: Thank you! They are so poor… that they only have _one_ God! ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9952 "2015-09-09T16:40:08Z")
Is - is this a joke? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9953 "2015-09-09T16:42:22Z")
Why … so … serious? ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9954 "2015-09-09T16:42:31Z")
I heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Life seems harsh, and cruel. Says he feels all alone in threatening world. Doctor says: “Treatment is simple. The great clown - Pagliacci - is in town. Go see him. That should pick you up.” Man bursts into tears. “But doctor…” he says “I am Pagliacci.” Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9955 "2015-09-09T16:56:58Z")
Well, you know, they say we all gonna be dyin’ some day. I believe it, too. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9956 "2015-09-09T17:28:07Z")
This is the life we chose, the life we lead. And there is only one guarantee: none of us will see heaven. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9957 "2015-09-09T17:38:14Z")
We reached the Mediterranean. I wanted those waters to be blue, but they were black. Night-time waters. And how I suffered then, straining to recall the color that in my youth I took for granted. We searched village after village, ruin after ruin, country after country. And always we found nothing. I began to believe we were the only ones. There was a strange comfort in that thought. For what could the damned really have to say to the damned? ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9958 "2015-09-09T18:44:12Z")
Unusual weather we’re having, ain’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9959 "2015-09-09T18:51:28Z")
He may have had the weather gauge, but we had the weather gods. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9960 "2015-09-09T18:56:55Z")
So many women, and all these transformations and disguises he invents in order to seduce them. Sometimes a shower of gold, sometimes a bull or a swan. Why, once he even tried to ravish me disguised as a cuttlefish. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9961 "2015-09-09T18:58:28Z")
He turned me into a newt! ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9962 "2015-09-09T20:34:17Z")
Looking good, Billy Ray! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/9963 "2015-09-09T21:51:45Z")
I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=497) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=499)