The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Quotes with Sound Clips - page 2

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Memorable quotes from the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives, with sound clips in WAV and MP3 formats.

Actors: Myrna Loy (Milly Stephenson), Fredric March (Al Stephenson), Dana Andrews (Fred Derry)

4 more actors, Teresa Wright (Peggy Stephenson), Virginia Mayo (Marie Derry), Cathy O'Donnell (Wilma Cameron), Harold Russell (Homer Parrish)

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11 How many times have I told you I hated you and believed it in my heart? How many times have you said you were sick and tired of me, that we were all washed up? How many times have we had to fall in love all over again?

— Milly Stephenson (Myrna Loy)

12 How'd they get you nervous? -Well, they keep staring at these hooks or else they keep staring away from them. -You mean whatever they do is wrong.

— Al Stephenson (Fredric March), Homer Parrish (Harold Russell)

13 I've seen a couple of facts. I've seen a ship go down and over 400 of my shipmates went with it. Were those guys suckers? -That's the unpleasant truth.

— Homer Parrish (Harold Russell)

14 It's against the rules here to chat with customers unless it's a sale. -Oh, all right, I'll buy something.

— Peggy Stephenson (Teresa Wright), Fred Derry (Dana Andrews)

15 Say, you don't seem to care where you're going. -That's right, chum. I don't.

— Fred Derry (Dana Andrews)

16 What do you think of the children? -The children? I don't recognize them. They've grown so old. -I tried to stop them, to keep them just as they were when you left, but they got away from me.

— Milly Stephenson (Myrna Loy), Al Stephenson (Fredric March)

17 What's that a picture of? -Bomb hits on Düsseldorf. Oh, that's my B-17.

— Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), Marie Derry (Virginia Mayo)

18 You can see into the secret recesses of his innermost soul. -I can see because I love him.

— Al Stephenson (Fredric March), Peggy Stephenson (Teresa Wright)

19 You can't have happy marriages on that kind of dough.

— Marie Derry (Virginia Mayo)

20 You'll probably have to make a speech. -It's my plan to meet that situation by getting well plastered.

— Milly Stephenson (Myrna Loy), Al Stephenson (Fredric March)

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