Movie Quotes in Daily Life

It may just be my family, but I’ve noticed lately how frequently movie quotes crop up in my day-to-day conversations. It’s not a new trend in my family by any stretch of the imagination. The first one I recall was begun by my mother shortly after seeing High Road to China (classic Tom Selleck cheese if you’ve not seen it), the quote? “Speeeeeaaaakkkkk.”

My sister and I often have entire conversations that consist of nothing but movie quotes. For whatever reason, these tend to be Meg Ryan movies. (We do a lot of “Tweaking. T-w-e-a-k-i-n-g.”) And I inevitably end up telling my sister, “You’re right, you’re right. I know you’re right.”

My husband and I frequently have multiple Monty Python and Princess Bride quotes crop up in a given conversation. When talking about the boys, it’s most often a tongue-in-cheek comment that someone’s being repressed.

And on and on it goes.

Do you do this? Would it be incredibly weird if characters in a book did this? (Side question: would it even be legal to have characters in a book quote a movie? You probably have to get permission…and I don’t know that anyone could really afford that. I’ll have to investigate.)

Bonus question: Can you name the movies?