# 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: [April 1, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16265 "2019-04-01T22:12:02Z")

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Oh look! They’ve been to Saturn. Hey, I’ve been to Saturn! Whoa. Sandworms. You hate 'em right? I hate 'em myself!

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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: [April 1, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16266 "2019-04-01T22:59:18Z")

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I am not malfunctioning–you are!

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### Author: ![LennieB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8dc957/32.png) [@LennieB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LennieB)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16267 "2019-04-01T23:35:31Z")

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I am putting myself to the best possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.

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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: [April 2, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16268 "2019-04-02T15:03:55Z")

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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: [April 2, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16269 "2019-04-02T17:34:29Z")

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I’m going to think outside the box.

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### 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: [April 2, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16270 "2019-04-02T18:34:27Z")

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No one lives forever, no one. But with advances in modern science and my high level income, it’s not crazy to think I can live to be 245, maybe 300. Heck, I just read in the newspaper that they put a pig heart in some guy from Russia. Do you know what that means?

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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: [April 2, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16271 "2019-04-02T18:47:00Z")

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Malkovich malkovich, Malkovich. Malkovich?

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### Author: ![LennieB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8dc957/32.png) [@LennieB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LennieB)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16272 "2019-04-02T19:57:24Z")

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Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

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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: [April 2, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16273 "2019-04-02T20:06:09Z")

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Fosse, Fosse, Fosse!

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### Author: ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2019, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16274 "2019-04-02T21:12:19Z")

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Let’s get this straight, I am not Nijinsky. I am not Marlon Brando. I am Mrs. Hunter’s little boy, Tony, song and dance man.

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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: [April 2, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16275 "2019-04-02T21:23:45Z")

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Honey, let me hit you with a couple of names. Yul Brynner is Clinton. Paul and Joanne as Tom and Lee! I know, I hope it has enough content for 'em. Who have I got for Alice? Oh, I know, Carly Simon. I mean the soundtrack album alone will pay for her clothes. Now, now don’t scream. Virna Lisi. No, darling, as me!

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### 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: [April 3, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16276 "2019-04-03T01:36:06Z")

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This is Cameron’s first nomination and he’s in extremely good company. Tonight he joins fellow best actor nominee Paul Newman for “Coot”, Clint Eastwood for “Codger”, Michael Douglas for “Primary Urges” and Steven Seagal for “Snowball in Hell”.

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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: [April 3, 2019, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16277 "2019-04-03T11:20:37Z")

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In every actor there lives a tiger, a pig, an ass, and a nightingale.

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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: [April 3, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16278 "2019-04-03T16:11:21Z")

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You must be part coon dog, 'cause I’ve been chased by the best of them, and son, you make ‘em look like they’re all runnin’ in slow motion. I just wanna say 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: [April 3, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16279 "2019-04-03T19:53:22Z")

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What? You didn’t see that coming?

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### Author: ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16280 "2019-04-03T20:59:08Z")

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.

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### 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: [April 3, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16281 "2019-04-03T22:32:31Z")

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People think it’s all about misery and desperation and death and all that shit which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn’t do it. After all, we’re not fucking stupid. At least, we’re not that fucking stupid.

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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: [April 3, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16282 "2019-04-03T23:06:25Z")

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Ok, I’ll come over and buff your body and put a nice glow to your cheeks.

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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: [April 3, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16283 "2019-04-03T23:56:26Z")

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It’s what you wear from ear to ear, and not from head to toe that matters.

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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: [April 4, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16284 "2019-04-04T14:52:02Z")

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You’ll dress only in attire specially sanctioned by MIB Special Services. You’ll conform to the identity we give you, eat where we tell you, live where we tell you. From now on, you’ll have no identifying marks of any kind.

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