Big Fish (2003)
Ewan McGregor: Ed Bloom (young)
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Quotes
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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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[first lines]
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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[When meeting young Sandra Templeton for the first time]
Young Ed Bloom : You don't know me but my name is Edward Bloom and I love you.
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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.
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Karl : I don't want to eat you. I just get so hungry. I'm just too big.
Young Ed Bloom : Did you ever think that maybe you're not too big, but maybe this town is just too small?
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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 : 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.
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Young Ed Bloom : She said that the biggest fish in the river gets that way by never getting caught.
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Young Ed Bloom : Sandra Templeton, I love you and I WILL marry you.
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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.
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Young Ed Bloom : And what I recall of Sunday school was that the more difficult something became, the more rewarding it was in the end.
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[Amos returns from the woods after being a wolf for a night]
Amos Calloway : Didn't kill anything, did I?
Young Ed Bloom : A couple of rabbits, but I think one of 'em was already dead.
Amos Calloway : That would explain the indigestion.
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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.
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Young Ed Bloom : Now I may not have much, but I have more determination then any man you're ever likely to meet.
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Young Ed Bloom : Your last name is different. You married.
Jenny : I was 18, he was 28. Turns out it was a big difference.
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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.
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Amos Calloway : She likes music.
Young Ed Bloom : [smiles] Music. She likes music.
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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 ever catches her.
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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 : The biggest fish in the river gets that way by never getting caught.
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Young Ed Bloom : This isn't how I die.
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Young Jenny : Promise me you'll come back
Young Ed Bloom : I promise. Someday. When I'm really supposed to.
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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!
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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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Karl : Friend, what happened to your shoes?
Young Ed Bloom : [Looking down at his feet] They kinda got ahead of me.
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Young Ed Bloom : You don't know me, but my name's Edward Bloom... And I love you.
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Young Ed Bloom : 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.
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Young Ed Bloom : I can't go back, I'm a human sacrifice.
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[Ed and Norther are in line at a bank together]
Young Ed Bloom : And now what are you doing?
Norther Winslow : I'm robbin' this place!
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Ping : [in Cantonese, to Edward who was hiding in the dressing room] Who are you?
Young Ed Bloom : [In Cantonese] Please, I'm not going to hurt you.
Jing : [In Cantonese] Damn right you're not! GUARD!
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Mildred : [arriving in the town of Spectre] You must have taken a shortcut.
Young Ed Bloom : I did. It nearly killed me.
Beamen : Mmm-hmm. Life'll do that to you. And truthfully, the long way is easier - but it's longer.
Mildred : [big unnatural grin] Much longer.
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Jenny : I'll be here, and you'll come and go as you please, to one place or another. Do I have that right?
Young Ed Bloom : Strange to hear it put that way, but, in so many words, yes.
Jenny : Then I don't think so Mr. Bloom. If nothing is going to change, I'd just as soon it not change in the way it hasn't been changing all this time.