# 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:** 740
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14785 "2018-05-16T22:22:18Z")
I would like at this moment to announce that I will be retiring from this program in two weeks’ time because of poor ratings. Since this show is the only thing I had going for me in my life, I’ve decided to kill myself. I’m going to blow my brains out right on this program a week from today. So tune in next Tuesday. That should give the public relations people a week to promote the show. You ought to get a hell of a rating out of that. 50 share, easy. ---
**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 17, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14786 "2018-05-17T03:27:20Z")
There’s this beautiful bridge by my house. I’m going to jump off it. ---
**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 17, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14787 "2018-05-17T11:17:58Z")
Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you’ll understand. Sometimes when I’m driving… on the road at night… I see two headlights coming toward me. Fast. I have this sudden impulse to turn the wheel quickly, head-on into the oncoming car. I can anticipate the explosion. The sound of shattering glass. The… flames rising out of the flowing gasoline. ---
**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 17, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14788 "2018-05-17T17:28:18Z")
Remember driving is a freedom. I wish you to enjoy every kind of freedom… As long as you don’t hurt someone. You promise me? ---
**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 17, 2018, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14789 "2018-05-17T18:44:11Z")
Oh, I’ve given you no word to keep, Admiral. In my judgment, you simply have no alternative. ---
**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 17, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14790 "2018-05-17T18:57:21Z")
Words. Words. They’re all we have to go on. ---
**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 18, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14791 "2018-05-18T01:06:23Z")
A few frilly words and you’re counting ceiling tiles. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14792 "2018-05-18T01:20:32Z")
Alvy: You seem sorta distant. Annie: Let’s just do it, all right? [business] Alvy: Is it my imagination or are you just going through the motions? Other Annie: Do you remember where I put my drawing pad? While you two are doing that, I think I’m gonna do some drawing. ---
**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 18, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14793 "2018-05-18T20:57:49Z")
I enjoy drawing. It’s a deeply ingrained habit. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14794 "2018-05-19T00:39:55Z")
But look at me! I’m a nun! I’m a - I’m a penguin! ---
**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 19, 2018, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14795 "2018-05-19T01:44:26Z")
It looks bad, Batman. This brassy bird has us buffaloed. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14796 "2018-05-19T03:18:38Z")
– Heavy. What is it? – The stuff that dreams are made of. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14797 "2018-05-19T05:31:47Z")
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little lives are rounded with a sleep ---
**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 19, 2018, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14798 "2018-05-19T12:05:26Z")
Sleep no more! Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14799 "2018-05-19T16:35:16Z")
You people shut the hell up! I got a wife in an oxygen tent tryin’ to sleep! ---
**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 19, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14800 "2018-05-19T18:17:02Z")
Must be hard to concentrate on this case after three days without sleep. ---
**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 19, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14801 "2018-05-19T18:26:00Z")
We belong dead. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14802 "2018-05-19T19:04:57Z")
…Prepare To see the life as lively mock’d as ever Still sleep mock’d death: behold, and say 'tis well. - Hey, every Shakespeare play has been filmed… \* ] ---
**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 19, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14803 "2018-05-19T19:06:38Z")
Deaths for all ages and occasions! Deaths of kings, and princes, and… nobodies. ---
**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 19, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14804 "2018-05-19T19:32:27Z")
Rosencrantz: Did you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it? Guildenstern: No. Rosencrantz: Nor do I, really. It’s silly to be depressed by it. I mean, one thinks of it like being alive in a box. One keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn’t it? I mean, you’d never _know_ you were in a box, would you? It would be just like you were asleep in a box. Not that I’d like to sleep in a box, mind you. Not without any air. You’d wake up dead for a start, and then where would you be? In a box. That’s the bit I don’t like, frankly. That’s why I don’t think of it. Because you’d be helpless, wouldn’t you? Stuffed in a box like that. I mean, you’d be in there forever, even taking into account the fact that you’re dead. It isn’t a pleasant thought. Especially if you’re dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off, “I’m going to stuff you in this box. Now, would you rather be alive or dead?” naturally, you’d prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You’d have a chance, at least. You could lie there thinking, “Well, at least I’m not dead. In a minute somebody is going to bang on the lid, and tell me to come out.” [bangs on lid] Rosencrantz: “Hey you! What’s your name? Come out of there!” Guildenstern: [long pause] I think I’m going to kill you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=739) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882.md?page=741)