All Quotes

"What I recalled of Sunday School was that the more difficult something became, the more rewarding it was in the end."

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

"This town is more than any man could ask for. And if I were to end up here, I'd consider myself lucky. But the truth is, I'm not ready to end up anywhere."

"As difficult as it was to reach Spectre, I was fated to get there eventually. After all, no man can avoid reaching the end of his life."

"This isn't how I die."

"We didn't have a proper wedding. Your mother-in-law was never supposed to marry me. She was engaged to somebody else."

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

"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."

"It was that night I discovered that most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely, and lacking in social niceties."

"Fate has a cruel way of circling around on you. After all this work to leave Ashton, the girl I loved was now engaged to one of its biggest jerks. There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool will continue. The truth is, I've always been a fool."

"Sandra Templeton, I love you! And I will marry you!"

"While I took the beating of a lifetime, it was Don Price who was ultimately defeated."

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

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

"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."

"Everyone loves my father. He's a very likable guy."

"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."

"[last lines] 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."

"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."

"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."

"An adventure as big as life itself."

"Ewan McGregor - Edward Bloom (Young)"

"Albert Finney - Edward Bloom (Senior)"

"Billy Crudup - Will Bloom"

"Jessica Lange - Sandra Bloom (Senior)"

"Helena Bonham Carter - Jenny (Young & Senior) & The Witch"

"Alison Lohman - Sandra Bloom (Young)"

"Robert Guillaume - Dr. Bennett (Senior)"

"Marion Cotillard - Josephine"

"Matthew McGrory - Karl the Giant"

"David Denman - Don Price (Age 18-22)"

"Missi Pyle - Mildred"

"Loudon Wainwright III - Beamen"

"Ada Tai - Ping"

"Arlene Tai - Jing"

"Steve Buscemi - Norther Winslow"

"Danny DeVito - Amos Calloway"

"Perry Walston - Edward Bloom (Age 10)"

"Hailey Anne Nelson - Jenny (Age 8)"

"Miley Cyrus - Ruthie (Age 8)"

"The very flower of youth."

"I did not care one straw."

"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly."

"How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!"

"Modo liceat vivere, est spes."

"Nullum est iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius."

"It is up with you; all is over; you are ruined."

"si istuc crederem/sincere dici, quidvis possem perpeti."

"Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!"

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."