Oh, George, to get away, somehow to be useful in the world.
8 seconds sound clip from the The Philadelphia Story movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:49:24 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- We haven't time. Uncle Willie wants us at 8:00.
- Look what your friend considers a wedding present.
- Why, it's a model of the True Love.
- A boat he designed and built, practically.
- We sailed her down the coast of Maine and back the summer we were married. My, she was yare.
- Yare?
- Oh, George, to get away, somehow to be useful in the world.
- Useful? You, Tracy? Why, I'm going to build you an ivory tower with my own two hands.
- Do you mean you've been in one too long?
- Well... I mean that, and a lot of things.
- George. You... You don't really mind him, do you? I mean, the fact of him?
- The fact of him? What do you mean?
- Well, I mean... Well, you know, that he ever was my lord and master, that we ever were...
[...]
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Actors: James Stewart (Macaulay Connor), Cary Grant (C.K. Dexter Haven), Katharine Hepburn (Tracy Lord), Ruth Hussey (Elizabeth Imbrie), Virginia Weidler (Dinah Lord), Roland Young (Uncle Willie)
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