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- To make it these days, you need exposure.
- You need what?
- A showcase. Like the Copa or the Persian Room.

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

You can hear this line at 01:13:56 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- It's got me all shook up. I keep running that play over and over again in my mind.

- I saw him standing there. I could have stepped out of bounds. I could have cut back and reversed my field, but I didn't. And all for a lousy extra five yards.

- I wouldn't brood about it. I mean, everybody tries for that extra five yards, and, well, sometimes people get in our way.

- Harry played me your record. You sing good.

- I sing damn good, if you must know, but I started off wrong, working with a cheap band in some crummy cellar.

- To make it these days, you need exposure.

- You need what?

- A showcase. Like the Copa or the Persian Room.

- And for that, you need a knockout wardrobe and arrangements and special material, and a vocal coach and a publicity man.

- And for that, you need money. So unless you got, like, 20000 bucks, forget it.

- Maybe it's all for the best. Because now that you're here, maybe you'll decide to stay.

- Sure, and go back to doing those linoleum commercials.

- I was talking about going back to Harry.

[...]

The Fortune Cookie (1966) Sound Clip

The Fortune Cookie (1966) Poster

Listen to the witty and memorable lines of The Fortune Cookie with our selection of sound clips and quotes from the movie.

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

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