# What movie is this quote from? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-quote-from/255176 "2004-07-15T00:39:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rayray5884](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@rayray5884](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayray5884)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-quote-from/255176/1 "2004-07-15T00:39:09Z")
I was recently talking to a friend and the following movie quote somehow ended up in the conversation. We’re pretty sure this is the exact quote but for the life of us cannot name the movie. Let me know if you have any ideas and thanks in advance! “Need I remind you that I was recently in a horrific car accident?” ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-quote-from/255176/2 "2004-07-15T02:12:49Z")
Coyote Ugly. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-quote-from/255176/3 "2004-07-15T02:42:46Z")
Was it really? I’ve been wracking my brains trying to remember where I heard it – probably in the last month or two – and I’ve never seen _Coyote Ugly_. Is my brain playing tricksies again? I can hear the intonation, everything. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-quote-from/255176/4 "2004-07-15T02:50:15Z")
It’s not in the “Memorable Quotes” section of IMDb and others, and [this](http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:t3fgt8iwJc0J:www.show.ro/sub/C/Coyote%2520Ugly/CoyoteUgly-English.txt+%22I+was+recently+in+a+horrific+car+accident%22&hl=en) was the only cite I have. I own CU (mmm…Piper Perabo…) so I’m relying heavily on memory (although the cite did jog it a bit). It was the scene before Violet sang in the club. She was trying to get her dad (John Goodman) ready, and she was having doubts about her talent. Then he showed her that he bought her autograph for $20, saying it was a good investment. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-quote-from/255176/5 "2004-07-15T03:25:42Z")
Hooray for CC files. ([fixed the link, by the way.](http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:t3fgt8iwJc0J:www.show.ro/sub/C/Coyote%2520Ugly/CoyoteUgly-English.txt)) > [@](#): > > Did I mention to you that I was recently|in a horrific car accident? Strange… “You have nothing to be afraid of… you’re already a star,” sounds familiar too – but nothing else. It must have been on the boob-tube recently and been flipped past. Thanks, that was driving me crazy (too.) ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-quote-from/255176/6 "2004-07-15T03:31:45Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Strange… “You have nothing to be afraid of… you’re already a star,” sounds familiar too It should. It was the same movie. 😉😃 ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-quote-from/255176/7 "2004-07-15T07:01:54Z")
Im not disputing the qoute - and haven’t seen the movie… but she ought to have said ‘an horrific car accident’ Sorry, I’m a pedant. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-quote-from/255176/8 "2004-07-15T07:08:04Z")
> [@Made in Macau](#): > > Im not disputing the qoute - and haven’t seen the movie… but she ought to have said ‘an horrific car accident’ > Sorry, I’m a pedant. Maybe in the UK, where it might be pronounced _'orrific_. Here in the good old US of A we put _an_ infront of vowel sounds, and we pronounce the H in horrific, making it _a horrific car accident_. ---
**Author:** ![DataZak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-quote-from/255176/9 "2004-07-15T07:26:08Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Maybe in the UK, where it might be pronounced _'orrific_. Here in the good old US of A we put _an_ infront of vowel sounds, and we pronounce the H in horrific, making it _a horrific car accident_. [\*\*Eddie Izzard] You say _'erbs_ but we say _herbs_. Because there’s a fucking _h_ in it.[\*\*Eddie Izzard] Sorry for the hijack. Just that your post reminded me of it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SamIAm336](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SamIAm336](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamIAm336)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-quote-from/255176/10 "2004-07-18T19:34:39Z")
I pronounce it with the h, but think it should have been _an horrific_ It would be more correct that way. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-quote-from/255176/11 "2004-07-18T20:22:51Z")
> [@SamIAm336](#): > > I pronounce it with the h, but think it should have been _an horrific_ > It would be more correct that way. Unless you’re speaking British English, no, it wouldn’t. The rule we have is that you only use ‘an’ when the word starts with a vowel sound. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-quote-from/255176/12 "2004-07-18T23:08:22Z")
The rule here in the UK is the same - ‘a’ before a consonant; ‘an’ before a vowel; with the exception of ‘h’! It is correct to say ‘an hotel’, ‘an horrific’, or as my friend Greg rips the piss out of me for saying, ‘an hilarious’. This is probably a throwback to the upper class habit of dropping their h’s, but we can’t legislate for why linguistic rules apply, they just exist, and English is the worst culprit of stupid rules… I’m just pointing out that it is a rule! I now live in an area of the UK where people commonly say, ‘my hair needs washed’, or ‘my car needs fixed’ so my pedantry is fully stretched. To go back to the movie - I’m sure it’s in keeping with her character to have made the quote she did, my attention was piqued in _reading_ the quote. I’m honestly sorry that I can’ let it go.