# 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:** ![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 4, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11504 "2016-05-04T13:05:38Z")

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Do you have anything light?

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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 4, 2016, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11505 "2016-05-04T13:08:16Z")

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The rabbi is busy.

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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 4, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11506 "2016-05-04T13:17:33Z")

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I’m 12 years old. I run into a Synagogue. I ask the Rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life… But, he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don’t understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me six hundred dollars for Hebrew lessons.

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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 4, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11507 "2016-05-04T13:23:24Z")

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That’s what I like about you, Tevye. You’re always joking.

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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2016, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11508 "2016-05-05T03:50:25Z")

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Traditions, traditions. Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as… as… as a fiddler on the roof!

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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 6, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11509 "2016-05-06T00:00:00Z")

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Letting me go to America is a really big step for my mum and dad. I don’t know how they’d survive if I told them about you too.

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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 6, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11510 "2016-05-06T00:26:53Z")

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You don’t ask for help in America. You demand it. Trick-or-treat: you don’t ask, you threaten.

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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 6, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11511 "2016-05-06T01:13:29Z")

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I demand to have some booze!

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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 6, 2016, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11512 "2016-05-06T11:25:40Z")

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I know, but I don’t drink, remember? I don’t drink anymore?

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**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:** [May 6, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11513 "2016-05-06T17:45:53Z")

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Well, there’s some people that rarely touch it, but it touches them often.

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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 6, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11514 "2016-05-06T18:08:37Z")

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Lovers are very special people. They’re the luckiest people in the world.

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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 6, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11515 "2016-05-06T18:08:40Z")

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Love is never having to say you’re sorry.

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**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:** [May 6, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11516 "2016-05-06T19:08:28Z")

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Love. You can learn all the math in the ‘Verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don’t love, she’ll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she’s hurtin’ 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.

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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 6, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11517 "2016-05-06T20:50:55Z")

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At some point, everything’s gonna go south on you… everything’s going to go south and you’re going to say, this is it. This is how I end. Now you can either accept that, or you can get to work. That’s all it is. You just begin. You do the math. You solve one problem… and you solve the next one… and then the next. And If you solve enough problems, you get to come home.

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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:** [May 7, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11518 "2016-05-07T18:03:29Z")

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Son of a bitch ball, why don’t you just GO HOME?! That’s your HOME! Are you too good for your home?! Answer me! Suck my white ass, 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 7, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11519 "2016-05-07T19:42:25Z")

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Wilson! Wilson! I’m sorry!!

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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:** [May 7, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11520 "2016-05-07T19:56:29Z")

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I was ignorant, and irresponsible, and small-minded.

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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 7, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11521 "2016-05-07T21:12:28Z")

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We may be small but heaven help anyone who thinks he might squish us.

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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 7, 2016, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11522 "2016-05-07T21:44:07Z")

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You have our Papa. Prepare to get SMURFED!

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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 8, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/11523 "2016-05-08T18:26:40Z")

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I’m sorry, Papa.

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