You know, the worst ain't so bad when it finally happens... Not half as bad as you figure it will be before it's happened.

— Bob Curtin (Tim Holt)

5 seconds sound clip from the The Treasure of the Sierra Madre movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 02:04:07.723 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Why, only day before yesterday, they wanted to make me their legislature, their whole legislature.

- I don't know what that means, but it must be the highest honor they can bestow.

- Yeah, I'm all fixed for the rest of my natural life.

- How about yourself? What do you aim to do?

- I haven't got any idea.

- Oh, you're young yet. You got plenty of time to make 3 or 4 fortunes for yourself.

- You know, the worst ain't so bad when it finally happens... Not half as bad as you figure it will be before it's happened.

- I'm no worse off than I was in Tampico.

- It all amounts to a couple of hundred bucks when you come right down to it.

- Not very much compared to what Dobbsy lost.

- Any special place you're bent on going?

- Nah. All places are the same to me.

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