You're a public figure and, as such, your life is not your own.

— Boyce (Verna Felton)

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5 seconds sound clip from the The Moon's Our Home (1941) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:41:40 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Here's what Walter Wilton says in 'Broadway Lowdown... 'Although Miss Chester refuses to explain her whereabouts for the past few days...

- Your correspondent has it on good authority that there is a certain guide in the Maine woods could shed some light on...

- Stop it. I don't want to know about it.

- Mm, just as you like.

- The other paper says you were in the sanitarium with the D.T.'s.

- Well, I feel like I was.

- Why do the papers want to hurt me? Why are people so unkind? I've done nothing. At least, nothing that concerns them.

- You're a public figure and, as such, your life is not your own.

- Oh, I've made an awful fizzle of things, haven't I? It seems that I always do.

- I just wanted to get away, to be myself. I didn't expect to get myself in a jam. And what a jam I'm in, you'll never know.

- I haven't bothered you with any questions, and I won't, either.

- Thank you, darling.

- Do you believe in fables?

- I used to.

- Well, fables always have a happy ending, don't they?

- Always, darling.

[...]

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