You know, once I even got myself a gun and some bullets. I was gonna do it on my thirtieth birthday. Here are the bullets. The gun went for three quarts of whiskey. That other Don wanted us to have a drink first. He always wants us to have a drink first.

— Don Birnam (Ray Milland)

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

You can hear this line at 00:50:01.899 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- And I'd sit in front of that typewriter, trying to squeeze out one page that was halfway decent, and that guy would pop up again.

- What guy? Who are you talking about?

- The other Don Birnam. There are two of us, you know: Don the drunk and Don the writer.

- And the drunk would say to the writer, come on, let's get some good out of that portable. Let's take it to that pawn shop over on 3rd Avenue, it's always good for $10, another drink, another binge, another bender and a spree.

- Such humorous words.

- I tried to break away from that guy a lot of times but, no good.

- You know, once I even got myself a gun and some bullets. I was gonna do it on my thirtieth birthday. Here are the bullets. The gun went for three quarts of whiskey. That other Don wanted us to have a drink first. He always wants us to have a drink first.

- The flop suicide of a flop writer.

- All right, maybe you're not a writer. Why don't you do something else?

- Sure, take a nice job. Public accountant, real estate salesman.

- I haven't the guts, Helen.

- Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation.

- But you are a writer. You have every quality for it. Imagination, wit, pity...

[...]

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

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