# 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:** ![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:** [January 13, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17287 "2020-01-13T21:07:52Z")

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_Mau! Mau! Didi mau!_

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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:** [January 14, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17288 "2020-01-14T17:29:45Z")

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Send the message: “Tora! Tora! Tora!”

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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:** [January 14, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17289 "2020-01-14T17:54:17Z")

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Just a moment … Just a moment … I’ve just picked up a fault in the AE-35 unit. It’s going to go 100% failure within 72 hours.

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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:** [January 15, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17290 "2020-01-15T20:15:40Z")

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Let’s agree on one thing. Nothing has existed before this moment. The future begins now.

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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:** [January 17, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17291 "2020-01-17T14:02:14Z")

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It can be very hard in the beginning. Maybe one of you does something terrible, and that might be the hardest to get used to.

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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:** [January 17, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17292 "2020-01-17T14:30:06Z")

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Count Dracula : You were born in the wrong time, Cindy Sondheim. In the other age things were simpler, less complicated. Do you know how many women had nervous breakdowns in the fourteenth century?

Cindy Sondheim : No.

Count Dracula : Three.

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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:** [January 17, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17293 "2020-01-17T16:44:54Z")

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Three tiny puncture marks on her throat…

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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:** [January 17, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17294 "2020-01-17T17:20:12Z")

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Put him in a straitjacket and give him an enema! Wait, give him an enema FIRST, then put him in a straitjacket!

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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:** [January 17, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17295 "2020-01-17T17:49:40Z")

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Okay. This one goes in your mouth… This one’s for your ear… And… this one goes in your butt.

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17296 "2020-01-18T12:13:27Z")

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Relax. I’m a doctor.

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**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17297 "2020-01-18T13:01:21Z")

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“I _am_ a doctor!”  
“You _need_ a doctor!”

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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:** [January 18, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17298 "2020-01-18T16:07:30Z")

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**Dr. Imhaus** Doctor.  
**Austin Millbarge** Doctor.  
**Dr. Imhaus** Doctor.  
**Emmett Fitz-Hume** Doctor.  
_[Imhaus exits]_  
**Dr. Marston** Doctor.  
**Austin Millbarge** Doctor.  
**Dr. Marston** Doctor.  
**Emmett Fitz-Hume** Doctor.  
_[Marston exits]_  
**Karen Boyer** Doctor.  
**Austin Millbarge** Doctor.  
**Karen Boyer** Doctor.  
**Emmett Fitz-Hume** _[amorously]_ Doctor!  
_[Boyer exits]_  
**Jerry Hadley** Doctor.  
**Austin Millbarge** Doctor.  
**Jerry Hadley** Doctor.  
**Emmett Fitz-Hume** Doctor.  
_[Hadley exits]_  
**Austin Millbarge** _We’re not doctors!_

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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:** [January 18, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17299 "2020-01-18T16:22:08Z")

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Dr. Scott!

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**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17300 "2020-01-18T16:54:14Z")

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Or should I say… _Von_ Scott.

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17301 "2020-01-18T16:57:38Z")

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Just what, exactly, are you implying?

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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:** [January 18, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17302 "2020-01-18T22:27:41Z")

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“He’s just a boy.”

“And I’m just an Austrian.”

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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:** [January 20, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17303 "2020-01-20T00:04:13Z")

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A wise man can learn more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

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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:** [January 20, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17304 "2020-01-20T00:47:37Z")

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A man who face you he is enemy. Enemy deserve no mercy.

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**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:** [January 20, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17305 "2020-01-20T02:56:26Z")

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And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you.

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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:** [January 21, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/17306 "2020-01-21T03:14:28Z")

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The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

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