Ewan McGregor credited as playing...
Ed Bloom (young)
- 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.
- [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.
- [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.
- Karl: I don't want to eat you. I just get so hungry. I'm just too big.
- Young Ed Bloom: Did you ever think that maybe you're not too big, but maybe this town is just too small?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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: And what I recall of Sunday school was that the more difficult something became, the more rewarding it was in the end.
- [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: 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.
- 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 ever catches her.
- Young Ed Bloom: [voice over narration] I was the biggest thing Ashton had ever seen. Until one day, a stranger arrived.