# 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:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1581 "2012-09-16T06:23:11Z")

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I had to come all the way from the highway and byways of Tallahassee, Florida to MotorCity, Detroit to find my true love. If you gave me a million years to ponder, I would never have guessed that true romance and Detroit would ever go together.

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**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:** [September 16, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1582 "2012-09-16T07:23:25Z")

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Was Wisconsin _really_ that bad?

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1583 "2012-09-16T09:46:25Z")

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Where the hell are you from anyway, private?

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1584 "2012-09-16T12:03:33Z")

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I’m from the United States of kiss-my-ass.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1585 "2012-09-16T12:22:26Z")

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We’re Americans, with a capital ‘A’, huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1586 "2012-09-16T16:33:16Z")

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America, fuck yeah!

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IhnUgAaea4M/hqdefault.jpg "America fuck yeah-team america") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M)

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1587 "2012-09-16T17:28:29Z")

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I have a cousin in America.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1588 "2012-09-16T20:18:40Z")

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I ain’t your cousin you rat motherfucker.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1589 "2012-09-16T20:50:05Z")

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What do you want from me? Good shot. Fuckin’ rat anyway. His family’s all rats. He’ll grow up to be a rat.

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1590 "2012-09-16T21:57:22Z")

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If a rat were to scamper through your front door right now, would you greet it with hostility?

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1591 "2012-09-17T00:08:52Z")

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Well, I’ll tell you something about that fire, a lot of things went wrong. The door, called the hatch? They couldn’t get it open when they needed to get out, that was one thing. Well, a lot of things went wrong.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1592 "2012-09-17T02:10:47Z")

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Did it look at you? Did the fire look at you? It did. Whoa. Wow. Our worlds aren’t that far apart after all, are they? So, whoever is doing this knows the animal well, doesn’t he? He knows him real well, but he won’t let him loose. He won’t let him have any fun, so he does not love him. Now who doesn’t love fire, and is around trychtichlorate all day long?

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1593 "2012-09-17T02:14:17Z")

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First principles, Clarice. Simplicity.

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**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1594 "2012-09-17T02:28:08Z")

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PROSTITUTION! But what does that mean really? Sometimes it helps to understand a word if you break it down, so let’s do that now shall we? Pros… it doesn’t mean anything, you can forget about that… Tit, I think we all know what that means, Tu, two tit and TION of course, from the Latin to shun… to say uh-uh no thank you anyway I don’t want it, to push away… it doesn’t even belong in this word really.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1595 "2012-09-17T02:35:54Z")

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Do you admit the Brazilian prostitutes were a mistake? And that it would have been much better if they’d not turned out to be men?

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1596 "2012-09-17T03:27:33Z")

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This is Natalya. She is my sister. She is number four prostitute in all of Kazakhstan. Nice!

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1597 "2012-09-17T04:05:12Z")

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A guy on the other end of the line says, we’ve got this guy’s little girl, if you don’t give him all your money, we’re gonna kill her.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1598 "2012-09-17T10:56:51Z")

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And shit… man, she kidnapped herself. Well sure, man. Look at it… a young trophy wife, in the parlance of our times, you know, and she, uh, uh, owes money all over town, including to known pornographers, and that’s cool… that’s, that’s cool, I’m, I’m saying, she needs money, man. And of course they’re going to say that they didn’t get it, because… she wants more, man! She’s got to feed the monkey, I mean uh… hasn’t that ever occurred to you, man? Sir?

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1599 "2012-09-17T12:40:36Z")

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Having an affair is nothing like taking a pottery class.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1600 "2012-09-17T14:14:36Z")

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I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.

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