Did construction work down south. Drifted around the Oklahoma oil fields. Jobs like that, one after the other, until finally I got her out of my system.

9 seconds sound clip from the Criss Cross (1949) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:13:57.671 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- After it's done, after it's all over and we're safe, it'll be just you and me, you and me, the way it should've been all along from the start.

- From the start. The beginning. It all happened so fast. It was only eight months ago that I came back.

- I came home. The Los Angeles sun was shining, the way it's always supposed to.

- The old trolley line looked the same, the old street, the old houses. I was glad to be back.

- I'd been all over the country. I connected with a trucking outfit in Chicago.

- Did construction work down south. Drifted around the Oklahoma oil fields. Jobs like that, one after the other, until finally I got her out of my system.

- I didn't come back on account of her. That had nothing to do with it.

- I wasn't gonna go looking for her. I didn't expect to run into her.

- I didn't particularly want to see her. I was sure of that, if I was sure of anything.

- But then from the start, it all went one way.

[...]

Top rated lines from this movie

A man eats an apple. He gets a piece of the core stuck between his teeth, you know? He tries to work it out with some cellophane off a cigarette pack. What happens? The cellophane gets stuck in there too.
A job. -A job? Well, why come to me? -'Cause you're the only crooks I know.
My wife? She's at the beach. We took a place down at Balboa. See, she thinks she's run-down, needs a change. Actually, she likes to take sunbaths. All women are nuts about gettin' sunburned. But I don't care. I indulge her. I'm not picayune.
But why do we all have to go to him? -When they're the top men in their line, you go to them.
You don't mind it, do ya? Our helping ourselves, I mean.

MOVIE-SOUNDS.ORG - Download and listen to lines and quotes from movies which can be used as ringtones. A movie phrases and sayings search engine.

 

All the movie sound clips on this site are just short samples from the original sources, in mp3, wav or other popular audio formats. The copyrighted, unlicensed movie samples are shorter in comparison to the original movie. Samples do not exceed 10 seconds or less than 1% of the length of the original movie, which is shorter. All the sounds retain their original copyright as owned by their respective movie production companies (read the full disclaimer and disclosures)

Contact | Privacy policy