Ben Wekselbaum Quotes in Rocket Science (2007)

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

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: 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!

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: The big city is, uh, is, is Trenton?

Ben Wekselbaum: That's right