I can't get up and speak before people. The words stick in my throat. I'd rather get drunk. I do get drunk. I did get drunk.

— Walter O'Neil (Kirk Douglas)

16 seconds sound clip from the The Strange Love of Martha Ivers movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:34:04.348 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- To the day he sat beside you in the courtroom, as I, the public prosecutor demanded that the state take the life of a man, for the brutal murder of Mrs. Ivers.

- My father said nothing. I looked at him, but he said nothing.

- Your father was a realistic man.

- My father, may he rest in peace, was a greedy man.

- The man they executed was a criminal. If he hadn't hanged for that, he would have hanged for something else.

- The man was a man. Justice is justice. That's the way it is.

- I can't get up and speak before people. The words stick in my throat. I'd rather get drunk. I do get drunk. I did get drunk.

- Dear, listen to me. If you carry a thing in your mind, it makes you sick. I want you well.

- Tomorrow...

- Will be like today.

- You will leave on a trip for your health for a few weeks.

- Will you go with me?

- No. I'll stay here.

- Then, I'll stay here, too.

- What do you want to do? Give everything up, is that what you want to do?

- You wouldn't let me do that, would you?

- Do you want to?

- I don't know. I ask myself that question all the time.

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