If you ask me, he says, they're starving.
4 seconds sound clip from the Meet John Doe (1941) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:03:21 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Well, anyway, I guess... everybody in the neighborhood came except the Delaneys.
- They live in a big house with an iron fence around it and they always keep their blinds drawn.
- We figured he was an old miser that sat back counting his money, so why bother inviting him?
- Until Grimes the milkman said: You got the Delaneys all wrong.
- If you ask me, he says, they're starving.
- Old man Delaney's been bringing his furniture to me at night, one piece at a time and selling it.
- A half a dozen of us went over there to fetch him and we brought him to the meeting.
- Everybody shook hands and made a fuss over them.
- Well, finally... Mr. and Mrs. Delaney sat right down and cried.
- Then we started to find out about a lot of other people.
[...]
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Actors: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Edward Arnold, James Gleason
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