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I took up this profession because I don't like people. They want to talk too much. It's quiet work, light-tending. Let's keep it that way.

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13 seconds sound clip from the Three Skeleton Key (Escape) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:04:10 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- About those other two. Louis and Auguste. What a pair.

- Louis, he was head man, was a big fellow from the Basque country.

- Black beard, little hard black eyes and a pair of arms that - I tell you, those arms were as big around as my legs.

- Yes, head man he was and what word he let go was law.

- A silent fellow. And although I spent my first two weeks trying to strike up a real conversation, the most I could ever get out of him was...

- I took up this profession because I don't like people. They want to talk too much. It's quiet work, light-tending. Let's keep it that way.

- You... you're getting to be as bad as Auguste. I thought maybe for once they'd send me somebody who could keep his mouth shut...

- When he accused me of becoming like Auguste, I quieted down because Auguste was the talkingest man I'd ever met.

- The talkingest and the ugliest. He was hunchbacked, stood four feet high, had red hair and big blue eyes.

- It seems he'd been an actor in Paris.

- Yes, indeed! Played in over two hundred different productions, dear boy. At the Grand Guignol.

- Oh, but it was monstrous, horrible, the way we used to scare the audiences. I was hated.

[...]

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Three Skeleton Key (Escape) Sound Clip

Three Skeleton Key (Escape)Memorable quotes with voice samples from Three Skeleton Key - Escape Radio Show episode aired on March 17, 1950, based on a story by George G. Toudouze.

Actors: Vincent Price (Jean), Jeff Corey (Louis), Harry Bartell (Auguste)

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