Now if I could choose from anybody alive, I wouldn't pick José. Nehru, maybe, or Albert Schweitzer. Or Leonard Bernstein.
10 seconds sound clip from the Breakfast at Tiffany's movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:38:16 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Then why are you leaving? What's in it for you, anyway?
- Look, I know what you're thinking, and I don't blame you. I've always thrown out such a jazzy line.
- Really, except for Doc and yourself, José's my first non-rat romance.
- Not that he's my idea of the absolute finito. He's too prim and cautious to be my absolute ideal.
- But I am mad about José. I honestly think I'd give up smoking if he asked me.
- Come on, darling, let's eat. It's getting late.
- I'm leaving tomorrow, and I haven't even begun to pack.
- Didn't want José to think I was the kind of girl who loses her key, so I had 26 of them made.
- No, wait. I got a better idea. Kind of a farewell gesture.
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