NAPERVILLE, IL — Gary Ellison, 41, of Naperville, announced to no one in particular Tuesday that he could recite the entirety of at least six major motion pictures from memory but struggled to complete a single original sentence at his wife’s book club without borrowing a line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

The realization reportedly came mid-anecdote at a dinner party when Ellison noticed he had responded to four consecutive conversational prompts with quotes, two of which the other guests did not recognize, leaving him to explain the reference, which he also did in a quote.

“I know a tremendous amount of words,” Ellison told reporters, “I’m just not totally sure which ones are mine.”

“He’s very well-informed about what fictional characters think about things. His own opinions are more of a work in progress.”

His wife, Dana Ellison, 39, confirmed that her husband’s go-to response in moments of genuine emotional difficulty is a Jeff Goldblum line from a 1993 dinosaur film, which, she noted, has not improved with repetition.

“We’ve been married fourteen years,” Dana said. “I’d love to hear what Gary actually thinks about something. Anything, really.”

Ellison acknowledged the critique as “probably fair” and spent the following twenty minutes quietly wondering whether he had ever formed an unprompted opinion or simply curated a very large internal library that he had mistaken for a personality.

At press time, Ellison had opened his Bible to begin reading, recognized the Sermon on the Mount as entirely original material, and sat with that for a while.