- What were you in for?
- What's the difference? Larceny, they called it.
7 seconds sound clip from the Monsieur Verdoux movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:00:03 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- What do you want to know for?
- Precisely. And I ask nothing in return.
- What is this, the Salvation Army?
- Very well. If that's the way you feel, you're at liberty to go on your way.
- Well, if you must know, I'm just out of jail.
- What's the difference? Larceny, they called it.
- Larceny?
- Petty larceny. Pawning a rented typewriter.
- Dear, dear. Couldn't you do better than that?
- So this is your first day out of jail?
- Yes.
- Ah, well. Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
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