Big Fish (2003) · 51 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Big Fish (2003): in 12 of its 51 quotes
Most scenes with: Jenny (7), Edward Bloom (4), Josephine (2)
Okay, okay— 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 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 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.
Having a kid changes everything. I mean, there's the diapers and the burping and the midnight feedings...
Will Did you do any of that?
No, but I hear it's terrible. Then you spend years trying to corrupt and mislead this child, fill its head with nonsense and still it turns out perfectly fine.
You never told me how your parents met.
Will They met at Auburn.
What about the details? How they fell in love. The Circus. The War. You never told me any of that.
Will That's because most of it never happened.
But it's romantic.
Will You have to understand. When I was growing up, he was gone more than he was here. And I started thinking— maybe he has a second life somewhere else. With another family, another house— he leaves us, he goes to them. Or maybe there is no second family. Maybe he never wanted a family. But whatever it is, maybe he likes that second life better. And the reason he tells all those stories is because he can't stand this boring place.
But it's not true.
Will What is "true"? He's never told me a single true thing.
What do you want, Will? Who do you want me to be?
Will Yourself. Good, bad, everything. Just show me who you are for once.
I have been nothing but myself since the day I was born. And if you can't see that, it's your failing, not mine.
Sandra It was during the war. Your father went missing. They thought he was dead.
Will That really happened?
Sandra Not everything your father says is a complete fabrication.
One day, Edward Bloom left, and never returned to the town he'd saved. As for the girl, the common belief was that she'd become a witch, and crazy at that. She became something of a legend herself. And the story ended where it began.
Will Well, logically, you couldn't be the witch, because she was old when he was young.
Well, it's logical if you think like your father. See, to him, there's only two women: your mother and everyone else... And one day I realized I was in love with a man who could never love me back. I was living in a fairy tale... I'm not sure I should have told you any of this... I wanted to be as important to him as you were, and I was never going to be. I was make-believe and... his other life, you, you were real.
Will As we get closer to the river, we see that everybody's already there. And I mean everyone. It's unbelievable.
The story of my life.
Will You become what you always were. A very big fish. And that's how it happens.
Yeah. Exactly.
Will As we get-as we get close to the river, we see that everybody is already there.
Will And I mean everyone...it's-it's unbelievable.
The story...of my life.
Will And the strange thing is,there's not a sad face to be found,everyone is just so glad to see you.And send you off right.
Will You become what you always were...a very big fish...and that's how it happens.
Exactly.
