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'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)

12 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)

13 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)

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

— Fred Derry (Dana Andrews)

15 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)

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

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

17 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)

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

— Marie Derry (Virginia Mayo)

19 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)

20 Did you know him while I was away? -I knew lots of people. What do you think I was doing all those years? -I don't know, babe, but I can guess.

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

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