- Sometimes four good actors can outshine four thousand.
- Yeah, but they can't make as much noise.
8 seconds sound clip from the You Can't Take It with You (1939) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:53:17 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- Has anybody got the pickles?
- And four other interesting people are coming back to our microphone now.
- That's quite a mob you've got here tonight.
- Not gangsters. Just a mob. You know, two's company, four's a mob.
- Quite a retrenchment. A DeMille mob scene ought to have about four thousand, shouldn't it?
- Sometimes four good actors can outshine four thousand.
- Yeah, but they can't make as much noise.
- That depends on their ammunition. You four made plenty tonight.
- Well, we're all a little shell-shocked after rehearsing under firecrackers all week.
- But wasn't that in the spirit of the Low Jinks Festival at the Bohemian Club?
[...]