Big Fish Quotes - Page 2

• The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.

  Mae West

  Real, Cutting, Air

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• The producers and I first talked about the Big Fish musical, right before we did the first test screening of the movie. I said, "I think there's a Broadway musical here." And really, from that day, we started figuring out how we would do it.

  John August

  Thinking, Musical, Broadway

  Source: collider.com

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• Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.

  John August

  Children, Yards, Towns

  "Fictional character: Edward Bloom". Big Fish, 2003.

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• Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

  Ann Landers

  Home, Men, Honest

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• I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool

  Mindy Kaling

  Swimming, College, Community

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.47, Three Rivers Press

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• But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

  Maxim Gorky

  Bait, Poor, Bigs

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• The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

  George R. R. Martin

  Storm, Paddling, Littles

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.808, Bantam

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• A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

  Billy Crudup

  Men, Stories, Way

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• I don't get pat down, you know what's on the waist,
  I don't mean Jazz when I say I "count base."
  Fly Louis sneakers, Purple Tape coming out the speakers,
  Bumped into my high school teachers,
  They said I wouldn't be nothing, sitting on the bleachers.
  Now I'm sitting in the Phantom, trynna figure out the features.
  I'm a big fish now, I watch for the leeches.

  Sheek Louch

  Teacher, Rap, School

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• 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 would continue. The truth is, I’ve always been a fool.

  Albert Finney

  Fighting, Destiny, Men

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• The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Running, Middle, Bigs

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• When I was a kid, I felt like I could do anything and play anything. I just felt super-confident. And then, once I started to play music professionally, maybe it's from being from a small town, but you grow up and then you're suddenly a big fish in a small pond, and I realized that there were a billion other drummers out there that could play as good as you or better, and everybody wants that job.

  Patty Schemel

  Jobs, Growing Up, Kids

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• I've always written towards movies that take place across two worlds. Most of the movies that I've worked on take place in two worlds, or sometimes three worlds, where you have a normal world and a fantasy world that mix and overlap. I never shy away from the series stuff in the real world. Big Fish is about mortality.

  John August

  Real, Two, Three

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• To me nature is... spiders and bugs, and big fish eating little fish, and plants eating plans, and animals eating... It's like an enormous restaurant, that's the way I see it.

  Woody Allen

  Animal, Littles, Way

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• Like Frankenweenie is a story about a boy and his dog, Big Fish is the story of a father and his son, and all those conversations you can't have. It's universal, in a way that can go from one medium to another medium. That's been the funnest, figuring out what we can do in a Broadway show that's unique and special.

  John August

  Dog, Father, Son

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• Big Fish was the first movie that we worked on together, and I had already written it. We had another director, but that director didn't do it. So, it was just a Hail Mary to Tim, and Tim said that he wanted to do it and I was like, "That's fantastic!" But, there wasn't a lot of collaboration because he knew what he wanted to do and just did it. There were very minor changes for Big Fish.

  John August

  Together, Directors, Collaboration

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• The best advice I ever got was from Lee Iacocca.... It was get into a business where you can be a big fish, not the little fish. Get into a business where you can be a change agent, where you can make a difference.

  Marcus Lemonis

  Differences, Advice, Making A Difference

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• Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Ocean, Men

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• Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

  David Zucker

  Movie, Thinking, Serious

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.

  David Zucker

  Thinking, Years, Hands

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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