# 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:** 744
**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:** [June 4, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14865 "2018-06-04T20:48:57Z")
Piss on you! I’m working for Mel Brooks! ---
**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:** [June 4, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14866 "2018-06-04T21:04:53Z")
Well, we were all working at pretty terrible jobs for some awful bosses and we just thought, if we ever got a chance to be our own bosses, that we’d do things differently. ---
**Author:** ![backsidejohnny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/backsidejohnny/32/280_2.png) [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14867 "2018-06-04T21:54:07Z")
The trick is to realize that you’re always doing what you want to do… always. Nobody’s making you do anything. Once you get that, you see that you’re free and that life is really just a series of choices. Nothing happens to you. You choose. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14868 "2018-06-04T23:29:05Z")
The time has come for you to make a choice, Mr. Anderson. Either you choose to be at your desk on time from this moment on, or you choose to find yourself another job. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2018, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14869 "2018-06-04T23:37:19Z")
I would prefer not to. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14870 "2018-06-05T01:59:25Z")
I like to watch. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14871 "2018-06-05T02:05:45Z")
Big Brother is watching. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14872 "2018-06-05T02:37:24Z")
You’re going to call off your rigorous investigation. You’re going to publicly state that there is no underground group. Or – these guys are going to take your balls. They’re going to send one to the New York Times, one to the LA Times press-release style. Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. _We guard you while you sleep._ Do not _fuck_ with us! ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14873 "2018-06-05T11:59:37Z")
Listen. I work for the CIA. I am not a spy. I just read books! We read everything that’s published in the world. And we… we feed the plots - dirty tricks, codes - into a computer, and the computer checks against actual CIA plans and operations. I look for leaks, I look for new ideas… We read adventures and novels and journals. I… I… Who’d invent a job like that? ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14874 "2018-06-05T19:09:16Z")
Big fat guy, I mean like orca fat. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14875 "2018-06-05T19:26:23Z")
The killer whale. He is a mammal with warm blood, found in every sea. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2018, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14876 "2018-06-06T12:19:55Z")
Ah, well, thank you for your advice, but I absolutely loathe swimming pools. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14877 "2018-06-06T15:29:08Z")
Sir- If we want to get the edge on the Soviets - and I know we can- we have to vivisect this thing. Take it apart. Learn how it works. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14878 "2018-06-06T16:45:25Z")
Living is the key to all knowledge. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14879 "2018-06-06T19:50:45Z")
Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14880 "2018-06-06T20:34:00Z")
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive ---
**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:** [June 6, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14881 "2018-06-06T20:40:22Z")
I’m not dead. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14882 "2018-06-06T22:05:15Z")
'Ere, he says he’s not 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:** [June 7, 2018, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14883 "2018-06-07T02:09:39Z")
I’m becoming something that never existed before. I’m becoming… Brundlefly. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2018, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14884 "2018-06-07T11:41:49Z")
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