You know, Harry, I've seen guys carry a torch before, but you're the champ. You could carry it from Greece to Mexico City to open the next Olympic Games

— Whiplash Willie Gingrich (Walter Matthau)

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

You can hear this line at 00:22:36 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Of all the miserable broads. I don't know what I ever saw in her in the first place. Cooks like a pig and smokes in bed!

- Used to walk around like a zombie because her nail polish was always wet. That's unless she was crawling on her knees trying to find one of her contact lenses.

- Best thing ever happened to me was when she cut out!

- Still crazy about her, huh?

- And stupid! Never read a book in her life... She read one book... The Carpetbaggers. End of six months she was on page 19.

- We had no life together, no dialogue, no laughs, no...

- You know, Harry, I've seen guys carry a torch before, but you're the champ. You could carry it from Greece to Mexico City to open the next Olympic Games

- You out of your skull? You know how many girls I've had since Sandy? There was Phyllis. There was Sheila. There was Janet...

- Use the other hand. That one's numb.

- Don't give me with that torch. As far as I'm concerned, it's...

- The funny thing is, she still cares about you.

- The hell she does.

- Did you hear her? Did you hear her on the phone? She was practically crying.

- The next time she calls and she hears what shape you're in, mangled and helpless, she's gonna hop the first plane from New York.

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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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