# 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:** ![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 26, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1761 "2012-09-26T00:12:00Z")

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Jim, we’ve got a problem. I got some blood work back from the lab. Charley Duke has the measles.

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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 26, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1762 "2012-09-26T00:12:55Z")

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He was alive when I buried him.

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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 26, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1763 "2012-09-26T00:16:07Z")

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I can cope with torture.

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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 26, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1764 "2012-09-26T00:18:20Z")

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You are alive… when they begin to eat you.

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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 26, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1765 "2012-09-26T00:21:52Z")

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Get some rest. If you haven’t got your health, then you haven’t got anything.

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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 26, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1766 "2012-09-26T01:51:54Z")

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Awww, he’s drunk!

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**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1767 "2012-09-26T18:13:42Z")

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I never told you, but you sound a little like Dr. Seuss when you’re drunk.

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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 26, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1768 "2012-09-26T18:24:33Z")

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You should not drink and bake.

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1769 "2012-09-26T22:39:52Z")

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I may be the worst thing in the world, but I carry it in front where you can see it.

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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 27, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1770 "2012-09-27T01:36:36Z")

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Keep your hands where I can see them, buddy.

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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 27, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1771 "2012-09-27T03:04:28Z")

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Oh, I see. I put… my hands… on… on my head.

_does_

Like this?

_rips his body off_

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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 27, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1772 "2012-09-27T03:57:27Z")

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Ow! That smarts!

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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 27, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1773 "2012-09-27T04:45:03Z")

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You think you know pain? He will make you long for something as sweet as pain.

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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 27, 2012, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1774 "2012-09-27T05:43:06Z")

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I’m not advising cruelty or brutality with no purpose. My point is that cruelty with purpose is not cruelty; it’s efficiency. Then a man will never disobey once he’s watched his mate’s backbone laid bare. He’ll see the flesh jump, hear the whistle of the whip for the rest of his life.

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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 27, 2012, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1775 "2012-09-27T06:55:52Z")

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Never start with the head; the victim gets all fuzzy, and he won’t feel the next thing you–

_WHOMP!_

…See?

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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 27, 2012, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1777 "2012-09-27T07:37:03Z")

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Well thank you, pal. The day I get outta prison, my own brother picks me up in a _police_ car!

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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 27, 2012, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1778 "2012-09-27T11:07:39Z")

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You ungrateful wretch! No one, not my finest enemy has spoken like you to me!

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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 27, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1779 "2012-09-27T13:09:59Z")

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You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.

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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 27, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1780 "2012-09-27T13:59:58Z")

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Yeah, you were smarter than me then and you’re smarter than me now. So don’t blame me for how your life turned out. It’s not my fault

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-movie-quotes/628882/1781 "2012-09-27T14:05:46Z")

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Dear kindly Judge, your Honor,  
My parents treat me rough.  
With all their marijuana,  
They won’t give me a puff.  
They didn’t wanna have me,  
But somehow I was had.  
Leapin’ lizards! That’s why I’m so bad!

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