- Aren't things ever easy for you?
- Only when I get mad. Then they get too easy. I think that's why I get mad, to make it easy.

— Earl Slater (Robert Ryan)

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10 seconds sound clip from the Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:01:45.839 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I'll never leave you. I've been leaving all my life since when I can first remember.

- When the wind blew us off the land in Oklahoma, we left. After that, I never stayed. Not in the Army, not in Detroit, not anyplace.

- I'd start something, if it didn't work right away, I'd blow it.

- And it was always something. A lousy captain, or a Polack foreman in the auto works, or it'd be too slow.

- I'm getting too old to take things slow. If I don't make it now, I never will. I mean with you, too. It's now or never.

- Aren't things ever easy for you?

- Only when I get mad. Then they get too easy. I think that's why I get mad, to make it easy.

- But I got something now, and I'm going to stick with it.

- Okay, what'll it be, mister?

- Just gas. Fill it up.

- Can you do 150 on a straightaway?

- I said just gas.

- Sorry, mister.

[...]

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