Big Fish Quotes
Amos Calloway : I haven't seen a customer this depressed since the elephant sat on that farmer's wife!
Amos Calloway : [ laughs, beat ]
Amos Calloway : Depressed? [ Karl laughs ]
Amos Calloway : See, the big guy likes it.
Young Ed Bloom : I just saw the woman I'm going to marry, and I lost her.
Amos Calloway : [ laughs, beat ]
Amos Calloway : Depressed? [ Karl laughs ]
Amos Calloway : See, the big guy likes it.
Young Ed Bloom : I just saw the woman I'm going to marry, and I lost her.
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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.
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Sandra Bloom : You don't even know me.
Young Ed Bloom : I have the rest of my life to find out.
Young Ed Bloom : I have the rest of my life to find out.
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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.
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Josephine : Oh, so this is a tall tale?
Senior Ed Bloom : Well, it's not a short one.
Senior Ed Bloom : Well, it's not a short one.
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Young Ed Bloom : She said that the biggest fish in the river gets that way by never being caught.
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Young Jenny : There's leaches in there.
Young Ed Bloom : Did you see that woman?
Young Jenny : What did she look like?
Young Ed Bloom : Well, she was, uh...
Young Jenny : Was she naked?
Young Ed Bloom : Yeah, she was.
Young Jenny : It's not a woman. It's a fish. No one's ever catched her.
Young Ed Bloom : Did you see that woman?
Young Jenny : What did she look like?
Young Ed Bloom : Well, she was, uh...
Young Jenny : Was she naked?
Young Ed Bloom : Yeah, she was.
Young Jenny : It's not a woman. It's a fish. No one's ever catched her.
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Josephine : [ the phoe rings as a pregnant Josephine and Will come home from the grocery store, she lays the bags down and answers the phone ] Qui appelle? Yes. Yes, he's here. [ she turns to Will and extends the phone ]
Josephine : It's your mother.
Will Bloom : [ he takes the phone ] Hi. [ he holds up a 'one second' sign as he talks to her ]
Will Bloom : What does Dr.Bennet say? No, sure, I'll talk to him. Yeah, I'll wait.
Josephine : It's bad?
Will Bloom : Yeah, it's more than they thought. They're gonna stop chemo.
Josephine : You need to go.
Will Bloom : Probably tonight.
Josephine : I'm going with you.
Will Bloom : No, no, no. You shouldn't. [ he places his hand on Josephine's stomach ]
Josephine : I'm going with you. [ Will strokes her face ]
Josephine : It's your mother.
Will Bloom : [ he takes the phone ] Hi. [ he holds up a 'one second' sign as he talks to her ]
Will Bloom : What does Dr.Bennet say? No, sure, I'll talk to him. Yeah, I'll wait.
Josephine : It's bad?
Will Bloom : Yeah, it's more than they thought. They're gonna stop chemo.
Josephine : You need to go.
Will Bloom : Probably tonight.
Josephine : I'm going with you.
Will Bloom : No, no, no. You shouldn't. [ he places his hand on Josephine's stomach ]
Josephine : I'm going with you. [ Will strokes her face ]
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Norther Winslow : I've been working on this poem for 12 years.
Young Ed Bloom : Really?
Norther Winslow : There's a lot of expectation. I don't wanna disappoint my fans.
Young Ed Bloom : May I?
Young Ed Bloom : [ Edward reeds the poem on the notebook ] The grass so green Skies so blue. Spectre is really great!
Young Ed Bloom : It's only three lines long.
Norther Winslow : This is why you should never show a work in progress.
Young Ed Bloom : Really?
Norther Winslow : There's a lot of expectation. I don't wanna disappoint my fans.
Young Ed Bloom : May I?
Young Ed Bloom : [ Edward reeds the poem on the notebook ] The grass so green Skies so blue. Spectre is really great!
Young Ed Bloom : It's only three lines long.
Norther Winslow : This is why you should never show a work in progress.
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Young Ed Bloom : There are some fish that cannot be caught. It's not that they are faster or stronger than other fish, they're just touched by something extra.
Young Ed Bloom : There are some fish that cannot be caught. It's not that they are faster or stronger than other fish, they're just touched by something extra.
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Will Bloom : That was my father's final joke, I guess. A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him. And in that way he becomes immortal.
Will Bloom : That was my father's final joke, I guess. A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him. And in that way he becomes immortal.
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Senior Ed Bloom : What do you want, Will? Who do you want me to be?
Will Bloom : Just yourself. Good, bad, everything. Just show me who you are for once.
Will Bloom : Just yourself. Good, bad, everything. Just show me who you are for once.
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Will Bloom : [ to Edward Bloom ] Dad, I have no idea who you are because you have never told me a single fact.
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Young Ed Bloom : [ voice over narration ] As soon as my bones had settled in their adult configuration, I set upon my plan to make a bigger place for myself in Ashton.
Pretty Girl : Edward Bloom!
Pretty Girl : Edward Bloom!
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Senior Ed Bloom : [ to Will ] Your mother was never supposed to marry me. She was engaged to somebody else.
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Young Ed Bloom : [ voice over narration ] I was the biggest thing Ashton had ever seen. Until one day, a stranger arrived.
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Young Ed Bloom : [ voice over narration ] It occurred to me then, that perhaps the reason for my growth was I was intended for larger things. After all, a giant man can't have an ordinary-sized life.
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Young Ed Bloom : [ voice over narration ] With my prospects few, I took a job as a traveling salesman. It suited me. If there's one thing you can say about Edward Bloom, it's that I'm a social person.
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