# 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 25, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14104 "2017-12-25T16:37:12Z")

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Yes, it’s true. This man has no dick.

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**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14105 "2017-12-25T19:11:26Z")

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This guy’s a fucking gorilla!

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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, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14106 "2017-12-25T19:58:45Z")

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Listen, I don’t know whether you’re there or not. Maybe you just clean carpets. If you do, you’re lucky – you’re gonna live a long, happy life. But if you other guys exist and you’re picking this up – forget about the Army of The Twelve Monkeys, they didn’t do it. It was a mistake. Someone else did it. The Army of The Twelve Monkeys are just dumb kids playing revolutionaries. It was someone else. I’ve done my job. I did what you wanted. Good luck. I’m not coming back!

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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, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14107 "2017-12-25T23:16:38Z")

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I let him think I’m staying in the suite, not cleaning it. I’m the maid, Ty.

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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 26, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14108 "2017-12-26T18:43:12Z")

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He’s still David Larrabee, and you’re still the chauffeur’s daughter, and you’re still reaching for the moon.

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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 26, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14109 "2017-12-26T18:55:43Z")

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Hello, Mr. Werthan? Yeah, it’s me. Guess where I’m at? I jus’ finished drivin’ yo mama to da store! Oh, yeah, she flap around some, but she’s all right, she in da store. Oh, Lord, she jus’ looked out da window an’ seen me on da phone, prob’ly gonna throw a fit right there at da checkout. You sho’ right about that! Only took me six days - same time it took the Lord to make 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:** [December 26, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14110 "2017-12-26T20:05:25Z")

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Will the child be a nuisance? It’s an 11 hour flight! Jolly good! I hope we crash!

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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 26, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14111 "2017-12-26T21:26:15Z")

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Ladies and gentlemen, I’m sorry to interrupt, but we’ve got a first to report. It seems our aircraft is big enough to lose a child in. Her name is Julia Pratt, six years old, she is wearing a navy blue jumper. If she’s anywhere near you or perhaps playing with one of your kids, please press the call button now.

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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 28, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14112 "2017-12-28T01:09:32Z")

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A little girl! Where is she?

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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 28, 2017, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14113 "2017-12-28T12:08:49Z")

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Thank heaven for little girls  
They grow up in  
The most delightful way.

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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 28, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14114 "2017-12-28T19:37:35Z")

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Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina.

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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 28, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14115 "2017-12-28T23:20:30Z")

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The commissar has good powers of observation.

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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 29, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14116 "2017-12-29T00:38:03Z")

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He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.

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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 29, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14117 "2017-12-29T21:22:43Z")

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You don’t think he would try to flatline without us, do you?

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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 29, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14118 "2017-12-29T22:09:22Z")

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He don’t know me very well, do he?

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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 30, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14119 "2017-12-30T00:05:32Z")

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Wait a minute! I know you, you’re Kareem Abdul-Jabar. You play basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers.

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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 30, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14120 "2017-12-30T03:29:25Z")

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I tought I taw - I did! I did! I did tee Michael Jordan!

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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 31, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14121 "2017-12-31T01:09:35Z")

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You could’ve come and seen him. They don’t charge you for that.

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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 31, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14122 "2017-12-31T15:57:59Z")

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You clearly have a flair for show business.

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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 31, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14123 "2017-12-31T19:31:53Z")

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You know what, Stan? If you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don’t you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?

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