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I got ambitious and that tore it, but good.

3 seconds sound clip from the The Strange Love of Martha Ivers movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:57:15.316 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Pick another subject.

- It's your turn.

- You.

- An open book.

- I went out of this town with the circus, the one you were supposed to go with.

- Made friends with the animals and lived happily ever after. Almost.

- Almost?

- Yeah.

- I got ambitious and that tore it, but good.

- I got so I wasn't satisfied just being friendly with the animals. I got so I wanted to own the animals. So I bought some animals.

- Well, my lion got the mange and gave it to the monkeys. The animals became a responsibility and a liability.

- I lost my hard-earned cash and ran like a thief out of there with a great yen to become friendly with people.

- Now in that I had some success, me being a gambler, and people being what they are.

- Well, that brings us up to my 21st year when I became a man officially.

[...]

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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) Sound Clip

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) posterListen to memorable quotes from the classic 1946 film noir The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, accompanied by short sound clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck (Martha Ivers), Van Heflin (Sam Masterson), Lizabeth Scott (Antonia "Toni" Marachek), Kirk Douglas (Walter O'Neil)

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