Actually, I was a wonderful father. Did I ever tell you to eat up? Go to bed? Wash your ears? Do your homework? No. I respected your privacy, and I taught you self-reliance.

— Henry Jones (Sean Connery)

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16 seconds sound clip from the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:14:30 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Do you remember the last time we had a quiet drink? I had a milkshake.

- What did we talk about? We didn't talk. We never talked.

- Do I detect a rebuke?

- A regret.

- It was just the two of us, Dad. It was a lonely way to grow up. For you, too.

- If you'd been an ordinary, average father, like the other guys' dads, you'd have understood that.

- Actually, I was a wonderful father. Did I ever tell you to eat up? Go to bed? Wash your ears? Do your homework? No. I respected your privacy, and I taught you self-reliance.

- What you taught me was that I was less important to you than people who'd been dead for 500 years in another country. And I learned it so well that we've hardly spoken for 20 years.

- You left just when you were becoming interesting.

- Very well. I'm here now. What do you want to talk about?

- Well, I... I can't think of anything.

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