Haley Joel Osment: Walter

Secondhand Lions

Walter

[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 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: 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: 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.

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]