Well, because I've got a crazy idea you might be good at the job.
4 seconds sound clip from the Double Indemnity movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:43:13 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- How would you like a $50 cut in salary?
- Do I laugh now or wait till it gets funny?
- No, I'm serious. I've just been talking to Norton.
- Well, because I've got a crazy idea you might be good at the job.
- That's crazy, all right. I'm a salesman.
- Yeah. A peddler, a gladhander, a backslapper.
- You're too good to be a salesman.
- 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.
[...]