The best Quotes by Tim Burton

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

Normality

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

I always liked strange characters.

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

Craziness & Weirdness

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

Kevin Smith Comic Books

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And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up!

Alfred in Batman - Begins

Giving Up Beginning

You see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push!

Joker in Batman - The Dark Knight

Craziness & Weirdness Gravity

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough, sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded...

Batman in Batman - The Dark Knight

Truth

I believe whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.

Joker in Batman - The Dark Knight

I wouldn't give up my family for anything. Not for all the chocolate in the world.

Charlie Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Everything in this room is eatable. Even I'm eatable. But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Food Chocolate

Why would I wanna send a person? They don't taste very good at all.

Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.

Alice In Wonderland

Objectives

Alice: "How long is forever?"
White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

It is impossible only if you think it is.

The Mad Hatter in Alice In Wonderland

I'm not crazy - my reality is just different from yours.

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

Craziness & Weirdness

Life's no fun without a good scare!

The Nightmare Before Christmas

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Halloween

There's an empty place in my bones
That calls out for something unknown
The fame and praise come year after year
Does nothing for these empty tears

Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas

And sit together, now and forever
For it is plain as anyone can see
We're simply meant to be

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Anytime you introduce scale differences in two characters acting on a screen, it complicates things immensely... but the net result is something you don't see everyday, which makes it interesting.

Robert Stromberg (Production Designer)

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.

Edward Bloom in Big Fish

Love Falling in love

Sometimes, the only way to catch an uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring.

Edward Bloom in Big Fish

Weddings Rings

Kept in a small bowl, they will remain small. With more space, the fish can double, triple or quadruple its size.

Edward Bloom in Big Fish

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.

Will Bloom in Big Fish

Sweetheart, you can't buy the necessities of life with cookies.

Edward in Edward Scissorhands

Interviewer: "What's been the best part of your new life here in town, Edward?"
Edward: "The friends I've made."

Edward Scissorhands

Edward: "Kevin, you wanna play scissors, paper, stone again?"
Kevin: "No!"
Edward: "Why not?"
Kevin: "'Cause it's boring. I always win!"

Edward Scissorhands

People are scared of things that are different.

Edward in Edward Scissorhands

Weems: "No doubt you'll find something that tickles your fancy."
Wednesday: "The last person who tickled me lost a finger."

Wednesday Addams in Wednesday - Season 1 Episode 2

Just as long as you're lakeside cheering us to victory on race day... or you can just glare uncomfortably. Whatever works for you.

Enid Sinclair in Wednesday - Season 1 Episode 2

Dead people are notoriously bad at returning calls.

Wednesday Addams in Wednesday - Season 1 Episode 2

Larissa: "So you automatically assume a Nevermore student is the murderer, even though there's no evidence a crime was even committed."
Donovan: "I'm sorry. I forgot, you only teach the good outcasts here, right?"

Donovan Galpin in Wednesday - Season 1 Episode 2

California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

Trevor Noah in The Daily Show - October 2022

California

New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul - Season 6 Episode 5

California New Mexico

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

Kevin Smith

Career

There are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

Graham Chapman

Reason & Sanity Craziness & Weirdness

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Vision Change Famous Quotes Confirmation

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts. Their reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

Itachi Uchiha in Naruto

Reality

Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

Driss in Intouchables

Art

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

Whoopi Goldberg

Craziness & Weirdness Normality

Liking comic books is popular, environmental awareness, being tolerant. If I was just born ten years later, I would have been the coolest person ever.

Morton Schmidt in 21 Jump Street

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