As long as you boys are diversifying, I want $20000 to invest in me. That's what it would cost to put an act together if I'm to work the Persian Room.

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11 seconds sound clip from the The Fortune Cookie (1966) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:49:56 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- I'll be very careful.

- Kahlua. I thought we had some bourbon, but your friend Boom Boom...

- Now, when it comes to investing, the big trick is diversification. You put a little money into uranium stocks, a few oil wells in Montana, some real estate in downtown Phoenix.

- As long as you boys are diversifying, I want $20000 to invest in me. That's what it would cost to put an act together if I'm to work the Persian Room.

- You're going back into the singing racket?

- You bet! And this time I'm gonna do it right.

- For $20000 you can put on a pretty good act.

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- Four guys carry me on in a big basket full of flowers.

- I'm wearing a tight red sequin gown and they're in tails. White tie, top hats, and canes.

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Actors: Jack Lemmon (Harry Hinkle), Walter Matthau (Whiplash Willie Gingrich), Ron Rich (Boom Boom Jackson), Judi West (Sandy Hinkle)

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