# 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:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17105 "2019-11-10T03:12:31Z")

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Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There’s no crying! THERE’S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!

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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:** [November 10, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17106 "2019-11-10T16:04:41Z")

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Hey, Rexman! Hell of a situation we got here. Two on, two out, you guys trailing by one in the ninth. You got a chance to be a hero on national television… if you don’t blow it. By the way, I saw your wife at the Capri Lounge last night. Hell of a dancer. You must be very very proud. Oh, and that guy she was with? Oh, I’m sure he’s a close personal friend and all, but tell me, what was he doing wearing her panties on his head? [Rexman pops the ball straight up] Uh-oh, Rexy I don’t think this one’s got the distance.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17107 "2019-11-11T03:00:55Z")

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‘Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody’s ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I’m still standin’, I’m gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren’t just another bum from the neighborhood.

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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:** [November 11, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17108 "2019-11-11T03:44:11Z")

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Because you had the talent to become a great fighter, and instead of that, you became a leg-breaker for some cheap, second-rate loan shark!

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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:** [November 11, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17109 "2019-11-11T13:33:25Z")

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And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17110 "2019-11-11T14:46:03Z")

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Oh hidy-ho officer, we’ve had a doozy of a day. There we were minding our own business, just doing chores around the house, when kids started killing themselves all over my property.

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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:** [November 12, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17111 "2019-11-12T15:34:25Z")

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You’re not doing it on my beat!

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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:** [November 12, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17112 "2019-11-12T16:44:16Z")

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I’ve often thought that there should be beauty contests for the _insides_ of bodies.

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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:** [November 12, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17113 "2019-11-12T17:29:33Z")

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The interview is the single most important part of the pageant. It counts for 30 percent of your total score.

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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:** [November 13, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17114 "2019-11-13T17:13:09Z")

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You know what? Fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. You know, school, then college, then work, fuck that. And fuck the air force academy. If I wanna fly, I’ll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and fuck the rest.

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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:** [November 13, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17115 "2019-11-13T17:30:44Z")

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25 years of bitch and beauty queen and what do I get? Fired, they steal my life, they steal my beauty pageant.

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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:** [November 13, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17116 "2019-11-13T20:22:11Z")

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You’re not exactly walking out of here empty handed. You got your pension … and I’ll give you this month’s gas money.

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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:** [November 13, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17117 "2019-11-13T21:40:18Z")

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Life is long, and when you’ve lived so many years, and you do things, and you don’t think when you’re doing them, that they matter all that much. And then one day you wake up and you realize that you managed quite a bit, and so much so that you can’t even remember all of it.

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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:** [November 14, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17118 "2019-11-14T22:43:02Z")

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I am, I am, I am greater than thou art! You don’t know half the things that I forgot.

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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:** [November 15, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17119 "2019-11-15T20:39:09Z")

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Well, she got that magna cum laude pussy on her that done fried up your brain!

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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:** [November 16, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17120 "2019-11-16T13:51:06Z")

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What, we’re going to quibble over fine points?

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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:** [November 16, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17121 "2019-11-16T18:19:00Z")

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She negotiates everything like a goddamn Hollywood agent. Christina, eat your lunch. You are not getting up from this table until you have finished that meat.

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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:** [November 17, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17122 "2019-11-17T14:06:34Z")

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It’s only a wafer-thin mint.

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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:** [November 17, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17123 "2019-11-17T20:07:57Z")

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Just one… and two more. My beautiful little dolls.

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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:** [November 17, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17124 "2019-11-17T22:38:02Z")

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Ya know, I can remember every toy I had as a kid.

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