It's useful being top banana in the shock department.
5 seconds sound clip from the Breakfast at Tiffany's movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:19:14 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- You stay right where you are. You must be absolutely exhausted.
- I mean, it is very late, and you were sound asleep and everything.
- I suppose you think I'm very brazen or très fou or something.
- I don't think you're any fouer than anybody else.
- Yes, you do. Everybody does. And I don't mind.
- It's useful being top banana in the shock department.
- Okay. Positive statement. Ringing affirmative. I'm a writer.
- The only writer I've ever been out with is Benny Shacklett.
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