My research is... Well, when I started out, I was... I wanted to help people. But I became desperate and selfish. What I did was wrong.

16 seconds sound clip from the The Nutty Professor (1996) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:26:00 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Sherman! You need me! I taught you to be confident! You needed me, Sherman! Sherman!

- No matter what! No matter what, you got to strut.

- Come on. I ain't gonna be picking up your big ass all night, Anna. Shit.

- Oh, my god.

- Well, I'll be damned.

- If you give me a moment, I believe I can try to explain.

- My research is... Well, when I started out, I was... I wanted to help people. But I became desperate and selfish. What I did was wrong.

- Buddy's who I thought the whole world wanted me to be. He's who I thought I wanted to be.

- And sometimes when you want something so, so bad, you do just about anything to get it.

- But I learned one thing from Buddy.

- And I learned that life is not about being happy about how much you weigh, but just being happy with yourself.

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