“It just irritates me to see anyone as brilliant as you make a jackass...” – Max Steiner, Compulsion ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from Compulsion 1959

Max Steiner Richard Anderson

[to Judd Steiner]

It just irritates me to see anyone as brilliant as you make a jackass out of himself over someone like Artie Straus.

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