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I don’t know about this, guys. Like, if you’re not careful, you might end up using lines that totally aren’t cool, but that the movie-actor types just made sound cool because they’re movie-actor types and that’s what they’re good at. One time when I was working in a shop, I suddenly found myself replying to a simple question with the line “there ain’t nothing for certain in this life,” delivered - supposedly - in the same tone of voice that Charles S Dutton uses when he says it in Alien 3. You may well start off saying cool stuff about staying frosty or nuking sites from orbit, but be warned, that’s where this thing can oh so easily end up: with you using a totally uncool line for no good reason, at a moment when a simple “I don’t know, madam, I’ll just go check” would have done perfectly well.
So I now tend to think that saying movie stuff in public, to people who don’t know you, is probably, almost certainly, a Bad Idea. However. I do still sometimes quietly squeal “Eee! You know how I love money!” in the style of Christopher Walken in King of New York. Also, sometimes, “That’s not growth, that’s a mild swelling” in the style of Christopher Walken in Batman Returns. But squealing like Christopher Walken, when in the company of a close personal friend, is entirely different. And okay. |
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