- Compressed vertebra?
- Yeah, but I may fool everybody. I may be back on my feet a lot sooner than anyone expects.

9 seconds sound clip from the The Fortune Cookie (1966) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:19:14 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Who cares? The important thing is to get you well again.

- I better start on that dinner.

- Thank you, Boom Boom.

- Cooks, too. He's quite a treasure.

- Don't know what I would have done without him.

- Harry, what do the doctors say?

- Well, they're just guessing. It's a compressed vertebra and some nerve damage. It all connects up.

- Compressed vertebra?

- Yeah, but I may fool everybody. I may be back on my feet a lot sooner than anyone expects.

- On the other hand, you never know about these things. Sometimes they drag on and on.

- Too bad it's a phony.

- What is?

- The fireplace.

- Be nice to have a fire now.

- Remember when we used to put a red light bulb behind the logs, pretend this was a bearskin rug?

- And right in front of Whistler's Mother.

- Shameless.

- I better unpack.

[...]

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