I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.

— V (Hugo Weaving)

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7 seconds sound clip from the V for Vendetta movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:06:55 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I can assure you, I mean you no harm.

- Who are you?

- Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.

- Oh, I can see that.

- Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation.

- I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.

- Oh. Right.

- But on this most auspicious of nights permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.

- Voila!

- In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate.

[...]

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