Toby Radloff Quotes in American Splendor (2003)

Toby Radloff: You might want to try believing in something bigger than yourself. It might cheer you up.

Toby Radloff: I consider myself a nerd.

Harvey Pekar: What movie could be worth driving 260 miles round trip for?

Toby Radloff: It's a new film called Revenge of the Nerds. It's about a group of nerd college students who are being picked on all the time by the jocks. So they decide to take revenge.

Harvey Pekar: So what you're saying is, you identify with those nerds.

Toby Radloff: Yes. I consider myself a nerd. And this movie has uplifted me. There's this one scene, where a nerd grabs the microphone during a pep rally and announces that he is a nerd and that he is proud of it and stands up for the rights of other nerds.

Harvey Pekar: Right on.

Toby Radloff: Then he asks all the kids at the pep rally who think they are nerds to come forward, so nearly everybody in the place does. That's the way the movie ends.

Harvey Pekar: Uhhmmm, so the nerds won, huh?

Toby Radloff: Yes.

Harvey Pekar: All right. Wow, well you know, you got this movie and I'm getting hitched. We both had a good month, huh?

Toby Radloff: Right.

Toby Radloff: How long are you going to be in Delaware? Because I'd really like to see this movie with you.

Harvey Pekar: I don't know. I'll be gone about a week. But I'm getting married, so I'll have to bring her along too. Is it a girl flick?

Toby Radloff: Depends on the girl. Is your new bride a nerd?

Harvey Pekar: I don't know. Kinda. Yeah. She's in to herbal tea.

Toby Radloff: I'm not going to be eating dinner until very late and this has got to hold me over.

Harvey Pekar: Yeah? Whaddya got? A church function?

Toby Radloff: No. I'm driving to Toledo to see a movie. Wouldya like to come?

Harvey Pekar: No. Nah. I'm goin to Delaware tonight. I'm getting married.

Toby Radloff: Oh. Why Delaware?

Harvey Pekar: Well, you know, chick I'm marryin' is from Wilmington. Plus I gotta help her move her stuff back here. Why are you driving to Toledo to see a movie, Tob'?

Toby Radloff: It's not playing at the Mapletown. I didn't know you had a girlfriend Harvey.

Harvey Pekar: Yeah, yeah. We met last week.