I need your physical presence on the lot. I need your body, not your goodwill.

— Stanley Shriner Hoff (Rod Steiger)

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

You can hear this line at 00:35:12 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- No, no, Stanley...

- I want you to let me go. We don't like each other. I know that, you know it. I'll promise you anything you want if you'll just let me go.

- Please, listen to him. He's asking this from the bottom of his soul...

- Shut up!

- I solemnly abjure realism.

- I need your physical presence on the lot. I need your body, not your goodwill.

- Now, I want you to sign this paper with one of the pens that ended the Second World War. This was used by a great American, General Douglas MacArthur.

- I can't tell you how many long months of constructive dreaming have gone in this moment, and I will let nobody, or nothing, stand in the way of that dream.

- I'm asking you for the last time... Please, let me go.

- I can't force you to sign, can I? Can I?

[...]

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