I Heart Huckabees (2004)

Mark Wahlberg: Tommy Corn

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Quotes 

• Albert Markovski : No, I'm not. I'm talking about not covering every square inch with houses and strip malls until you can't remember what happens when you stand in a meadow at dusk.

  Bret : What happens in the meadow at dusk?

  Albert Markovski : Everything!

  Mrs. Hooten : Nothing!

  Albert Markovski : Everything.

  Mrs. Hooten : Nothing!

  Albert Markovski : Everything!

  Mrs. Hooten : Nothing!

  Albert Markovski : It's beautiful.

  Tommy Corn : It's beautiful.

• Mr. Hooten : God gave us oil! He gave it to us! How can God's gift be bad?

  Tommy Corn : I don't know. He gave you a brain too and you messed that up pretty damn good.

  Mr. Hooten : I want you sons of bitches out of my house now!

  Tommy Corn : If Hitler were alive, he'd tell you not to think about oil.

  Mrs. Hooten : *You're* the Hitler! We took a Sudanese refugee into our home!

  Tommy Corn : You did. But how did Sudan happen, ma'am? Could it possibly be related to dictatorships that we support for some stupid reason?

  Mr. Hooten : You shut up! You get out!

  Tommy Corn : You shut up.

  [to Albert] 

  Tommy Corn : Come on. Let's get out of here.

• Tommy Corn : Ah, here he comes!

  Albert Markovski : Oh, boy.

  Tommy Corn : The man-poet who banged France's dark lady of philosophy. The parking lot crusader of truth... who turned his back on his other like a cold-blooded gangsta.

• [last lines] 

  Tommy Corn : What are you doing tomorrow?

  Albert Markovski : I was thinking about chaining myself to a bulldozer. Do you want to come?

  Tommy Corn : What time?

  Albert Markovski : Mmm, 1, 1:30.

  Tommy Corn : Sounds good. Should I bring my own chains?

  Albert Markovski : We always do.

• Albert Markovski : The interconnection thing is definitely for real.

  Tommy Corn : It is! I didn't think it wasn't! It is!

  Albert Markovski : I know, I can't believe it, it's so fantastic!

  Tommy Corn : It's amazing!

  Albert Markovski : I know.

  Tommy Corn : But it's also nothing special.

• Tommy Corn : How come we only ask ourselves the really big questions when something bad happens?

• Tommy Corn : [after being hit in the face with a rubber ball]  Awesome! Can we do the ball thing everyday?

  Caterine Vauban : Don't call it the ball thing. Call it pure being.

  Tommy Corn : Okay... so can we do the pure being ball thing everyday?

• Mr. Hooten : Do you have a job, Tom?

  Tommy Corn : I'm a firefighter.

  Mrs. Hooten : Oh, God bless *you*! A hero!

  Tommy Corn : I'm not a hero. We'd all be heroes if we quit using petroleum, though.

• [running away from Vivian and Bernard] 

  Tommy Corn : I want my money back!

  Albert Markovski : Yeah, and if I weren't pro bono, I'd want MY money back!

• Cricket : Jesus is never mad at us if we live with Him in our hearts!

  Tommy Corn : I hate to break it to you, but He is - He most definitely is.

• Tommy Corn : I have no idea what you guys are talking about. I thought we were here to talk about petroleum.

• Tommy Corn : It's all different now. I thought we were a platonic trio, not some sick sex dance. You said that was bullshit.

• [last lines] 

  Tommy Corn : [Albert and Tommy sitting on marsh rock]  What are you doing tomorrow?

  Albert Markovski : I was thinking about chaining myself to a bulldozer. Do you want to come?

  Tommy Corn : What time?

  Albert Markovski : Mm, one, one-thirty.

  Tommy Corn : Sounds good. Should I bring my own chains?

  Albert Markovski : We always do.

  [Scene goes blurry. Tommy hits Albert in the face with the big orange ball and then hits himself in the face with it] 

• Mr. Hooten : Stevo, I'm so disappointed.

  Mrs. Hooten : It's all right. Look, he's sad. He's sad.

  Mr. Hooten : I'm sorry Stevo. My bad. You didn't know.

  Tommy Corn : You should be ashamed of yourself.

  Mr. Hooten : I should be what?

  Tommy Corn : You should be ashamed of yourself.

  Mr. Hooten : And why's that? Why whould I be ashamed of myself?

  Tommy Corn : You're a hypocrite.

  Mr. Hooten : I'm a what?

  Tommy Corn : You're misleading these children. 'Cause you're the destroyer, man.

  Mr. Hooten : How am I the destroyer?

  Tommy Corn : I saw that S.U.V. out there.

  Mr. Hooten : My car's the destroyer? You wanna know how many miles per gallon I get?

• Tommy Corn : But there's no way I could stop it's use in my lifetime is there? I mean, Jimmy Carter would have an electric car by now. I could have a Cadillac Escalade and it could be electric. I wouldn't have to ride my bicycle.

• Tommy Corn : You don't want to ask these questions?

  Molly Corn : No. I wanna live my life.

  Tommy Corn : What is that life, baby? What are we part of? Who are we? Look at this, look at this

  [shows her one of her shoes] 

  Tommy Corn : . Do you know where these come from?

  Molly Corn : Yeah. My closet. The store.

  Tommy Corn : Indonesia.

  [turns to young daughter] 

  Tommy Corn : Baby... this is the truth, ok? Little girls like you, they have to work in dark factories where they go blind, for a dollar sixty a month just to make Mommy her pretty shoes. Can you even imagine that, Caitlin?

  Caitlin Corn : [shouting]  I don't want the children to work in factories! Stop it from happening!

  Molly Corn : Your Daddy's crazy, honey.

  Tommy Corn : Daddy's not crazy, baby. The world is crazy. It's important to ask these questions.

  Molly Corn : Shut up!

  Tommy Corn : Mommy doesn't ask because Mommy doesn't care. Don't stop asking questions, baby!

• Tommy Corn : Sorry I grabbed you.

  Vivian Jaffe : Reptilian!

• Vivian Jaffe : You live all the time with things you can't see. You can't see electricity, can you? You can't see radio waves, but you accept them.

  Bernard Jaffe : Trust.

  Albert Markovski : Fuck trust!

  Bernard Jaffe : You better stay away from Caterine, Albert, 'cause she's gonna lead you down the path of darkness.

  Vivian Jaffe : She was our prize graduate student until she went astray.

  Albert Markovski : No, I think that I am going to stay with her, and the cracks and the pain and the nothingness, because THAT's more real to me, THAT's what I feel.

  Tommy Corn : Word.

  Bernard Jaffe : Okay, we're not sweatin' it.

  Vivian Jaffe : No, we're gonna work with Brad.

  Bernard Jaffe : It'll all come back to you and interconnection.

  Albert Markovski : Brad? Are you kidding me? I'm gonna work on that prick and it's all gonna come to pain and no connection!

  Bernard Jaffe : No.

  Tommy Corn : It's on.

• Molly Corn : If nothing matters, how can I matter?

  Tommy Corn : I don't know if nothingness matters or somethingness matters. I'm trying to figure that out and I want you to help me.

• Tommy Corn : If this world is temporary...

  Bernard Jaffe : Yeah.

  Tommy Corn : Identity is an illusion...

  Bernard Jaffe : Yeah

  Tommy Corn : Then everything is meaningless.

• Tommy Corn : This is the place to be. Once you realize the universe sucks, you got nothing to lose. That's what gives you la force.

  Albert Markovski : The force?

  Tommy Corn : La force. It's French for strength.

  Caterine Vauban : La force.

• Tommy Corn : Deconstruct your mind to the blackness, okay? Just accept it for what it is. Nothing.

• Tommy Corn : I'm just gonna accept my loneliness. And I'm gonna go to an even darker place of nothingness. From an even farther, more extreme nothingness on my own!