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I'm just a common, ordinary businessman. I want a quick return on my investment.

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

You can hear this line at 00:03:39 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Their money is as good as anybody else's.

- You should have seen them turning them away at that wax museum on 23rd Street tonight: the Eden Musée.

- The story's the same at Madame Tussaud's in London. If you'd only listened to me...

- I know, I'd put in a Chamber of Horrors: murder, torture, executions scare the living daylights out of people. I don't care for that kind of patronage.

- You're a great artist, a genius sculptor.

- I'm just a common, ordinary businessman. I want a quick return on my investment.

- I've got $20,000 sunk in this historic peep show of yours and I could use that money to better advantage.

- All right, Matthew. All right. I've known for some time you wanted to dissolve our partnership. I think I may be able to accommodate you.

- How?

- A friend is bringing Sidney Wallace, the art critic, here tonight to see my work.

- Wallace is rich and I think I might me able persuade him to buy you out.

[...]

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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