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Each subject must be taken from life. How can I convince my audience they're alive, if I don't believe it myself?

9 seconds sound clip from the House of Wax (1953) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:40:29 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Have you turned your back on beauty?

- No. No, but I can no longer create it.

- I never forgot your Marie Antoinette.

- Nor have I.

- She will be the leading lady of my new exhibition. But I must find her first.

- Find her?

- A model, I mean.

- Yes, there will be beauty, for contrast, if nothing else.

- Each subject must be taken from life. How can I convince my audience they're alive, if I don't believe it myself?

- Oh, I have something I think will interest you.

- You follow Igor down into the basement.

- I have to go my own way.

- Here we are. Interesting, isn't it?

- One of my pupils is about to dip a body into a bath of wax.

[...]

House of Wax (1953) Sound Clip

House of Wax poster

Quotes from House of Wax (1953 film), featuring short sound bites and sfx.

Actors: Vincent Price (Professor Henry Jarrod), Carolyn Jones (Cathy Gray)

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