Rocket Science (2007)

Reece Thompson: Hal Hefner

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Quotes 

• Hal Hefner : There's a cello in your house now.

• Ginny Ryerson : Have you ever felt like you can burn the world down?

  Hal Hefner : Every day.

• Hal Hefner : It's one of those two, love or revenge, I'm not really sure which one. But it's one of those two that made me throw a cello through somebody's window, so you figure it out.

• Ben Wekselbaum : An actual cello?

  Hal Hefner : Well, it took a bunch of throws but, but ah, you know, I'm good for a bunch.

• Hal Hefner : [sees the Ryerson's approaching]  There's a cello in your house now.

• Hal Hefner : Um... but I'll have a slice of the, of your, one of your, um, a slice of, the, the p-p... the... the the pizza.

  Pizza Server : [puts one slice of pizza on a plate]  You can pay me when you're through.

  Hal Hefner : You know why don't I make it not just on... not jus not o-one not of the not one slice of the but uh I'll uh I'll have uh not one.

  Pizza Server : I'm gonna close up in a bit, why don't you just take all three. Otherwise they're gettin' trashed.

  [puts two more slices on the plate] 

  Hal Hefner : [raises hands in triumph]  Yes...

• Ben Wekselbaum : It's all so pointless. That's the realization I came to at States last year. Life is nothing but repetition, the same thing over and over. Somebody might give you a trophy and that's supposed to mean you're making progress but there's no such thing. The fights you fight today are the fights you fight untill you die.

  Hal Hefner : Yeah, be that as it may.

  Ben Wekselbaum : Sure, be that as it may...

  Hal Hefner : Wait! It is not some college application bullshit that is, that is like the driving force here or any bullshit.

  Ben Wekselbaum : I'm sure.

• Hal Hefner : Could... uh, could... could you tell her that uh... I uh... I'm done with my... my ma... masturbation and she can see! Oh...

  [Mrs. Ryerson shuts the door in his face] 

• Hal Hefner : And all it got me was... was a cello through her wi... window.

  Ben Wekselbaum : You threw a cello? Through her window?

  Hal Hefner : Yeah.

  Ben Wekselbaum : How big was it?

  Hal Hefner : I... I think it was sta... standard sym... symphony size.

• Hal Hefner : The big city is, uh, is, is Trenton?

  Ben Wekselbaum : That's right

• Hal Hefner : That's god doing your dry cleaning.

  [smiles] 

  Hal Hefner : God does dry cleaning. He wears a smock.

• Hal Hefner : You know, someday you'll find love and then everything will be different.

• Townsend Secretary : Are you her little brother? You look like you could be her little brother.

  Hal Hefner : I'm... her ex-lover.

• Hal Hefner : Does it count as second base when it's groping through the shirt?

  Townsend Prep Bad Girl : Maybe in public school.

• Hal Hefner : No, ah, do you wanna know what it is?

  Ben Wekselbaum : Yeah, "What it is, is... "?

  Hal Hefner : What it. What it is, is, ah. It's, ah... is, ah, is. No. What, what it is, is.

  [shouting] 

  Hal Hefner : It's spirit crushing, I said!

• Hal Hefner : You know, Ginny said I won't be her real partner for months. And until then, I'm, like... the mascot. The disfluent mascot. The disfluent mascot who's not getting a BJ.

  Heston : Like an aardvark.

  Hal Hefner : No, that was a joke, Heston... there isn't a debate mascot.

  Heston : I, for some reason, was convinced that it was an aardvark.

  Hal Hefner : No.

  Heston : C'est la vie.