# Your favorite movie quote

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 23, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142 "2013-02-23T03:08:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 17\
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**Author:** ![EMCEE\_98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5ac83/32.png) [@EMCEE\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EMCEE_98)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/121 "2013-02-27T22:59:47Z")

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[quote=“Satchmo, post:57, topic:651142”]

> [@Scubaqueen](#):
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> I’m shocked, shocked I tells ya, that nobody’s corrected this. It’s not from Star Wars. It’s from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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> I thought he was just being ironic/funny. Or she, I can’t keep straight who is male and who is female around here.
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> Mine: (today)
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> Hombre: How are you planning to get back down that hill?

Great quote. Laughed my ass off when he said it. Classic Elmore Leonard.

_High Plains Drifter_: “I’m the sheriff, AND the mayor!” Cracks me up every time I watch it.

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**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/122 "2013-02-27T23:23:31Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> “I’m your huckleberry.” _Tombstone_

“I have two guns… one for each of you.”

I have a hard time plucking quotes at random from my brain; they tend to be triggered by appropriate situations. Or looking at this thread. What I was going to post before looking reminded me of that one was…

“Yeah… and maybe I’m a Chinese jet pilot.”

or maybe…

“Baby, you got REAL ugly.”

_ **Sunset Boulevard** _ reminds me of my favorite from that particular film: “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.”

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/123 "2013-02-28T00:04:42Z")

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“Quick, let’s get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!”

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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:** [February 28, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/124 "2013-02-28T02:58:45Z")

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“Can you fashion a rudimentary lathe?”

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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/125 "2013-02-28T03:16:31Z")

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We deal in lead, friend. - _The Magnificent Seven_

I like the O’Reilly quote earlier about fatherhood, too.

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**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/126 "2013-03-01T01:02:16Z")

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Another from _The Magnificent Seven_.

**Chico:** They’re afraid. She’s afraid of me, you, him. All of us. Farmers! Their families told them we would rape them.  
**Chris:** Well we might. But in my opinion you might have given us the benefit of the doubt. But just as you please…

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**Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/127 "2013-03-01T01:20:18Z")

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I hope a cannon ball lands slap on you and blows you into a million pieces.  
Gone With The Wind

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**Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/128 "2013-03-01T03:14:45Z")

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“All we’ve got in the South is cotton, and slaves, and arrogance.”

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**Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/129 "2013-03-01T03:28:11Z")

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Sergeant: There’s another girl to see Captain Butler. Says she’s his sister. This one’s got her Mammy with her!  
Rhett: I’d really like to see this one, Captain. Let’s see, my (poker) losses come to how much?

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**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/130 "2013-03-01T05:07:20Z")

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If God wanted you on my obstacle, he’dve miracelled your ass up here.

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/131 "2013-03-02T04:21:07Z")

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From _The Last Starfighter_  
Jane Rogan: [gesturing to Alex’s ship, shocked] Alex, what is all this?  
Alex Rogan: I, uh, I’ve been to another planet, Ma.

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**Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/132 "2013-03-02T07:10:47Z")

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_The Day the Earth Stood Still_:

“Klaatu … barrada … nikto!”

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**Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/133 "2013-03-02T08:25:23Z")

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Old favourite; **There’s a line men like us have to cross**

New favourite; **some men are coming to kill us…we’re going to kill them first**

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**Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/134 "2013-03-02T12:09:48Z")

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So many good ones, but to these we must add:

‘I can’t believe I gave my panties to a geek’ - 16 Candles

'Ordinary people. I hate ‘em’ - Repo Man

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**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/135 "2013-03-03T02:43:41Z")

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Der meister ist tot.

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**Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/136 "2013-03-03T12:13:58Z")

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Son of a nutcracker!

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**Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-quote/651142/137 "2013-03-03T12:46:21Z")

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Favorite line in a novel; Donald Westlake, writing under his pseudonym Richard Stark:

> [@](#):
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> Her face would have been beautiful except that she had the eyes of a pickpocket and the mouth of a whore.

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