A character in Hulk (2003)

General Ross quotes from Hulk (2003)

Sam Elliott

5th most-quoted character in Hulk (2003): in 3 of its 29 quotes

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He is his father's son, every last molecule of him! He says he doesn't know his father, but he's working in the same exact goddamn field his father did!

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We're buried out here in the middle of nowhere. How long are you going to keep him sedated?

General Ross

For the rest of his natural life, if I have to.

You said I could trust you.

General Ross

I'm your father. You can trust me to do what I think is right, not what you think you want.

He is a human being.

General Ross

Well, he is also something else. Suppose he gets out, has one of his little mood swings in a populated area.

Yes, I'm aware of the potential danger. I'm also aware that he saved my life.

General Ross

Yeah, from a mutant French poodle. I'm indebted to him for that. He also put three men in a hospital and Talbot's barely walking! I mean, what do you want me to do?!

I want you to help him! Why is he such a threat to you?

General Ross

Because I know what he comes from! He is his father's son, every last molecule of him! He says he doesn't know his father, but he's working in the same exact goddamn field his father did! So, either he's lying or it's something worse, that he's-

What? Predestined to follow on his father's footsteps?

General Ross

I was going to say "damned".

Of course you were, but I'm a scientist. As a scientist, I believe we can figure this out and he can be helped.

General Ross

I know you do. Whether you know or care, I've got a lot of pride in what you've done, but this is too big for you.

Look, I know the government thinks they have a weapon on their hands, otherwise he'd be dead by now. They can probe and prod all they want. In the meanwhile, just let me try to help him. Nobody knows him better than I do. What did David Banner do to him?

I should have killed you.

Yeah? I should have killed you.

I wish you had. I saw her last night. Saw her face. Brown hair, brown eyes. She smiled at me. She reached down and kissed my cheek. I can almost remember a smell. It was like desert flowers.

Her favorite perfume.

It was my mother, and I don't even know her name.

It's alright, son. Go ahead and cry. Go ahead and cry. Cry. Crying will do you good.

Don't touch me! Maybe, once, you're my father. But, you're not now and you never will be.

Oh, is that so? Well, I've got news for you. I didn't come here to see you. I came here to see my son. My real son. The one inside of you. You're nothing but a superficial shell, a husk of flimsy consciousness ready to be torn off at a moment's notice.

You can think what you like! I don't care, just go!

No, son. Listen to me. I found a cure... for me. My cells can transform, too. Absorb enormous amounts of energy. But, unlike you, they're unstable. Son, I need your strength. I gave you life, now you must give it back to me! Only a million times more radiant, more powerful!

Stop!

"STOP" WHAT?! "STOP" WHAT?!? Think about all those men out there, in their uniforms! Barking and swallowing orders! Inflicting their petty rule over the entire globe! Think of all the harm they've done! To you! To me! To humanity! And know this, that we can make them, and their flags, and their anthems, and their governments disappear! In a flash! You and me!

I'd rather DIE!

Oh, that's your answer. And indeed you shall die. And be reborn a hero! Of the kind that walked the Earth long before the pale religions of civilization infected humanity's soul!

'''GO!!!'''

Stop your bawling, you weak little speck of human trash. [David stands up and grabs the cable] I'll go! You just watch me go!

General Ross

Hit it!

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