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Audio clips of the best quotes selected from the movie The High and the Mighty (1954), as rated by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors.

Actors: John Wayne (Dan Roman), Claire Trevor (May Holst), Robert Stack (John Sullivan)

3 more actors, Jan Sterling (Sally McKee), Robert Newton (Gustave Pardee), Paul Fix (Frank Briscoe)

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1 Funny thing how a fella can sleep with four big engines hollering in his ears, only wake up when they stop hollering. Imagine silence waking you up at home?

— Dan Roman (John Wayne)

2 Water is for bathing, but if you can put some scotch in it, I'll feel cleaner.

— Frank Briscoe (Paul Fix)

3 Dumb-bunny? -That's slang for mentally retarded American girls, like me.

4 Look at my face. Wouldn't you walk away?

— Sally McKee (Jan Sterling)

5 Of course you're worried. But I'm quite certain we'll get out of this all right. Why, by tomorrow we can look back on it as an interesting experience.

— Gustave Pardee (Robert Newton)

6 There ought to be a home for dames like me. Yup. We should have organized. You know, a house somewhere with with no mirror in it.

— Sally McKee (Jan Sterling)

7 You get the habit of laughing at little problems when they come along, and then you don't blow your top when the genuine, serious things happen. Get it?

8 At times I'm a very stupid and selfish woman.

9 I called his home and then a bar I know about. His wife had been there, but she left about an hour ago, drunk.

10 If you came over to give me help, it was partly because you needed help yourself, very badly.

— Sally McKee (Jan Sterling)

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