The Incredible Hulk (TV Series)

Half Nelson (1981)

Tommy Madden: Buster Caldwell

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• Buster Caldwell : When you grow up in a world where everyone's bigger than you, especially women, you try real hard to be something. And when it doesn't work, sometimes it feels better to pretend.

  Dr. David Banner : Buster, a lot of people want to be something they're not. A lot of people pretend. Not just little people.

• Dr. David Banner : Buster, I'm going to have to say... Well, I admit that not everything seemed quite real.

  Buster Caldwell : Not quite real?

  Dr. David Banner : Yeah.

  Buster Caldwell : Like what?

  Dr. David Banner : Like when the guy jumped on your neck, you managed to get right up.

  Buster Caldwell : Come on.

• Mitzi : Listen Buster, I hear you know those guys, you know, the wrestlers, the ones who ripped off the mob.

  Buster Caldwell : Now 'em? Where like this! I thought them everything they know.

  Mitzi : Well people say they got away with a bundle you know, ripped off a high stakes game. Now, are you gonna remember Mitzi if you get your cut, huh? That old mink of mine, why, barely keeps my shoulders warm.

  Buster Caldwell : Well you just tell your shoulders not worry, baby.

• Mitzi : You look so cute, just like a little kid.

  Buster Caldwell : I'm not a little kid, can't you see that! What's the matter with you?

  Mitzi : Buster, why don't you take it easy, huh?

  Buster Caldwell : I'm almost thirty years old. You dumb doxy! What do you think you're doing?

  Mitzi : You got no right to call me that!

  Buster Caldwell : I sure as hell do. I'm a man!

• Buster Caldwell : You told me a lotta people like to be something the're not. If you're one of them, David, You can believe, I'll understand.

• Buster Caldwell : The city can be an ugly place, David. You got to know how to handle yourself.

• Buster Caldwell : Don't you have any normal friends?

  Marsha : What do you mean? My friends are normal.

  Buster Caldwell : Sure they are. They all just happen to be under five feet.

  Marsha : Well, most of my friends are little people.

  Buster Caldwell : We might be small, Marsha, but we don't have to live in a sideshow.