Big Fish Quotes

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Big Fish Quotes

 

Amos Calloway: Did I kill anything?
Young Ed Bloom: Only two or three rabbits, and one was already dead, I think.
Amos Calloway: I see. That explains the indigestion. »

Amos Calloway: Her favorite flower is daffodils
Young Ed Bloom: Daffodils. »

Amos Calloway: Tell me, Karl, have you ever heard the term “involuntary servitude”?
Karl: No.
Amos Calloway: “Unconscionable contract”?
Karl: Uh, nope.
Amos Calloway: Great! »

 

Big Fish Quotes

 

Amos Calloway: You were a big fish in a small pond, but this here is the ocean and your drownin’. Take my advice, go back to puddleville, you’ll be happy there. »

Ed Bloom (Age 10): I was thinking about death and all. About seeing how you’re gonna die. I mean, on one hand, if dying was all you thought about, it could kind of screw you up. But it could kind of help you, couldn’t it? Because you’d know that everything else you can survive. »

Josephine: I talked to your father last night. He told me about how he and your mother met.
Will Bloom: Most of that never happened.
Josephine: But it’s romantic.
Will Bloom: Well, who am I to argue romance with a French woman? »

Josephine: I’d like to take your picture.
Senior Ed Bloom: Oh, you don’t need a picture. Just look up “handsome” in the dictionary. »

 

Amos Calloway: Did I kill anything?
Young Ed Bloom: Only two or three rabbits, and one was already dead, I think.
Amos Calloway: I see. That explains the indigestion. »

Amos Calloway: Her favorite flower is daffodils
Young Ed Bloom: Daffodils. »

Amos Calloway: Tell me, Karl, have you ever heard the term “involuntary servitude”?
Karl: No.
Amos Calloway: “Unconscionable contract”?
Karl: Uh, nope.
Amos Calloway: Great! »

Amos Calloway: You were a big fis

Young Ed Bloom: There’s a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny’s lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The truth is I’ve always been a fool. »

Senior Ed Bloom: I caught an uncatchable fish. »

 

Big Fish Quotes

 

Senior Ed Bloom: I don’t know if you’re aware of this, Josephine, but African parrots, in their native home of the Congo, they speak only French.
Josephine: Really?
Senior Ed Bloom: You’re lucky to get four words out of them in English, but if you were to walk through the jungle, you’d hear them speaking the most elaborate French. Those parrots talk about everything. Politics, movies, fashion. Everything but religion.
Will Bloom: Why not religion, dad?
Senior Ed Bloom: It’s rude to talk about religion. You never know who you’re gonna offend.
Will Bloom: Josephine actually went to the Congo last year.
Senior Ed Bloom: Oh, so you know. »

Senior Ed Bloom: I tell facts.
Will Bloom: You tell lies, dad. »

Senior Ed Bloom: It’s rude to talk about religion, you never know who you’re gonna offend. »

Senior Ed Bloom: Most men, they’ll tell you a story straight true. It won’t be complicated, but it won’t be interesting either. »

Senior Ed Bloom: People needn’t worry so much. It’s not my time yet. This is not how I go.
Will Bloom: Really?
Senior Ed Bloom: Truly. I saw it in the eye.
Will Bloom: The old lady by the swamp?
Senior Ed Bloom: She was a *witch*.
Will Bloom: No, she was old and probably senile.
Senior Ed Bloom: I saw my death in that eye, and this isn’t how it happens.
Will Bloom: So how does it happen?
Senior Ed Bloom: Surprise ending. Wouldn’t want to ruin it for you. »

Senior Ed Bloom: Sometimes, the only way to catch and uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring. »

Senior Ed Bloom: Tell me how it happens
Will Bloom: How what happens?
Senior Ed Bloom: How I go.
Will Bloom: Dad, you never told me that story. »

Senior Ed Bloom: The Milk Man dropped dead on our front porch. Turns out my mama was banging the Milk Man. »

Senior Ed Bloom: There’s a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost… the ship has sailed and only a fool would continue. Truth is… I’ve always been a fool. »

Big Fish Quotes

Young Ed Bloom: This isn’t how I die. »

Young Ed Bloom: What are you doing here?
Norther Winslow: I’m robbin’ this place! »

Young Ed Bloom: You don’t know me but my name is Edward Bloom and I love you. »

Will Bloom: You become what you always were – a very big fish. »

 

Young Ed Bloom: I just saw the woman I’m going to marry. I know it. But I lost her.
Amos Calloway: Oh, tough break. Well, most men have to get married *before* they lose their wives.
Young Ed Bloom: I’m gonna spend every day for the rest of my life looking for her. That, or die alone!
Amos Calloway: Damn, kid. Lemme guess. Real pretty? Reddish-blondish hair? Blue dress?
Young Ed Bloom: Yeah!
Amos Calloway: I know her uncle. Friends of the family.
Young Ed Bloom: Who is she? Where does she live?
Amos Calloway: Forget it kid, don’t waste your time. She’s out of your league.
Young Ed Bloom: What do you mean? You don’t even know me.
Amos Calloway: Sure I do! You were hot shit back in Hickville, but here in the real world, you got squat! You don’t have a plan, you don’t have a job, you don’t have anything except the clothes on your back. »

 

Big Fish Quotes

Josephine: Oh, so this is a tall tale?
Senior Ed Bloom: Well, it’s not a short one. »

Josephine: You never told me how your parents met.
Will Bloom: They met at Auburn.
Josephine: But what about the details? How they fell in love. The cirus, the war – you never told me any of that.
Will Bloom: That’s because most of it never happened.
Josephine: But it’s romantic.
Will Bloom: Mmm…
Josephine: Mmm, what?
Will Bloom: Well, I know better than to argue romance with a French woman. »

Karl: I don’t want to eat you. I just get so hungry. I’m just too big.
Young Ed Bloom: Has it ever occurred to you that maybe you’re not too big? Maybe this place is just too small? »

Norther Winslow: The grass is so green. The sky is so blue. Spectre is really great. »

Sandra Bloom: You don’t even know me.
Young Ed Bloom: I have the rest of my life to find out. »

Senior Dr. Bennett: Do you want to know what really happened on the day you were born?
Will Bloom: Sure.
Senior Dr. Bennett: You were born early, without any problems, and your dad was away on a salesman trip and was upset that he couldn’t be there. But men weren’t allowed in during the delivery, so I don’t see how it could be much different. I guess it’s not as exciting as your father’s version…
Will Bloom: I kind of liked your version. »

Senior Ed Bloom: And that’s my life story. »

Senior Ed Bloom: They say, when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that’s true. What they don’t tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up. »

Senior Ed Bloom: Truth is, I’ve always been thirsty. »

 

Big Fish Quotes

 

Senior Ed Bloom: You are in for a surprise.
Will Bloom: Am I?
Senior Ed Bloom: Havin’ a kid changes everything. There’s the diapers, and the burping, and the midnight feeding.
Will Bloom: Did you do any of that?
Senior Ed Bloom: Nope. But I hear it’s terrible. Then you spend years trying to corrupt and mislead this child, fill his head with nonsense, and still it turns out perfectly fine.
Will Bloom: You think I’m up for it?
Senior Ed Bloom: You learned from the best. »

Senior Sandra Bloom: I don’t think I’ll ever dry out. »

Wilbur (Age 10): Is it true she’s got a glass eye? I heard she got it from the gypsies…
Young Don Price: What’s a gypsy?
Ed Bloom (Age 10): Your momma’s a gypsy.
Young Don Price: Your momma’s a bitch. »

Will Bloom: A man tells so many stories, that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal. »

Will Bloom: And then we have to take Glenville to avoid the church traffic because the damn church people drive too slow. »

Will Bloom: Church people drive too slow. »

Will Bloom: Dad, you’re like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny combined… you’re just as charming, and just as fake. »

Will Bloom: Everybody’s there, and I mean everybody. And the strange thing is, there’s not a single sad face… everyone’s so happy to see you. »

Will Bloom: In telling the story of my father’s life, it’s impossible to separate fact from fiction, the man from the myth. The best I can do is to tell it the way he told me. It doesn’t always make sense and most of it never happened… but that’s what kind of story this is. »

Will Bloom: Unbelievable.
Senior Ed Bloom: The story of my life. »
Young Ed Bloom: Sandra Templeton, I love you and I WILL marry you. »

Young Ed Bloom: There are some fish that cannot be caught. It’s not that they’re faster or stronger then the other fish. They’re just touched by something extra. »

Young Ed Bloom: There comes a point when any reasonable man will swallow his pride and admit he made a mistake. The truth is… I was never a reasonable man. »

Young Ed Bloom: It was that night I discovered that most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely, and lacking in the social niceties. »

Young Ed Bloom: Now I may not have much, but I have more determination then any man you’re likely to ever meet. »

Young Ed Bloom: You don’t know me, but my name’s Edward Bloom… And I love you. »

Young Jenny: Promise me You’ll come back
Young Ed Bloom: I promise. Someday. When I’m really supposed to. »

Zacky Price (Age 10): She’ll make soap out of you. That’s what they do, make soap out of people. »

Will Bloom: You know about icebergs, dad?
Senior Ed Bloom: Do I? I saw an iceberg once. They were hauling it down to Texas for drinking water. They didn’t count on there being an elephant frozen inside. The wooly kind. A mammoth.
Will Bloom: Dad!
Senior Ed Bloom: What?
Will Bloom: I’m not trying to make a metaphor here.
Senior Ed Bloom: Well you shouldn’t have started with a question, because people want to answer a question. You should’ve started with “the thing about icebergs is.” »

Young Ed Bloom: Did you get married?
Jenny: Yes, I did. I was 18, he was 28. Turned out to be a big difference. »

Young Ed Bloom: I can’t go back, I’m a human sacrifice. »