Young Ed Bloom Quotes in Big Fish (2003)

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.

[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.

[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.

Sandra Bloom: You don't even know me.

Young Ed Bloom: I have the rest of my life to find out.

Karl: I don't want to eat you. I just get so hungry. I'm just too big.

Young Ed Bloom: Has it ever occurred to you that maybe you're not too big? That maybe this place is just too small?

Young Ed Bloom: Sandra Templeton, I love you and I WILL marry you.

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.

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.

[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.

Young Ed Bloom: She said that the biggest fish in the river gets that way by never being caught.

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.

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.

Young Ed Bloom: Now I may not have much, but I have more determination then any man you're ever likely to meet.

Young Ed Bloom: Your last name is different. You married.

Jenny: I was 18, he was 28. Turns out it was a big difference.

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.

Amos Calloway: She likes music.

Young Ed Bloom: [smiles] Music. She likes music.

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.

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's ever catched her.

Young Ed Bloom: The biggest fish in the river gets that way by never being caught.

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.

Young Ed Bloom: This isn't how I die.

Young Jenny: Promise me you'll come back

Young Ed Bloom: I promise. Someday. When I'm really supposed to.

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!

Young Ed Bloom: [voice over narration] I was the biggest thing Ashton had ever seen. Until one day, a stranger arrived.

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.

Young Ed Bloom: You don't know me, but my name's Edward Bloom... And I love you.

Amos Calloway: Her favorite flower is daffodils

Young Ed Bloom: Daffodils.

[smiles]

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!

Young Ed Bloom: I can't go back, I'm a human sacrifice.

[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!

Karl: Friend, what happened to your shoes?

Young Ed Bloom: [Looking down at his feet] They kinda got ahead of me.