- I had a perfectly normal childhood.
- I see. You wanted to kill your father and sleep with your mother.

— Earl Williams (Austin Pendleton)

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7 seconds sound clip from the The Front Page (1974) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:37:05 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Pretty sneaky, those Bolsheviks.

- Who's a Bolshevik?

- According to this, you were arrested in 1925 for illegal possession of explosives.

- Oh, yes.

- Well, I don't know how you feel about Wall Street, Doctor, but I mailed this shoebox to JP Morgan with a time bomb in it. And it came back because of insufficient postage. Blew the whole roof off my boarding house.

- We should send them all back where they came from.

- I come from Fargo, North Dakota.

- Tell me, Mr. Williams, were you unhappy as a child?

- Not really.

- I had a perfectly normal childhood.

- I see. You wanted to kill your father and sleep with your mother.

- If he's gonna talk dirty...

- When you were in grammar school, did you practice self-abuse?

- No, sir. I don't believe in it.

- I would never abuse myself or anybody else. I love people, I love all people.

- I suppose that cop committed suicide.

[...]

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