You can't collect from a guy you can't catch up with.
5 seconds sound clip from the The Roaring Twenties (1939) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:34:20 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Take what you can get while you can get it. Nobody's gonna drop it in your lap.
- Chuck, here's a grand from Moore.
- Did you get that dough from Masters?
- You can't collect from a guy you can't catch up with.
- Anybody who can put on a 100000 dollar musical comedy can afford to pay me.
- Don't think everything's all wrong because you're not starving to death, you hear?
- Yeah? Sure. Sure, it's good stuff. I tell you, we just got it off the boat.
[...]
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Actors: James Cagney (Eddie Bartlett), Humphrey Bogart (George Hally), Gladys George (Panama Smith), Priscilla Lane (Jean Sherman)
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