# 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:** 747
**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 12, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14925 "2018-06-12T22:15:19Z")
I am the original ringtail roarer from the thunder ‘n lightnin’ country! I’m a real snorter and a head buster! I can out-run, out-jump, out-sing, out-swim, out-dance, out-shoot, out-eat, out-drink… Yeah, out-talk, out-cuss and out-fight anybody in the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers put together! ---
**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 13, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14926 "2018-06-13T14:05:36Z")
Your entrance was good. His was better. ---
**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 13, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14927 "2018-06-13T17:34:30Z")
You wanna be really great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you’re still smiling. ---
**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 13, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14928 "2018-06-13T18:14:03Z")
Why, I’m a failure 'cause I haven’t any brains. ---
**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 13, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14929 "2018-06-13T21:17:46Z")
Kiss the book, sign the oath, and you’re king. Easy. ---
**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 14, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14930 "2018-06-14T20:09:50Z")
Well, I’m alive. A fall brought back my memory. I’m a king now. ---
**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 14, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14931 "2018-06-14T20:45:47Z")
Mom, Dad, just so you don’t hear any wild rumors, I’m being indicted for fraud in Australia. ---
**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 14, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14932 "2018-06-14T21:45:48Z")
I think he was once somebody’s baby boy, and he had a mother and a father who loved him, and now there he is, half dead on a park bench, and where are his mother or his father, all his uncles now? ---
**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 14, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14933 "2018-06-14T21:52:49Z")
Just like your father… so human. ---
**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 15, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14934 "2018-06-15T14:57:09Z")
I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was. ---
**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 15, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14935 "2018-06-15T16:52:13Z")
No, I am your father. ---
**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 16, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14936 "2018-06-16T14:28:25Z")
Only a real man can raise his children. ---
**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 17, 2018, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14937 "2018-06-17T19:53:08Z")
I suppose having 19 kids is carrying it a bit too far, but if we had it to do over who would we skip… you? ---
**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 18, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14938 "2018-06-18T13:53:19Z")
Well, so far, you’ve given me nothing but a trail of collateral damage from Zurich to Paris. I don’t think I could do much worse. ---
**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 18, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14939 "2018-06-18T14:48:37Z")
So now I’m a spy for Uncle Sam, posing as a Frenchman, being paid by the Germans and the comedy of it is, no income tax. ---
**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 18, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14940 "2018-06-18T15:14:03Z")
Yeah one more thing, um… none of them wanna pay taxes again. Ever. ---
**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 18, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14941 "2018-06-18T23:31:49Z")
Fuck you. Pay me. ---
**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 19, 2018, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14942 "2018-06-19T00:21:51Z")
You couldn’t afford it. ---
**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 19, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14943 "2018-06-19T18:00:49Z")
“Having a rich friend is like drowning and your friend makes lifeboats.” “Only your friend gets very touchy if you say one word: lifeboat.” ---
**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 19, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/14944 "2018-06-19T19:17:13Z")
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