Sure, sure... I'd like to believe in fairy tales, but a guy that's a fake isn't gonna jump off any roof.

7 seconds sound clip from the Meet John Doe (1941) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:52:35 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- If this isn't the craziest, the battiest, the looniest wild goose chase I ever heard of.

- Shut up, Bert. Sourpuss is right.

- If he is, I'm a banana split.

- That man's gonna be on that roof.

- Don't ask me how I know. I just know. And you know it as well as you do.

- Sure, sure... I'd like to believe in fairy tales, but a guy that's a fake isn't gonna jump off any roof.

- I don't think he was any fake. Not with that face. And anyway, what he stood for wasn't a fake.

- Okay, honey. Okay.

- Elevators ain't runnin'.

- Colonel.

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