# Who said it? In which film? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 29, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944 "2003-03-29T01:34:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/1 "2003-03-29T01:34:16Z")
Do you know where the quote came from and who (actor) said it in what movie? I’ll start you off with a toughie (I think) "I told you not to turn that radio on. If that battery goes dead, it’ll have company. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/2 "2003-03-29T01:43:08Z")
WAG: Someone in _Speed_? ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/3 "2003-03-29T01:47:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BuckleberryFerry \* > \*\*WAG: Someone in _Speed_? \*\* Try again. It’s a much older film. Extra points for another quote from the same film. Then post a quote yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/4 "2003-03-29T01:51:57Z")
White Heat. My quote… WELL! This place a regular geographical oddity, ain’t it?-- two damn weeks from everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/5 "2003-03-29T02:16:13Z")
oops…I left out the actor. James Cagney ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/6 "2003-03-29T02:19:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reeder \* > \*\*WELL! This place a regular geographical oddity, ain’t it?-- two damn weeks from everywhere. \*\* Oh Brother, Where Art Thou. My quote : “Deliberately buried. Huh.” ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/7 "2003-03-29T02:36:42Z")
Well done Euty. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/8 "2003-03-29T12:26:53Z")
I’ve got one: _"When they attack the car, save the radio!_ ---
**Author:** ![ChalkPit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@ChalkPit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChalkPit)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/9 "2003-03-29T21:39:37Z")
“Deliberately buried. Huh.” is from 2001, concerning the monolith buried in Clavius? crater. My quote: “You don’t like Beethoven. You don’t know what you’re missing” ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/10 "2003-03-29T22:36:07Z")
But don’t go bumping into no hippo…makes them awful mad! ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/11 "2003-03-30T00:01:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ChalkPit \* > “You don’t like Beethoven. You don’t know what you’re missing” I could be wrong, but I think this is _Leon_ (aka _The Professional_ depending on the cut); said by a man who played Beethoven. Here’s a tough one : “Time is your god, if you are its dog. We are the creators of time, the victims of time, and the killers of time.” and an easier one : “I’ve got an idea …” ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/12 "2003-03-30T00:07:41Z")
“I’ve got an idea” spoken by Michael Caine in The Italian Job…? “Why don’t they just call him Girl George? It would save a lot of confusion.” ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/13 "2003-03-30T02:34:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by panamajack \* > **Here’s a tough one : "Time is your god, if you are its dog. We are the creators of time, the victims of time, and the killers of time."** Far away, So Close? ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/14 "2003-04-03T18:46:22Z")
Apologies for abandoning the thread … **pkbites** is correct with _Faraway, So Close!_ (That scene was inexplicably missing from the American theatrical release; I knew it existed, but hadn’t seen it until I got the DVD recently). Looking at it on paper, “I’ve got an idea …” is too generic (so **samarm** probably was right) – thinking of how it sounds in my head made it seem easy to me (I was thinking of _Time Bandits_). ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/15 "2003-04-04T00:44:07Z")
You should’ve said, “I’ve got an idea, forming in my head.” That would definitely be _Time Bandits_. Now, since you robbed me of my chance to get it (I knew it!)… I’ll post me a line anyways… “I have a horse. And four wives.” ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/16 "2003-04-04T01:05:29Z")
> [@](#): > > “I have a horse. And four wives.” \*\* **Little Big Man**? How about, “Yes, but you suck at it.” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/17 "2003-04-04T03:50:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DesertGeezer \* > \*\ ***Little Big Man**? > > \*\* yes ;j ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/18 "2003-04-04T06:37:55Z")
> [@](#): > > How about, “Yes, but you suck at it.” Robin Williams as the titular character in _Patch Adams_. A new one: NDP 1 - “This is nothing!” ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/19 "2003-04-04T06:40:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samarm \* > \*\*“Why don’t they just call him Girl George? It would save a lot of confusion.” \*\* Arnold Schwarzenegger in _Commando_. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944/20 "2003-04-04T07:56:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NDP \* > \*\*NDP 1 - “This is nothing!” \*\* Dustin Hoffman, _Wag the Dog_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-it-in-which-film/164944.md?page=2)