Submitted by: Rose King
Maybe it’s your best friend. Maybe it’s your boss. Maybe it’s someone you should seriously consider hiding from on Facebook. Whoever it is, there’s someone in your life who feels the need to speak in the most dated and obvious movie quotes available.
It’s not that there’s anything wrong with peppering conversation with pop culture touchstones. The problem is when you use the hackiest, most overused quotes possible. They’re not even jokes any more, just signs that the speaker hasn’t kept up with the times. The quotes below can only really be deployed ironically, and even then it takes practice and skill. Next time someone drops one of these on you, don’t be afraid to roll your eyes and let the line die. And if you find yourself tempted to use one: Just say no. (That’s an original one, right?)
- “PC Load Letter?” from Office Space
- “Say hello to my little friend.” from Scarface
- “I know kung fu.” from The Matrix
- “Houston, we have a problem.” from Apollo 13
- “Say ‘what’ again!” from Pulp Fiction
- “You had me at ‘Hello.‘” from Jerry Maguire
- “Is nice!” from Borat
- “You can’t handle the truth!” from A Few Good Men
- “It’s just a flesh wound.” from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- “Run, Forrest, run!” from Forrest Gump
