“That was my father's final joke, I guess. The man tells his stories...” – Will Bloom, Big Fish ... Movie Quotes Database

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.

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Jenny 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 Fate has a way of circling back on a man, and taking him by surprise. A man sees things differently at different times in his life. This town didn't seem the same now that he was older. Edward 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? Edward 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.