You have no idea how many times I wanted to pick up that phone and call you, but I was afraid. I thought you'd just hang up on me.

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

You can hear this line at 01:21:59 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- It's just that sometimes two people drift apart, and they have to get together again, because they were cut out for each other. Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, they belong.

- You know what I'm trying to say?

- Yeah.

- I knew you'd agree with me.

- Oh, boy, oh, boy. Look at this.

- What?

- I think I'm going out of my mind. I can't watch it anymore.

- What?

- Apricot dumplings! On top of chicken paprika, red cabbage, buttered noodles. And that dame, she hasn't touched any of it. Just yak, yak, yak, yak, yak, yak, yak, yak, yak.

- I knew it two weeks after I left you... What a terrible mistake I'd made.

- You have no idea how many times I wanted to pick up that phone and call you, but I was afraid. I thought you'd just hang up on me.

- Then when I heard about your accident, I didn't stop to think. I just called.

- I'm glad you did. At least something good came out of it.

- The day I got the divorce papers, I was working at some club on Long Island. And I couldn't go on. I went to the ladies' room and was sick.

- You know what I did? I went down to Lake Erie to throw my wedding ring away.

- I don't blame you.

- Let me show you something. You won't believe this, because you always said I wasn't the sentimental type.

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