I know I'm not the only one who does this. Usually, it's with comedies. If I step outside on a hot day with someone, it's even money that one of us will look at the other and say "Milk was a bad choice!"
Sometimes, it's out of nowhere. Last week I was sitting at a poker game and started the "I still don't know to this day what those two Italian ladies were signing about" monologue from The Shawshank Redemption for no apparent reason.
It goes to ridiculous lengths at times; if, at one of said poker games, someone uses the phrase "chillin' out" for any reason, there's approximately a 95% chance someone will continue with the second-half of the theme song from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, at which point two or three others will join in, and it won't stop -- literally -- until they've gone all the way through.
So, what memorable lines, from movies or TV, do you find yourself using in day-to-day life on a daily basis? Have you ever quoted a movie without explanation and had someone not recognize it? Did you explain it to them, or just move on?
I can't think of any movie--or other--line that I use daily or even weekly. The conversations I have just aren't that predictable, although my youngest brother did get in a habit of talking about "cowboying up;" not sure what he meant, but I suspect he got it from some movie.
However, a second brother--between me and my youngest brother in age--was once in Billy Bob's, a Dallas honky tonk that attracts tourist like Gilly's used to do here in Houston, when a fella came up and said there was a gal in their group visiting from up north who wanted to meet a cowboy and would my brother (who certainly looked the part) oblige? So he goes over, and this gal says, "Are you a real cowboy?" My brother said later, "I'd been waiting for years for someone to feed me that straight line!" So he pushes back his Resistol, leans back on the bar, and says, "Well that depends on what you think a real cowboy is!" (The meeting scene, as near as I can remember, between Debra Winger and John Travolta in
Urban Cowboy).
Me, I'm more apt to quote country songs. So my reply would have been, "Don't call him a cowboy until you see him ride."
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