Big Fish quotes

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

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

View Quote 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.

View Quote I was trying to find a cure to my gigantificationism...

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

View Quote 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.

View Quote 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.

View Quote 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.
Josephine: But it's not true.
Will: What is "true"? He's never told me a single true thing.

View Quote Y'see, most men, they'll tell a story straight through— it won't be complicated, but it won't be interesting either.

View Quote 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.

View Quote Everyone loves my father. He's a very likeable guy.

View Quote 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.

View Quote 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.

View Quote This isn't how I die.

View Quote It was on that night Karl met his destiny. And I met mine. Almost.