You bought me on the market, Gustave, paid for me like you might pay for a play which you thought might turn out well.

10 seconds sound clip from the The High and the Mighty (1954) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:29:08 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

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- I just want to know one thing. What happened to the biggest baby in the world? The child-man who was afraid to sleep with the lights off.

- You used to burst into tears if the laundry put starch in your shirts or the crepe suzette was underdone.

- I don't understand you, Gustave. I guess, I never will.

- Maybe it isn't important to understand you. Like the other women you've always managed to keep around.

- I've tried to tell myself I made a bargain with a throwback, a Roman emperor.

- You bought me on the market, Gustave, paid for me like you might pay for a play which you thought might turn out well.

- For 10 years I've lived with that thought and hated it.

- Now, it'll never bother me again.

- There is something I'd like to tell you. And if we don't get out of this, I'd like you to know it even more.

- I've never said it before, and probably you'll never want me to say it again.

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