The best Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection.

I think when we wake up in the morning, we can choose between fear and love. Every morning. And every morning, if you choose one, that doesn't define you until the end... The way you end your story is important. It's important that we choose love over fear, because love is the answer.

For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.

There is beauty and humility in imperfection.

I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

If your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.

The world is full of temptations.

The merry laughter of little innocent children wending their way to school. Thirsty little minds rushing to the fountain of knowledge.

Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight.
I wish I may, I wish I might.
Have the wish I make tonight.
I wished that my little Pinocchio might be a real boy.

Little puppet made of pine, awake. The gift of life is thine.

Blue Fairy: "I've given you life."
Pinocchio: "Why?"
Blue Fairy: "Because tonight, Geppetto wished for a real boy."

Little wooden head go play your part
Bring a little joy to every heart
Little do you know and yet it's true
That I'm mighty proud of you

Now, remember, Pinocchio: be a good boy. And always let your conscience be your guide.

Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true

A boy who won't be good might just as well be made of wood.

Pinocchio: "Am I a real boy?"
Blue Fairy: "No, Pinocchio. To make Geppetto's wish come true will be entirely up to you."

Geppetto: "Besides, tomorrow you've got to go to school."
Pinocchio: "Why?"
Geppetto: "To learn things and get smart."
Pinocchio: "Why?"
Geppetto: "Because."
Pinocchio: "Oh."

The one thing that makes human life precious and meaningful, you see, is how brief it is.

But little did I know that death was not the end.

Life can bring great suffering. And eternal life can bring eternal suffering.

Pinocchio: "And you loved him very much?"
Gepetto: "I did. I do."

People are sometimes afraid of things they don't know.

Life is such a wonderful gift!

The wooden boy with the borrowed soul. While you may have eternal life, your loved ones, they do not. Every moment shared with them may be the very last.

Sometimes, fathers feel despair like everybody else. And they say things, they only think they mean in the moment. But with time, they learn that they never really meant it at all.

I want to tell you a story. It's a story you may think you know, but... you don't. Not really.

"He's just a puppet!"
"No, I'm not! I'm a real boy!"

You may have no strings, but I control you!

Step right up in the home of one of the unexplained mysteries of the universe - is he man or beast?

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

Imperfections make someone perfect to me.

Today is the end of Argentina's decline. Today is the end of the model of an omnipresent state that impoverishes Argentines.

Micky Mouse is the aspiration of every Argentine politician because he is a disgusting rodent whom everybody loves.