# 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:** 574
**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 28, 2016, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11464 "2016-04-28T11:06:17Z")
Luke! I’m shutting the power down! ---
**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 28, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11465 "2016-04-28T16:36:19Z")
The traffic commissioner shall hear of this! ---
**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 28, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11466 "2016-04-28T17:22:29Z")
Ten thousand dollars for a taxi! ---
**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 28, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11467 "2016-04-28T18:46:55Z")
Well, how many cabbies do you know get you into an argument to save you money? ---
**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:** [April 28, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11468 "2016-04-28T18:48:47Z")
Of all the cabbies in L.A. I get Max, Sigmund Freud meets Dr. Ruth. ---
**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 28, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11469 "2016-04-28T23:28:39Z")
Roland thinks L.A. is a place for the brain-dead. He says, if you turned off the sprinklers, it would turn into a desert. But I think - I don’t know, it’s not what I expected. It’s a place where they’ve taken a desert and turned it into their dreams. I’ve seen a lot of L.A. and I think it’s also a place of secrets: secret houses, secret lives, secret pleasures. And no one is looking to the outside for verification that what they’re doing is all right. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11470 "2016-04-29T00:09:18Z")
Come to Los Angeles! The sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see. There are jobs aplenty, and land is cheap. Every working man can have his own house, and inside every house, a happy, all-American family. You can have all this, and who knows… you could even be discovered, become a movie star… or at least see one. Life is good in Los Angeles… it’s paradise on Earth." Ha ha ha ha. That’s what they tell you, anyway. ---
**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 29, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11471 "2016-04-29T00:19:09Z")
_They_ talk a lot, don’t they? ---
**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 29, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11472 "2016-04-29T00:47:41Z")
Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little, Cheep cheep cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more ---
**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:** [April 29, 2016, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11473 "2016-04-29T08:25:24Z")
You seem like somebody who likes to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It helps me figure out how full of shit they are. ---
**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 29, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11474 "2016-04-29T10:54:48Z")
Now, sir. We’ll talk, if you like. I’ll tell you right out, I am a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk. ---
**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 29, 2016, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11475 "2016-04-29T12:49:01Z")
He traveled all around the world, and everywhere he went, he’d use his word, and all would say, “There goes a clever gent!” ---
**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 29, 2016, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11476 "2016-04-29T13:30:17Z")
One day off the boat am I, with a job that’s nearly mine! 'Tis a job with an elegant millionaire, and his elegant family! Today I move from immigrant - to high society! ---
**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 29, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11477 "2016-04-29T13:47:56Z")
Yesterday I bought my first pair of American shoes. They were made in Italy. ---
**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 29, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11478 "2016-04-29T19:37:08Z")
We eat when we’re not hungry, drink when we’re not thirsty. We buy what we don’t need and throw away everything that’s useful. Why sell a man what he wants? Sell him what he doesn’t need! Pretend he has eight legs, two stomachs and money to burn. It’s wrong. Wrong! Wrong! ---
**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 1, 2016, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11479 "2016-05-01T12:37:25Z")
Guy with eight hands. Sounds hot. ---
**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 1, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11480 "2016-05-01T13:43:39Z")
We accept you! One of us! Gobble, gobble! ---
**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 1, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11481 "2016-05-01T15:21:15Z")
Hey, there’s a vicious animal in the hallway! ---
**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 1, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11482 "2016-05-01T15:31:29Z")
I speak over two thousand languages, including Dodo and Unicorn. ---
**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 1, 2016, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11483 "2016-05-01T17:32:01Z")
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