Secondhand Lions (2003)

Haley Joel Osment: Walter

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Quotes 

• Walter : You bought a used lion?

• [Hub and Garth are getting ready to shoot at a traveling salesman] 

  Walter : Why not see what he's sellin'?

  Hub : What the hell for?

  Walter : Well what's the good of having all that money if you're never gonna spend it?

  Garth : Could be the kid has a point.

  Hub : Well. We'll see what the man's sellin'. THEN we'll shoot him.

  Garth : Good plan.

• Stan : It's up to you, kid. We can be friends, or we can be enemies. What's it gonna be?

  Walter : [looks down, thinking, then looks up]  Defend yourself!

  Stan : What?

• Walter : What's wrong with him?

  Garth : Well, a man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever. And him - in his day, he had more spirit than twenty men.

• Walter : What happened to her?

  Garth : Looks like her heart gave out in all the excitement. She was plenty old, you know.

  Walter : Look, I think she's smiling.

  Garth : I guess she died happy.

  Hub : She died with her boots on, that's the main thing.

  Garth : Protecting her cub.

  Walter : She was a real lion, wasn't she, there at the end? A real jungle lion. A real Africa lion.

• Walter : If I'm gonna live here, there's gonna be some conditions.

  Hub : Conditions?

  Walter : No more dangerous stuff. No more fighting teenagers. No airplanes. More vegetables, less meat.

• Walter : Is it okay if I go inside and watch television?

  Garth : Ain't got one.

  Walter : No television?

• Walter : Has he hit YOU yet?

  Mae : MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!

• Receptionist : [phone rings]  Fort Worth College of Court Reporting.

  Walter : I need to find my mom. She's a student there.

  Receptionist : I'm sorry, we're closed.

  Walter : It's an emergency, please. Her name's Mae - Mae Coleman.

  Receptionist : [looks for Mae Colman in a little drawer]  No, I'm sorry, there's no Mae Coleman registered here.

  Walter : [brief pause]  Oh! Try Mae Carter.

  Receptionist : No, I'm sorry.

  Walter : Mabel Cartwright? Made Calloway? Donna Tompko?

  Receptionist : Young man, are you in some sort of trouble?

  Walter : She's gotta be there! She just started.

  Receptionist : Listen, our classes started back in January. No one could have possibly just started.

  [Walter finds out the truth knowing Mae was lying] 

  Receptionist : Hello? Hello? Hello?

  [Walter hangs up the phone] 

• Walter : Those stories about Africa... They're true aren't they?

• Walter : I've been to the orphan home before. I don't wanna go back.

• Walter : So, you two were away for 40 years... Where'd you go?

• Hub : This lion head will sure look good hanging over our fireplace.

  Walter : What fireplace? You don't have a fireplace.

  Hub : We'll buy one.