“Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've...” – Roger Thornhill, North by Northwest ... Movie Quotes Database

[to The Professor]

Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself "slightly" killed.

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