# 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:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10564 "2015-12-05T14:26:11Z")

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I look like I just called Mike Tyson a sissy and all you have to say is, “Hi”?

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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:** [December 5, 2015, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10565 "2015-12-05T14:31:29Z")

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Hey there, Hi there, Ho there!

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10566 "2015-12-05T15:06:41Z")

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Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s home from work we go…

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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:** [December 5, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10567 "2015-12-05T15:31:36Z")

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Good morning, and in case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!

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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:** [December 5, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10568 "2015-12-05T15:54:32Z")

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Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

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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:** [December 5, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10569 "2015-12-05T17:10:25Z")

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Sometimes I wish that you could just hit the sack and never wake up. If your favorite song never ended, or your best book never closed, if the emotions mustered from these things would just go on and on, who wouldn’t want to stay asleep? The guy who discovers that perpetual dream, he’s my man.

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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:** [December 5, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10570 "2015-12-05T17:59:04Z")

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If you eat them berries, you’ll go to sleep. You’ll never wake up again. They’re never-wake-up berries, you see?

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10571 "2015-12-06T00:22:20Z")

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“We… want you to pick some berries.”

“That’s it! Berries! Berries! Lots of berries!”

“But I picked berries yesterday.”

“Oh… we need more, dear.”

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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:** [December 6, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10572 "2015-12-06T03:33:25Z")

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Well, there won’t be any berries in the fruit salad now, so we all lose.

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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:** [December 6, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10573 "2015-12-06T19:01:41Z")

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Chuck! Chuck, it’s Marvin. Your cousin, _Marvin Berry_. You know that new sound you’re looking for? Well, listen to this!

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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:** [December 6, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10574 "2015-12-06T19:07:29Z")

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Can you hear it? The music. I can hear it everywhere. In the wind… in the air… in the light. It’s all around us.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10575 "2015-12-06T19:07:58Z")

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“Sounds like a… train.”

“Nuh-uh. These lines have been abandoned for… fifty years.”

“…Oh.”

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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:** [December 6, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10576 "2015-12-06T19:37:17Z")

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That was the all-time train dodge! Too cool! Vern, you were so scared you looked like that fat guy, Abbott Costello, when he saw the mummy.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10577 "2015-12-06T19:40:13Z")

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

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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:** [December 6, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10578 "2015-12-06T20:44:13Z")

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I don’t believe it. It’s that shitbox Dodge again!

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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:** [December 6, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10579 "2015-12-06T20:47:18Z")

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What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?

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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:** [December 6, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10580 "2015-12-06T22:32:04Z")

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Doesn’t it give you, like, a shudder of electricity… to be in the same room with me?

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10581 "2015-12-07T00:16:55Z")

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Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

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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:** [December 7, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10582 "2015-12-07T01:46:38Z")

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God does not play dice with the universe, but I will.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/10583 "2015-12-07T02:03:04Z")

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Enough! You are, all of you are beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature, and I will not be bullied by…

_SMASH_

Puny god.

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