I was lying, Matt. I know her and she knows me. I recognized her the minute she stepped across the room.

9 seconds sound clip from the Anna Christie (1930) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:58:23 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Shut up, or I'll choke the wind out of your gullet.

- Oh, Matt, let her alone. She don't mean nothing by it.

- Anna. Anna, darling. You see what you've done? You frightened her.

- Go on, clear out of here.

- I'm going, I'm going.

- Let her alone. Don't go.

- I was lying, Matt. I know her and she knows me. I recognized her the minute she stepped across the room.

- Shut up, kid. You don't have to spill over for nobody. You ain't responsible for what your old man does.

- I'll tell you why she didn't want to talk to me. Because I'm a tramp, that's why.

- And her old man kicked me off the barge when she come there to live on it.

- Yeah, he didn't want any old wharf rat around a nice young girl.

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