But from that day on, I realized one essential fact of life! The woman must stay out of the husband's work when he earns her bread and butter!

— Stanley Shriner Hoff (Rod Steiger)

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12 seconds sound clip from the The Big Knife (1955) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:33:07 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Nothing helped. Nothing.

- Then one day in my office, Frank Lubner was there, a pioneer in the industry, Smiley Coy...

- I drank a light scotch and soda, and I began to cry. And I haven't cried like that since I was a boy.

- Because I saw, through a revelation of pain, that my wife was determined in her innermost mind to destroy me and my career out of willful, malicious jealousy.

- You ask me why. I ask you why.

- But from that day on, I realized one essential fact of life! The woman must stay out of the husband's work when he earns her bread and butter!

- Charlie... Oh, Charlie...

- The wife of a man in your position should have the regard and should have the respect to help him advance his career. Don't you think?

- Charlie, you can have anything I own.

- The pain of this moment... the memories.

[...]

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