I Heart Huckabees (2004)
Richard Jenkins: Mr. Hooten
Quotes
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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.
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Mrs. Hooten : Albert, what brought you to the philosophical club?
Albert Markovski : You mean the existential detectives?
Mr. Hooten : Sounds like a support group.
Cricket : Why can't he use the church?
Mrs. Hooten : Sometimes, people have additional questions to be answered.
Cricket : Like what?
Albert Markovski : Well, um, for instance: if the forms of this world die, which is more real, the me that dies or the me that's infinite? Can I trust my habitual mind, or do I need to learn to look beneath those things?
Mr. Hooten : Sounds like we got a philosopher.
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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.
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Mr. Hooten : What happened to the cat, Albert?
Albert Markovski : How'd you know about my cat?
Mr. Hooten : The cat was killed by curiosity.
Albert Markovski : Oh, right, that cat.
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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?
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Mr. Hooten : Hey, I don't want to hear it again or there will be no internet tonight.