I'm sorry, Pop. I didn't mean that, but I...

5 seconds sound clip from the It's a Wonderful Life (1946) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:17:29 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Well, I... I...

- Annie, why don't you draw up a chair? Then you'd be more comfortable, and you could hear everything that's going on.

- I would if I thought I'd hear anything worth listening to. You would, eh?

- I know it's soon to talk about it.

- No, now, Pop, I couldn't. I couldn't face being cooped up for the rest of my life in a shabby little office.

- I'm sorry, Pop. I didn't mean that, but I...

- It's this business of nickels and dimes and spending all your life trying to figure out how to save three cents on a length of pipe. I'd go crazy.

- I want to do something big and something important.

- You know, I feel that, in a small way, we're doing something important, satisfying a fundamental urge.

- It's deep in the race for a man to want his own roof and walls and fireplace.

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