You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing. And you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself.

— Paul Varjak (George Peppard)

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12 seconds sound clip from the Breakfast at Tiffany's movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:50:33 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- What do you think? This ought to be the right kind of place for a tough guy like you. Garbage cans, rats galore.

- Scram! I said take off! Beat it! Let's go.

- Driver... pull over here.

- You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken. You've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, 'Okay, life's a fact.'

- People do fall in love. People do belong to each other because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness.

- You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing. And you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself.

- And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somaliland. It's wherever you go.

- Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

- Here. I've been carrying this thing around for months. I don't want it any more.

- Here, cat! Cat!

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