# 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: ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16745 "2019-08-03T21:10:10Z")

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“You never told me you were a princess!”

“You didn’t ask.”

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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: [August 3, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16746 "2019-08-03T22:53:59Z")

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If you wear a dress and have an animal sidekick, you’re a princess.

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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: [August 4, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16747 "2019-08-04T14:05:38Z")

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Then stop bossing me around!

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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: [August 4, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16748 "2019-08-04T14:07:10Z")

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Mother knows best.

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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: [August 4, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16749 "2019-08-04T19:36:40Z")

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“God couldn’t be everywhere so that is why he invented mothers.”

“What? That was on a Hallmark card we gave you.”

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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: [August 5, 2019, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16750 "2019-08-05T22:58:41Z")

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A boy’s best friend is his mother.

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### Author: ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16751 "2019-08-05T23:33:28Z")

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She’s my sister and my daughter!

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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: [August 6, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16752 "2019-08-06T18:33:05Z")

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When I told you to call me that, I wanted you to mean it.

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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: [August 6, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16753 "2019-08-06T18:50:10Z")

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Fletch F. Fletch.

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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: [August 6, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16754 "2019-08-06T21:45:20Z")

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Do you ever have deja vu, Mrs. Lancaster?

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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: [August 7, 2019, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16755 "2019-08-07T03:16:05Z")

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A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.

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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: [August 7, 2019, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16756 "2019-08-07T11:11:51Z")

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No one wants to know about conspiracy any more!

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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: [August 7, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16757 "2019-08-07T12:16:05Z")

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Stop the presses!

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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: [August 7, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16758 "2019-08-07T16:05:29Z")

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Now look. The Post: “It Flies.” The News: “Look, Ma, No Wires.” The Times: “Blue Bomb Buzzes Metropolis.” The Planet. We’re sitting on top of the story of the century here! I want the name of this flying whatchamacallit to go with the Daily Planet like bacon and eggs, franks and beans, death and taxes, politics and corruption.

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### Author: ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16759 "2019-08-07T18:27:47Z")

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The newspapers are gonna put their shoulders to the wheel. They got to impress on these Bolsheviks that a death warrant for Earl Williams is a death warrant for every bomb-throwing, unAmerican, Red in this town!

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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: [August 7, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16760 "2019-08-07T19:27:29Z")

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Ken, I don’t want to print that you were in Sally’s apartment… I just want to know what you said in Sally’s apartment.

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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: [August 8, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16761 "2019-08-08T12:47:50Z")

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Divine decadence, darling!

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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: [August 8, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16762 "2019-08-08T15:21:55Z")

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It’s good to be the king.

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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: [August 8, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16763 "2019-08-08T21:40:14Z")

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I am the King. I tell, I am not told. I am the verb, sir, not the object.

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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: [August 8, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/16764 "2019-08-08T23:06:46Z")

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In the past, all a King had to do was look respectable in uniform and not fall off his horse. Now we must invade people’s homes and ingratiate ourselves with them. This family’s been reduced to those lowest, basest of all creatures. We’ve become actors!

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