When I got home, I was a national celebrity. Famouser even than Captain Kangaroo.

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)

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9 seconds sound clip from the Forrest Gump (1994) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:14:19 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I thought I was going back to Vietnam, but instead, they decided the best way for me to fight the Communists was to play Ping-Pong.

- So, I was in the Special Services, traveling around the country cheering up all them wounded veterans and showing them how to play Ping-Pong.

- I was so good that some years later the Army decided that I should be on the All-American Ping-Pong team.

- We were the first Americans to visit the land of China in like a million years, or something like that.

- Somebody said world peace was in our hands, but all I did was play Ping-Pong.

- When I got home, I was a national celebrity. Famouser even than Captain Kangaroo.

- Here he is, Forrest Gump, right here.

- Mr. Gump, have a seat.

- Forrest Gump, John Lennon.

- Welcome home.

- You had quite a trip. Can you tell us, what was China like?

[...]

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