If I'd had any sense, I'd have turned in my badge.

3 seconds sound clip from the The Big Heat (1953) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:32:53.732 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Do you mind if I put my two cents in?

- No, honey, I don't mind.

- I've been thinking about Lieutenant Wilks.

- That leaning tower of jelly.

- You know how long he and his wife have looked forward to retirement. We've done it ourselves when we've looked that far ahead.

- Wilks only has a few more years to go. He's worried about his pension.

- If I'd had any sense, I'd have turned in my badge.

- Your big trouble, honey, is that you attack yourself from all sides, like Jersey mosquitoes.

- You don't want to quit the department, not for one minute.

- What am I supposed to do... hold on to my job by just stringing along? Afraid to look to the left or to the right because I might see something that they don't want me to see?

- If you do, you're gonna have trouble from me.

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