Rocket Science (2007)

Nicholas D'Agosto: Ben Wekselbaum

Quotes 

• Ben Wekselbaum : The fights you fight today are the fights you fight until you die.

• 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.

• 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 : 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.

• Ben Wekselbaum : Man, it's a blessing to be squarely and dearly out of the god damn suburbs.

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

  Ben Wekselbaum : That's right

• 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!