# The 'Name that movie' quote game!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 27, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165 "2001-09-27T19:17:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hekcorps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/87869e/32.png) [@Hekcorps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hekcorps)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/1 "2001-09-27T19:17:24Z")

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Man1: “We have a saying in my country -”  
Man2: “I’m sure you do…”  
Man1: “The saying is: The museum is closed at five o’clock, you go the next morning at nine.”

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Man: “Get off. the nuclear. weapon.”

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Woman: “Your bishop is exposed.”  
Man: “It’s these pants. I’m used to a fuller cut.”

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Man1: “Good news sir! When the press heard about the assasination attempt, you rose 15 points in the polls!”  
President: “Ahh… that’s good!”  
Man1: “Of course, when word got out that you survived, they took a slight dip, but…”

Who’s first?

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/2 "2001-09-27T19:40:17Z")

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_“…nuclear weapon…”_: “Broken Arrow”, said by Vic Deakins (John Travolta)

_“Your [bishop is] exposed”_: “Naked Gun 33 1/3”, said by Tanya and Frank Drebin (Anna Nicole Smith and Leslie Nielson)

_“…assassination…”_: Is it “Canadian Bacon”, with Alan Alda as POTUS.

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/3 "2001-09-27T19:51:24Z")

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_Man (beating up a much larger man)_: Don’t call me “Tiny”.

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_Woman to condescending co-worker_: I am in a dress, I have gel in my hair, I haven’t slept all night, I’m starved, AND I’m armed! Don’t MESS with me!

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_Woman_: All of you! You all killed him! And my brother, and Riff. Not with bullets, or guns, with hate. Well now I can kill, too, because now I have hate!

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_Man (on phone. Also the only spoken word in the movie)_: No!

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**Author:** ![rushtopher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47774/32.png) [@rushtopher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rushtopher)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/4 "2001-09-27T19:56:04Z")

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> Man (on phone. Also the only spoken word in the movie): No!

Marcel Marceau (sp?) in Silent Movie.  
“Dogs and Cats living together, mass hysteria!”

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**Author:** ![Hekcorps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/87869e/32.png) [@Hekcorps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hekcorps)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/5 "2001-09-27T19:57:42Z")

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> \*Originally posted by AWB \*  
> **_"…nuclear weapon…"_: “Broken Arrow”, said by Vic Deakins (John Travolta)**

That wasn’t the one I was thinking of, but that line could have been in more than one movie, possibly.

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> **_"Your [bishop is] exposed"_: “Naked Gun 33 1/3”, said by Tanya and Frank Drebin (Anna Nicole Smith and Leslie Nielson)**

CORRECT.

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> \*\*_"…assassination…"_: Is it “Canadian Bacon”, with Alan Alda as POTUS. \*\*

CORRECT.

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Man: “You wanna shake hands with the devil, that’s fine with me, I just wanna make sure you do it in Hell.”

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/6 "2001-09-27T19:58:00Z")

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> \*Originally posted by AWB \*
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> _Woman_: All of you! You all killed him! And my brother, and Riff. Not with bullets, or guns, with hate. Well now I can kill, too, because now I have hate!
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I’ll take the easy one for $500, Alex: Who is Natalie Woods as Maria in West Side Story.

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**Author:** ![Hekcorps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/87869e/32.png) [@Hekcorps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hekcorps)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/7 "2001-09-27T20:05:35Z")

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[QUOTE]  
\*Originally posted by AWB \*  
\*\*_Man (beating up a much larger man)_: Don’t call me “Tiny”. – Sulu (George Takei) to guard in **Star Trek III: The Search for Spock**.

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Man1: “Man2, I want to know absolutely everything that’s happened up 'till now.”  
Man2: “Well, let’s see: First the earth cooled. And, then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died, and they turned into oil…”

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/8 "2001-09-27T20:07:05Z")

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Man to another Man: He ain’t nothing like the Night Rider – the skag don’t rate

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Man to everyone: You want to get out of here, you talk to me.

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Man to his partner: I can’t swim.

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/9 "2001-09-27T20:09:35Z")

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Man to another man: F_ck Gaspar Gomez and f_ck the f\*cking Diaz brothers, I step on those cockroaches!

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**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/10 "2001-09-27T20:12:52Z")

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> Man1: “Man2, I want to know absolutely everything that’s happened up 'till now.”  
> Man2: “Well, let’s see: First the earth cooled. And, then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died, and they turned into oil…”

_Airplane_, Man1 is Lloyd Bridges, Man2 is the wacky air-traffic controller.

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> ## quote:
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> ## Originally posted by AWB “…nuclear weapon…”: “Broken Arrow”, said by Vic Deakins (John Travolta)
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> That wasn’t the one I was thinking of, but that line could have been in more than one movie, possibly.

I believe the quote from _Broken Arrow_ was “stop _shooting_ at the nuclear weapon.”

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**Author:** ![Ich\_Bin\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/11 "2001-09-27T20:15:53Z")

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**Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!**

That’s Bill Murrey in Ghostbusters

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**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/12 "2001-09-27T20:19:33Z")

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> Man to another man: F_ck Gaspar Gomez and f_ck the f\*cking Diaz brothers, I step on those cockroaches!

Al Pacino in _Scarface_?

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**Author:** ![Ich\_Bin\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/13 "2001-09-27T20:22:22Z")

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Oh, I get to post one, now that I got one.

Priest: “I kick ass for the Lord!”

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**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/14 "2001-09-27T20:22:52Z")

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Man to his partner: I can’t swim.

_Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_.

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**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/15 "2001-09-27T20:25:14Z")

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> \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \*
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> Man to his partner: I can’t swim.
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“Are you kidding? The fall will probably kill you!”

Sundance to Butch in _Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid_

Is ‘get off the nuclear weapon’ in _Spies Like Us_?

Man : “This? This is ice. It’s what happens to water when it gets too cold.”

Man to non-human : “Yeah … I’ll bet you have.”

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**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/16 "2001-09-27T20:29:00Z")

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“You wanna get outta here…” - Mel Gibson , 'The Road Warrior"

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/17 "2001-09-27T20:31:42Z")

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“nuclear weapon”–Armageddon.

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I hate it when they ain’t shaved.

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Hey! He owes me money!

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**Author:** ![Billy\_Baroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/76d3ee/32.png) [@Billy\_Baroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Baroo)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/18 "2001-09-27T20:33:18Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Ich Bin’s \*  
> \*\*Priest: “I kick ass for the Lord!” \*\*

_Dead Alive_

“Hi, my name’s Elliot, and I’m with the Cub Scouts of America. We’re selling some uncut cocaine to get to the jamboree.”

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/19 "2001-09-27T20:57:26Z")

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> \*Originally posted by panamajack \*  
> Man : “This? This is ice. It’s what happens to water when it gets too cold.”

**Real Genius**

Man (to himself): Thiland.

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**Author:** ![Hekcorps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/87869e/32.png) [@Hekcorps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hekcorps)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-that-movie-quote-game/84165/20 "2001-09-27T20:57:39Z")

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Tapswiller, Ethilrist you are correct.

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Man1: “Maaan2…”  
Man2: “Yes, Satan? Oh I’m sorry, Man1! I thought you were someone else!”

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Man: “She wasn’t murdered to protect \<Official\>, she was murdered to destroy him!”

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