Oh, I couldn't kill anything. I can't even cut these flowers. If people want to see them, they've got to come here where they're alive. Not... withering and dying in a vase.
12 seconds sound clip from the The Big Combo (1955) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:08:31.216 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- I don't know why you've come to me, Officer.
- My name is Anna Lee Jackson.
- Are you sure you never took an ocean voyage?
- Well, if I had I certainly would've remembered.
- You really have a way with flowers.
- Beautiful, all of them. How do you do it?
- Oh, you have to love them. They know the difference.
- A caterpillar. Eating the buds.
- Well, why didn't you kill it?
- You feel that pretty strongly, don't you?
- I can tell you why you feel that way.
- Can you?
- I have a photograph of you... taken seven years ago. You can have it if you like.
- The men are old friends of yours, one alive, the other dead.
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