# 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:** ![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 19, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14084 "2017-12-19T01:23:54Z")

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Shane. Shane! Come back! Bye, Shane.

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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 19, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14085 "2017-12-19T02:37:08Z")

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I want you to go upstairs … and _kill that boy_.

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14086 "2017-12-19T22:35:02Z")

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Go upstairs and bug your sister.

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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 20, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14087 "2017-12-20T00:10:31Z")

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Go beyond the oceans to the Alps…

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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:** [December 21, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14088 "2017-12-21T00:09:16Z")

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Maybe you can explain to these people here that I mean them no harm. Tell 'em it’s going to be a new place. It’s going to be a nice place to live. I’m the new judge. There will be law. There is going to be order, progress, civilization, peace… Above all, peace. And I don’t care who I have to kill to get it. Now go on, you tell 'em that.

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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 21, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14089 "2017-12-21T01:13:23Z")

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Of all the years you sat on that bench… all the people that stood before you, the leniency… the understanding, the free ride goes to Mark Blackwell? How do you explain that lapse in judgment?

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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 22, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14090 "2017-12-22T01:12:50Z")

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I wanna apologize for my action in court before. I want you to understand… whatever I said, I meant no disrespect to you. I respect you more than any other judge I ever faced, and I faced a lot of them.

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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 22, 2017, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14091 "2017-12-22T12:08:39Z")

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It’s been a very revealing ten seconds, Harold.

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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 22, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14092 "2017-12-22T14:34:01Z")

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Tell me, Harold, how many of these, eh, _suicides_ have you performed?

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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 22, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14093 "2017-12-22T15:10:11Z")

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I was impressed to see that she made proper use of the word “myriad” in her suicide note.

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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 22, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14094 "2017-12-22T18:30:14Z")

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If you deny what you know, or what you are, or where you are, you deny the simplest part of being alive, and then you die.

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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:** [December 22, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14095 "2017-12-22T19:44:39Z")

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Dying is easy. _Comedy_ is hard.

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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 22, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14096 "2017-12-22T21:38:36Z")

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Yelling anything at a comedian is considered heckling. Heckling doesn’t have to be negative.

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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 23, 2017, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14097 "2017-12-23T00:16:05Z")

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Statler: I like the movie fine so far.

Waldorf: It hasn’t started yet.

Statler: That’s what I like about it.

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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 23, 2017, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14098 "2017-12-23T00:37:20Z")

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From Fox Searchlight, five-time Academy Award winner Kirk Lazarus and MTV Movie Award Best Kiss winner Tobey Maguire. Winner of the Beijing Film Festival’s coveted Crying Monkey Award, “Satan’s Alley”.

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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 23, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14099 "2017-12-23T19:31:27Z")

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“Look, I might as well tell you now. He’s a monkey.”

“They all are.”

“A real monkey.”

“You should have seen my brother Gus.”

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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 24, 2017, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14100 "2017-12-24T06:23:49Z")

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Apes don’t read philosophy.

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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 24, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14101 "2017-12-24T13:09:30Z")

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Orangutan, Ma. Clyde’s an orangutan.

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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 25, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14102 "2017-12-25T01:23:48Z")

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I’m a spy. Clyde is a brain. He’s a think tank-type guy.

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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 25, 2017, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14103 "2017-12-25T04:58:40Z")

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Oh God, no, please don’t kill me. I’m not a spy. I’m nothing. I’m navel lint! I have to lie to women to get laid, and I don’t score much. I got a little dick, it’s pathetic!

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