Hope? Let me tell you something, my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. It's got no use on the inside.

— Ellis Boyd Red Redding, Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman)

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16 seconds sound clip from the The Shawshank Redemption movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:12:29 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, I played a mean harmonica, as a younger man. Lost interest in it, though. Didn't make much sense in here.

- Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it, so you don't forget.

- Forget?

- Forget that there are places in the world that aren't made out of stone, that there's a there's something inside, that they can't get to, that they can't touch. It's yours.

- What are you talking about?

- Hope.

- Hope? Let me tell you something, my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. It's got no use on the inside.

- You'd better get used to that idea.

- Like Brooks did?

- Sit down.

- It says here that you've served 30 years of a life sentence.

- You feel you've been rehabilitated? (2)

[...]

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Actors: Tim Robbins (Andy Dufresne), Morgan Freeman (Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding), Bob Gunton (Warden Samuel Norton), Clancy Brown (Captain Byron Hadley), James Whitmore (Brooks Hatlen), William Sadler (Heywood)

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