- That's right. Take a little, leave a little.
- A person who don't look out for himself is too dumb to look out for anybody else.
8 seconds sound clip from the The Grifters movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:47:05 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- How are you hanging out these days? Stealing much?
- From you? My folks didn't raise no stupid kids.
- You're not scheming a thing, Lilly?
- Well, you know. I clip a buck here, and a buck there. Not enough to notice.
- That's right. Take a little, leave a little.
- A person who don't look out for himself is too dumb to look out for anybody else.
- That's a thousand percent right.
- Or else he's working an angle.
- If he's not stealing a little, he's stealing a lot.
- YeahÉ You really think so? Yeah. A lotta people've been telling me that.
- Well, you can tell them from me they're right.
[...]
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