# 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:** 555
**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:** [February 23, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11084 "2016-02-23T18:39:25Z")
Whoever sent that message, he sure believes in Hell. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11085 "2016-02-23T19:15:26Z")
Well, I gotta tell you: I’d be very, very careful who you talk to about that, because the person who wrote that is dangerous. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11086 "2016-02-23T19:43:15Z")
Master Shakespeare? ---
**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:** [February 23, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11087 "2016-02-23T20:14:23Z")
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:** ![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:** [February 24, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11088 "2016-02-24T01:38:15Z")
I was a stand-up tomato: a juicy, sexy, beefsteak tomato. Nobody does vegetables like me. I did an evening of vegetables off-Broadway. I did the best tomato, the best cucumber… I did an endive salad that knocked the critics on their ass. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2016, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11089 "2016-02-24T11:50:50Z")
Sawyer, you listen to me, and you listen hard. Two hundred people, two hundred jobs, two hundred thousand dollars, five weeks of grind and blood and sweat depend upon you. It’s the lives of all these people who’ve worked with you. You’ve got to go on, and you’ve got to give and give and give. They’ve got to like you. Got to. Do you understand? You can’t fall down. You can’t because your future’s in it, my future and everything all of us have is staked on you. All right, now I’m through, but you keep your feet on the ground and your head on those shoulders of yours and go out, and Sawyer, you’re going out a youngster but you’ve got to come back a star! ---
**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:** [February 24, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11090 "2016-02-24T12:22:25Z")
It’s not like we’re hardened criminals here. We’re in show business. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11091 "2016-02-24T14:26:02Z")
It’s not show friends. It’s show business. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11092 "2016-02-25T00:04:28Z")
“I have to warn you, I’ve heard relationships based on intense experiences never work.” “OK, we’ll have to base it on sex then.” ---
**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:** [February 25, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11093 "2016-02-25T00:51:16Z")
Well, on Earth, for centuries, people haven’t made love unless their psychocardiogram readings were in perfect compliments. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11094 "2016-02-25T19:20:49Z")
When the electromagnetic of the he-male, meets the electromagnetic of the female, if right away she should say, “This is the male!” It’s a chemical reaction, that’s all. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11095 "2016-02-25T19:26:36Z")
Yes, it is. Now suck my cock! ---
**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:** [February 25, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11096 "2016-02-25T20:00:19Z")
Don’t ever write a check with your mouth you can’t cash with your ass. Oh, and one more thing… don’t wake the mother. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11097 "2016-02-25T20:31:24Z")
I’m gonna hit you so hard that when you wake up your clothes will be out of style! ---
**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:** [February 25, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11098 "2016-02-25T21:06:12Z")
Welcome to Fight Club. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11099 "2016-02-26T00:37:12Z")
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass…and I’m all out of bubble gum. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11100 "2016-02-26T00:53:48Z")
Dave? What the fuck are you doing? Why are you dressed as Kick-Ass? ---
**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:** [February 26, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11101 "2016-02-26T01:35:05Z")
You were hinting around about clothes. That happens to be a very important topic to me, Mr. Banks. Clothes make the man. I believe that. You say to me you want to go shopping, you want to buy clothes, but you don’t know what kind. You leave that hanging in the air, like I’m going to fill in the blank, that to me is like asking me who you are, and I don’t know who you are. I don’t want to know. It’s taken me my whole life to find out who _I_ am, and I’m _tired_ now, you hear what I’m saying? ---
**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:** [February 26, 2016, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11102 "2016-02-26T12:04:43Z")
I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man! ---
**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:** [February 26, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11103 "2016-02-26T14:42:55Z")
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