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I believed because I wanted to believe.

2 seconds sound clip from the Knock on Any Door movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:33:09.291 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- The jury will not be recalled and a plea of guilty entered.

- I was on the jury.

- So was I.

- Is there any statement you wish to make before sentence is passed?

- Your honor, there's something I'd like to say in behalf of the defendant.

- When I took this case, I believed Nick Romano was innocent. I believed what he told me, and I believed what those men, Butch and Sunshine, told me.

- I believed because I wanted to believe.

- I wanted to believe that all the filth and fury and jumble of this boy's past had not produced a killer.

- But... Nick Romano is guilty.

- He's guilty of many things. He's guilty of knowing his father died in prison. He's guilty of having been reared in poverty.

- He's guilty of having lived in the slums, of having had the wrong companions: the pickpockets and hoodlums, panhandlers and prostitutes of the worst district that ever disgraced a modern city.

- He's guilty of the pool rooms and bars that were open to him as a boy.

[...]

Top rated lines from this movie

Knock on any door... And you may find Nick Romano.
Want to talk to you back there. -Why not? Talk is cheap. -And he's got plenty of cheap talk.
No! Nothing's gonna slow me down. From here on in, I travel in a hurry. What I used to say still goes. Live fast, die young... And have a good-looking corpse.
I'm gonna retire. Where's Arabia? -I don't know. I haven't got my atlas.
Why don't you quit asking me dumb questions? -Yeah, but I'm g-g-giving you good advice. -Who asked ya?
Knock on Any Door (1949) Sound Clip

Knock on Any Door posterListen to memorable quotes from the classic 1949 film noir Knock on Any Door, accompanied by short sound clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

Actors: Humphrey Bogart (Andrew Morton), John Derek (Nick Romano)

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