If I could put this over, Mrs. Burke can have six babies.

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

You can hear this line at 00:33:23 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- We owed everybody in town.

- You just got to stop giving all your money away.

- Oh, Ann dear.

- I'm sorry, Ma. Don't pay any attention to me. I guess I'm just all upset about all this.

- Here I am with a great opportunity to get somewhere, to give you security for once, and I'm stuck.

- If I could put this over, Mrs. Burke can have six babies.

- The speech you're writing?

- Yeah. I don't know. I simply can't get it to gel.

- I created somebody who's giving up his life for a principle.

- Thousands of people are going to listen to him over the radio, and unless he says something sensational, it's just no good.

- I don't know what kind of speech you're going to write, but from the samples I've read, I don't think anybody will listen.

[...]

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