- Don's a little tight. Most people drink a little. A lot of them get tight once in a while.
- Sure. The lucky ones who can take it or leave it. But then there are the ones who can't take it and leave it either.

— Don Birnam (Ray Milland), Helen St. James (Jane Wyman)

10 seconds sound clip from the The Lost Weekend (1945) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:46:44.371 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Don't listen to him.

- She doesn't have to. Just look at the two of us.

- Yes. What is all this covering up?

- All that happened is that Don was nervous at the idea of meeting your parents and so he took a couple of drinks.

- Come on, Wick, she'd have found out sooner or later.

- Stop it, both of you.

- Don's a little tight. Most people drink a little. A lot of them get tight once in a while.

- Sure. The lucky ones who can take it or leave it. But then there are the ones who can't take it and leave it either.

- What I'm trying to say is I'm not a drinker. I'm a drunk. They had to put me away once.

- He went to a cure.

- Which didn't take.

- You see, that first time we met, I should have had the decency to get drunk... just for your sake.

- For my sake? We're talking about you.

- Is it really that bad, Wick?

- Yes, it is.

- Can't we go over this tomorrow, Don, when you're feeling more like yourself?

[...]

The Lost Weekend (1945) Sound Clip

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Listen to memorable quotes from The Lost Weekend (1945) freely downloadable in MP3 / WAV format.

Actors: Ray Milland (Don Birnam), Jane Wyman (Helen St. James), Doris Dowling (Gloria), Howard da Silva (Nat)

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