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Quotes from the movie Big Fish
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There are some fish that cannot be caught. It's not that they're faster or stronger than other fish. They're just touched by something extra. Call it luck. Call it grace. One such fish was "The Beast".
Edward Bloom


Sometimes, the only way to catch an uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring.
Edward Bloom


I was trying to find a cure to my gigantificationism...
Edward Bloom


Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard. Witches use those bones to cast spells and curses that make the land infertile... Yet of the all the witches in Alabama, there was one who was the most feared. For she had one glass eye, which was said to contain mystical powers.
Edward Bloom


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.
Edward Bloom


I was never much for being at home, Will. It's too confining. And this, here... being stuck in bed. Dying is the worst thing that ever happened to me.
Edward Bloom


Armed with the foreknowledge of my own death, I knew the giant couldn't kill me. All the same, I preferred to keep my bones unbroken.
Edward Bloom


Oh, come on. I can't go back, I'm a human sacrifice. If I go back they'll think I'm a coward. I'd rather be dinner than a coward.
Edward Bloom


The biggest fish in the river gets that way by never being caught.
Edward Bloom


There were two roads out of Ashton, a new one which was paved, and an older one that wasn't. People didn't use the old road anymore, and it had developed the reputation of being haunted. Well, Since I had no intention of ever returning to Ashton, this seemed as good a time as any to find out what lay down that old road.
Edward Bloom


Now, there comes a point where a reasonable man will swallow his pride and admit that he's made a terrible mistake. The truth is, I was never a reasonable man.
Edward Bloom


What I recalled of Sunday School was that the more difficult something became, the more rewarding it was in the end.
Edward Bloom


I agreed to spend the afternoon, if only to understand the mystery of how a place could feel so strange, and yet so familiar.
Edward Bloom


This town is more than any man could ask for. And if I were to end up here, I'd consider myself lucky. But the truth is, I'm not ready to end up anywhere.
Edward Bloom


As difficult as it was to reach Spectre, I was fated to get there eventually. After all, no man can avoid reaching the end of his life.
Edward Bloom


This isn't how I die.
Edward Bloom


We didn't have a proper wedding. Your mother-in-law was never supposed to marry me. She was engaged to somebody else.
Edward Bloom


It was on that night Karl met his destiny. And I met mine. Almost.
Edward 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 once time starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.
Edward Bloom


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


Fate has a cruel way of circling around on you. After all this work to leave Ashton, the girl I loved was now engaged to one of its biggest jerks. There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool will continue. The truth is, I've always been a fool.
Edward Bloom


Sandra Templeton! I love you! And I will marry you!
Edward Bloom


While I took the beating of a lifetime, it was Don Price who was ultimately defeated.
Edward Bloom


Truth is, I've been thirsty my whole life. Never really known why.
Edward Bloom


Y'see, most men, they'll tell a story straight throughó it won't be complicated, but it won't be interesting either.
Edward Bloom


In telling the story of my father's life, it's impossible to separate the fact from the 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


Everyone loves my father. He's a very likeable guy.
Will Bloom


Okay, okayó The thing about icebergs is you only see 10 percent. The other 90 percent is below the water where you can't see it.That's what it is with you Dad. I'm only seeing this little bit that sticks above the water.
Will Bloom


That was my father's final joke, I guess. The 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


It's not a woman, it's a fish. No one ever catches her. Fish looks diff'rent to diff'rent people. My daddy said it looked like the coon dog he had when he was kid...back from the dead.
Jenny


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