- Compressed vertebra?
- Yeah, but I may fool everybody. I may be back on my feet a lot sooner than anyone expects.
9 seconds sound clip from the The Fortune Cookie (1966) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:19:14 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Who cares? The important thing is to get you well again.
- I better start on that dinner.
- Cooks, too. He's quite a treasure.
- Don't know what I would have done without him.
- Harry, what do the doctors say?
- Well, they're just guessing. It's a compressed vertebra and some nerve damage. It all connects up.
- Yeah, but I may fool everybody. I may be back on my feet a lot sooner than anyone expects.
- On the other hand, you never know about these things. Sometimes they drag on and on.
- What is?
- Remember when we used to put a red light bulb behind the logs, pretend this was a bearskin rug?
- And right in front of Whistler's Mother.
- With the chicken paprika, I think we should have some white wine.
- Look in the wine cellar. Second shelf, behind the cereal. I hide it from the cleaning woman, yeah?
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