Desk job? Is that all you can see in it? Just a hard chair to park your pants on from 9:00 to 5:00, huh?

— Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson)

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8 seconds sound clip from the Double Indemnity movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:43:40 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Nobody's too good to be a salesman.

- Phooey! All you guys do is just ring doorbells and dish out a smooth line of monkey talk.

- What's troubling you is that $50 cut, isn't it?

- Well, that'd trouble anybody.

- Now look, the job I'm talking about takes brains and integrity. It takes more guts than there is in 50 salesmen. It's the hottest job in the business.

- Yeah, but it's still a desk job. I don't want to be nailed to a desk.

- Desk job? Is that all you can see in it? Just a hard chair to park your pants on from 9:00 to 5:00, huh?

- Just a pile of papers to shuffle around, and five sharp pencils and a scratch pad to make figures on, maybe a little doodling on the side.

- Well, that's not the way I look at it. To me, a claims man is a surgeon, that desk is an operating table and those pencils are scalpels and bone chisels.

- And those papers are not just forms and statistics and claims for compensation. They're alive. They're packed with drama with twisted hopes and crooked dreams.

- A claims man is a doctor and a bloodhound and a...

- Who? Okay, hold on a minute.

[...]

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Double Indemnity Sound Clip

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Memorable quotes with sound from the movie Double Indemnity (1944), based on James M. Cain's 1943 novella of the same name.

Actors: Fred MacMurray (Walter Neff), Barbara Stanwyck (Phyllis Dietrichson), Edward G. Robinson (Barton Keyes)

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