# 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:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1301 "2012-09-01T02:34:46Z")

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All I want is to go the distance.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1302 "2012-09-01T03:00:56Z")

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Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1303 "2012-09-01T03:38:28Z")

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That’s crazy; we can’t be… we are about to run over our own tow line!

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1304 "2012-09-01T03:40:35Z")

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Captain, you’re relieved!

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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:** [September 1, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1305 "2012-09-01T03:41:58Z")

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Some people never _go_ crazy. What terrible lives they must lead.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1306 "2012-09-01T03:57:17Z")

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You have every right to make an ass of yourself!

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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:** [September 1, 2012, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1307 "2012-09-01T06:07:14Z")

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I will _make_ it legal.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1308 "2012-09-01T16:43:05Z")

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You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that… but you have no right to judge me. It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror… Horror has a face… and you must make a friend of horror.

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1309 "2012-09-01T19:52:59Z")

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Sorry to interrupt your recreation, fellows, but it is time for Sgt. Pinback to feed the alien.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1310 "2012-09-01T20:03:41Z")

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Feed me, Seymour!

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1311 "2012-09-01T21:03:46Z")

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Cause if you feed me, Seymour  
I can grow up big and strong.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1312 "2012-09-02T01:05:56Z")

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That’s _not_ gonna happen.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1313 "2012-09-02T02:02:37Z")

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This is fate we’re talking about. And if fate works at all, it works because people think that THIS TIME, it isn’t going to happen!

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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:** [September 2, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1314 "2012-09-02T02:18:51Z")

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“Half of everything is luck.” “And the other half?” “Fate.”

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1315 "2012-09-02T03:31:25Z")

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Hey! Hey, you’re Jim Lovell, aren’t you? Ha, ha! Hey, lucky thirteen! Right on!

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1316 "2012-09-02T05:10:05Z")

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What are you trying to do, scare me? You sound like my mother. We’ve known each other for a long time. I don’t believe in magic, a lot of superstitious hocus pocus. I’m going after a find of incredible historical significance, you’re talking about the boogie man. Besides, you know what a cautious fellow I am.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1317 "2012-09-02T16:07:31Z")

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Are you talkin’ to _me?_

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1318 "2012-09-02T16:42:04Z")

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They sit around the rest of their lives talking about the glory days when they were seventeen years old.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1319 "2012-09-02T23:05:40Z")

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All I’m saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life… remind me to kill myself.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1320 "2012-09-02T23:11:57Z")

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You’re not gonna kill yourself. I’ll kill you if you kill yourself.

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