❔ Clue (1985) Sentence Starters ❔
You have your instructions?
Tonight you may well feel obliged to my employer for the use of an alias.
Is this the right address to meet [name]?
I’m merely a humble butler.
Well, someone’s got to break the ice, and it might as well be me.
I have absolutely no idea what we’re doing here, or what I’m doing here, or what this place is about, but I am determined to enjoy myself.
I forgot we’re not supposed to say who we really are, though heavens to Betsy, I don’t know why.
Well, I’m sure I don’t know, but if I wasn’t trying to keep the conversation going, then we would just be sitting here in an embarrassed silence.
Are you afraid of silence, [name]?
I do know a little bit about psychological medicine, yes.
I’ve certainly seen you before. Although you may not have seen me.
Surprises, my friend. That’s what it contains–surprises!
Can I interest any of you in fruit or dessert?
It’s a hoax! I suggest we all leave.
I mean, nobody could blackmail me. My life is an open book–I’ve never done anything wrong.
That sounds like a confession to me. In fact, the double negative has led to proof positive. I’m afraid you gave yourself away.
I came into money during the war, when I lost my mommy and daddy.
He didn’t actually seem to like me very much. He had threatened to kill me in public.
Why would he want to kill you in public?
He was always a rather stupidly optimistic man. I’m afraid it came as a great shock to him when he died.
It’s a matter of life after death. Now that he’s dead, I have a life.
I work for the state department. And I am a homosexual.
I enjoy getting presents from strange men.
The only way to avoid finding yourselves on the front pages is for one of you to kill [name].
Someone tried to grab the gun from me in the dark and the gun went off.
Well one of us must have killed him!
I…I had to stop her from screaming!
You locked me up with a murderer, you idiot!
He believed that you were all thoroughly un-American.
We all had the opportunity. We all had a motive.
Don’t touch it! That’s evidence!
If I was the killer, I would kill you next.
Husbands should be like Kleenex. Soft, strong, and disposable.
Flies are where men are most vulnerable.
Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage.
Why would anyone want to kill him twice?
We’re trying to find out who killed him, and where, and with what!
I’m not shouting! All right, I am. I’m shouting. I’m shouting. I’m shouting!
Okay, put the corpses on the sofa.
There’s a homicidal maniac about!
Well, there’s no body. There’s nobody. There’s nobody in the study.
If you leave, I’ll say that you killed them both.
No man in his right mind would be alone together with you.
There is still some confusion as to whether or not there’s anybody else in this house.
If we split up into pairs, whichever one is left with the killer might get killed!
It’s you and me, honey bunch.
What are you afraid of? A fate worse than death?
What the hell. I’ll go first–I’ve had a good life.
There’s no alternative. I’m just going to have to break it down!
You know, you could have killed us! I could’ve been killed!
You all seem very anxious about something.
Frightfully drafty, these old houses.
Why is J. Edgar Hoover on you phone?
It’s not all that shocking. These folks are just having a good time.
The doorbell rang and it was [name], looking pale and tragic.
Why was he bashed in the head a few minutes later with a candlestick if he was dead already?
Clearly the best way of escaping death was to pretend to be dead already.
If I was the murderer, why would I reveal to you how I did it?
What do you mean, “don’t deny it”? I’m not denying anything.
That’s why you were so desperate to get your hand on those negatives. Photographs of you and [name] in flagrante delicto.
[name] threatened to send those pictures to my dear old mother. The shock would have killed her!
He was on my payroll. I bribed him once a week so I could carry on with business.
Whoever it is, they gotta go away or they’ll be killed!
Repent. The kingdom of heaven is at hand!
Our lives are in danger, you beatnik!
Whoever has the gun is the murderer.
Communism is just a red herring.
Like all members of the oldest profession, I”m a capitalist.
You don’t know what kind of people they have at the U.N.
The game’s up, [name]. There are no more bullets left in that gun.
[name], don’t hate me for trying to shoot you.
Monkeys’s brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington, D.C.
So it all has nothing to do with the disappearing nuclear physicist and [name]’s work on the new fusion bomb?
I don’t approve of murder, but it seems to me you’ve done the world a service by ridding it of an appalling blackmailer and his disgusting informers.
I suggest that we stack the bodies in the cellar, lock it, leave quietly, one at a time, and pretend that none of this ever happened.
But is the FBI in the habit of cleaning up after multiple murder?
Take your hands off me! I’m a senator’s wife!
Like the Mounties, we always get our man.
I hated her SO much. It…flames. Flames…on the side of my face. Breathing…breathle–heaving breaths.
Wait a minute! So who did I kill?
Why should the police come? Nobody’s called them.
I thought men like you were usually called a “fruit”.
If you want to know who killed [name], I did. In the hall, with the revolver.
I’m going to go home and sleep with my wife.
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