Quotes about Telling Stories

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories. Votes: 8

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories. Votes: 8

Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God Votes: 6

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Votes: 6

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe. Votes: 6

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams. Votes: 6

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. Votes: 6

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. Votes: 6

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important. Votes: 6

Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about. Votes: 6

I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling stories through music in lots of different styles of music.' Votes: 6

Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and short of it its pretty much the same thing as acting. Votes: 6

I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the ways in which traditionally men would. I often find that my points of view are expressed by male characters. Votes: 6

Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends. Votes: 6

I've got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories. Votes: 6

I would definitely not rule out doing television in the future because I think it's a great medium for telling stories. And it can also be practically very nice for a family man to have 9 months out of the year where you're in the city, where you're close to your home. Votes: 6

I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories. Votes: 6

Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering. Votes: 6

I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time. Votes: 6

I aspired to be a writer and then I just started getting acting work. I really didn't have a direct goal, I just knew I wanted to be in this industry telling stories and doing this for a job. I thought my path was going to be as a writer, but I'm pretty happy doing it as an actor. Votes: 6

I like telling stories. Votes: 4

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories. Votes: 4

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories. Votes: 4

The human race has been telling stories since it began. Votes: 4

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever. Votes: 4

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories. Votes: 4

Literature is about telling stories. Votes: 3

So much of science proceeds by telling stories. Votes: 3

I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories. Votes: 3

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them. Votes: 3

In my family, telling stories is just a way of life. Votes: 3

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories. Votes: 3

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth. Votes: 3

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect. Votes: 3

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me. Votes: 3

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. Votes: 3

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen. Votes: 3

Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures. Votes: 3

I love telling stories that allow people to be less afraid to tell theirs. Votes: 3

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories. Votes: 3

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music. Votes: 3

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels. Votes: 3

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels." Votes: 3

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had. Votes: 3

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. Votes: 3

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them. Votes: 3

Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories. Votes: 3

Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories. Votes: 3

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with. Votes: 3

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Votes: 3

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories. Votes: 3

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with Votes: 3

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that. Votes: 3

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it. Votes: 3

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it. Votes: 3

I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people. Votes: 3

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. Votes: 3

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people. Votes: 3

I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my days off. Votes: 3

Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different. Votes: 3

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories. Votes: 3

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. Votes: 3

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories. Votes: 3

I would definitely not rule out doing television, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories. Votes: 3

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly. Votes: 3

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival. Votes: 3

I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually. Votes: 3

I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.' Votes: 3

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor. Votes: 3

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting. Votes: 3

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while. Votes: 3

I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful. Votes: 3

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid. Votes: 3

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music. Votes: 3

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories. Votes: 3

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me. Votes: 3

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories. Votes: 3

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing. Votes: 3

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories. Votes: 3

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter. Votes: 3

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories. Votes: 3

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier. Votes: 3

Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible. Votes: 3

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women. Votes: 3

I love telling stories. Creating a character, a world, a whole universe out of nothing. That part I can't get enough of. Votes: 3

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good. Votes: 3

I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most. Votes: 3

Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick. Votes: 3

I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. Votes: 3

My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people. Votes: 3

I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song. Votes: 3

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories. Votes: 3

The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you're way ahead of the game. Votes: 3

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera. Votes: 3

And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real Votes: 3

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories and directing. Votes: 3

[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic." Votes: 3

I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to. Votes: 3

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me. Votes: 3

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. Votes: 3

I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis. Votes: 3

You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down. Votes: 3

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for. Votes: 3

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive. Votes: 3

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days? Votes: 3

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way. Votes: 3

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view. Votes: 3

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process. Votes: 3

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch. Votes: 3

I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me. Votes: 3

I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens. Votes: 3

More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling. Votes: 3

We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop. Votes: 3

I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories. Votes: 3

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories. Votes: 3

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do. Votes: 3

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed. Votes: 3

I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this. Votes: 3

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together. Votes: 3

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning. Votes: 3

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories. Votes: 3

My way of telling stories is kind of what I do naturally. It's no different from how I would talk to you if you were in my living room. Votes: 3

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories. Votes: 3

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story. Votes: 3

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing. Votes: 3

In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila. Votes: 3

I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country. Votes: 3

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day. Votes: 3

As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh. I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories. Votes: 3

I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding. Votes: 3

Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories. Votes: 3

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me. Votes: 3

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things. Votes: 3

Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front of a live audience. You get to have fun telling stories. Votes: 3

When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits. Votes: 3

I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story. Votes: 3

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic. Votes: 3

I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids. Votes: 3

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan. Votes: 3

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all the thoughts and ideas that we have inside of ourselves. Votes: 3

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening. Votes: 3

I did Popeye and Ronald Reagan and everybody was saying things like "yeah he's a cute little kid" but I started, little by little, telling stories about people I'd met and expanded my voices. Votes: 3

The recent controversy over the portrayal of Ken Taylor and his embassy staff in the movie 'Argo' brought home to me the great responsibility we writers have when telling stories that involve real people. Votes: 3

I was an athlete growing up and I miss that. I miss hanging out with dudes and making raunchy jokes and telling stories, trading details, you know? There's something I really miss about that. Votes: 3

When everyone is catching great waves and out in the line up telling stories and having a laugh, you have the best times. I also get really psyched surfing or running in the rain. Votes: 3

[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm! Votes: 3

I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth. Votes: 3

People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do. Votes: 3

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change. Votes: 3

I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties. Votes: 3

I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting truth to enter the heads of those who could not appreciate its charms. Votes: 3

As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living. Votes: 3

When I was in Boy Scouts, back in the day, we'd tell stories around the campfire. That's why I love movies. It's literally you and your friends, telling stories around a campfire, whatever they may be. Votes: 3

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too! Votes: 3

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures. Votes: 3

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories. Votes: 3

I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling. Votes: 3

I remember that - you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling. Votes: 3

When I started out, I really struggled as a comic because no one knew who I was, and sometimes I was telling stories, so it would take a while for people to get on board for things. Votes: 3

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth. Votes: 3

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do. Votes: 3

If you want to be a director, work with writers and find different ways of telling stories with film, then do a course. This way you can consolidate what you've learnt and use the course to go further. Votes: 3

That's how people live, by telling stories. What's the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? "Tell me a story." That's how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything. Votes: 3

My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition. Votes: 3

A myth is 'a narrative involving supernatural or fancied persons embodying popular ideas or social phenomena.' Women love telling stories . . . the girl-group is a gigantic narrative full of morality tales locked up like charms in a crystallized sound." Votes: 3

I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors. Votes: 3

As an artist, I am interested in telling stories that haven't been told before, stories that are going to affect people, and also stories that shine light on areas of history that haven't had light shined on them before. Votes: 3

I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me. Votes: 3

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me. Votes: 3

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen. Votes: 3

I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I've always loved film, but I was making drawings and paintings and photographs. And you put art and narrative together, and that really is comics. Votes: 3

Every now and then, people will recognize me at restaurants or Universal Studios or something. I'll always take a picture with them if they want. I mean, that's what telling stories and acting for a living are for - for the people. Votes: 3

I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism. Votes: 3

I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father. Votes: 3

I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories. Votes: 3

I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories. Votes: 3

I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry you to another place which you've never been. And you feel like you're just enveloped by the book and the characters. Votes: 3

Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about. Votes: 3

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did Go, so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane. Votes: 3

Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The important thing to remember is, you know how to do this. You’ve been doing this your whole life. Votes: 3

Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring. Votes: 3

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane. Votes: 3

I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I first started telling stories. And that, I mean, that show is a little bit of a fortress. It's really hard to get stuff on that show. Votes: 3

Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories. Votes: 3

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there. Votes: 3

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.' Votes: 3

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't. Votes: 3

Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now. Votes: 3

Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now." Votes: 3

I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images. Votes: 3

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories. Votes: 3

When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.' Votes: 3

My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some highlight film of him from college. I remember thinking he looked really small. Which is funny, because growing up, I thought he was a pretty big guy. Votes: 3

The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as he's anything else. He takes time telling stories, too. Votes: 3

As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards. Votes: 3

When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece. Votes: 3

I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories. Votes: 3

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story. Votes: 3

I decided to go to the cinema school because I thought it was a new sort of media. Nowadays, it's not anymore, but in the '50s, cinema had a half century of age. Today it's more than one century. I thought it was a new media, a new way of telling stories. Votes: 3

I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me. Votes: 3

I do think that even with entertainment and telling stories, people in the entertainment industry have such a beautiful position in the world to speak about things that they're passionate about in a way that can grab people more than just sitting and telling someone about something, because you can show it visually. Votes: 3

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence. Votes: 3

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love. Votes: 3

When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation. Votes: 3

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. Votes: 3

One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day. Votes: 3

My favorite monster has always been the zombie. They are so much fun. They can be scary, pathetic, sad, funny, tragic, even heroic. They are the most elastic monster because, even with all of that, they don't interfere with telling stories about the humans. They serve as threats and metaphors, but they allow the story to be about people. Votes: 3

I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, 'You've got to go to this youth theater.' I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories. Votes: 3

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living. Votes: 3

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels. Votes: 3

I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories. Votes: 3

Images are no longer what they used to be. They can't be trusted any more. We all know that. You know that. When we grew up, images were telling stories and showing them. Now they're all into selling. They've changed under our very eyes. They don't even know how to do it anymore. They've plain forgotten. Images are selling out the world. And at a big discount. Votes: 3

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down. Votes: 3

I'm telling the same story in every film. Votes: 2

I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me. Votes: 2

Each song, you're telling a story and acting. Votes: 2

I love political dramas. I love good story-telling. Votes: 2

The telling of stories creates the real world. Votes: 2

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves. Votes: 2

I'm just basically telling a story of my life. Votes: 2

There is nothing wrong with just telling the story. Votes: 2

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege. Votes: 2

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child. Votes: 2

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story. Votes: 2

I'd say Rob Reiner's 'When Harry Met Sally' is my all-time favorite. It made me realize there's a way of telling a story where the audience is so in love with the characters that they forget you're even telling a story. Votes: 2

some stories don't need telling Votes: 0

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. Votes: 0

I guess some stories do not need telling. Votes: 0

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide. Votes: 0

Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Votes: 0

The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act. Votes: 0

I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories. Votes: 0

Help shape the stories that people are telling about you. Votes: 0

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe. Votes: 0

There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio. Votes: 0

I love comedy, I love drama, and I love telling good stories. Votes: 0

I love telling good stories and I love playing powerful, strong women. Votes: 0

Telling stories on behalf of brands is what I've done all my life. Votes: 0

My mother was a very hard-working maid, and their stories are worth telling. Votes: 0

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories. Votes: 0

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them. Votes: 0

You have to appreciate the readers, without them there are no stories worth telling. Votes: 0

All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling. Votes: 0

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories. Votes: 0

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story. Votes: 0

When you have fans telling you their stories it makes you feel like you're not alone. Votes: 0

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell. Votes: 0

I learned early on that there are all sorts of stories I have no place telling. Votes: 0

I love the adventure of telling all types of stories and trying to conquer each one. Votes: 0

When it comes to telling children stories, they don't need simple language. They need beautiful language. Votes: 0

Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity? Votes: 0

I love drama. My passion is drama. It always has been. I love telling those sorts of stories. Votes: 0

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do. Votes: 0

Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot. Votes: 0

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable. Votes: 0

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. Votes: 0

& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect Votes: 0

I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on. Votes: 0

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition. Votes: 0

I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories. Votes: 0

Sometimes I feel like relationships consist of telling your same life stories to different people until someone finally appreciates them. Votes: 0

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about. Votes: 0

I think theres a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling. Votes: 0

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.... Votes: 0

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. Votes: 0

The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories. Votes: 0

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories. Votes: 0

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in. Votes: 0

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland. Votes: 0

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do. Votes: 0

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. Votes: 0

I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales. Votes: 0

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. Votes: 0

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do. Votes: 0

I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing about. Votes: 0

Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone. Votes: 0

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk. Votes: 0

Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them. Votes: 0

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories. Votes: 0

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener! Votes: 0

I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own. Votes: 0

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories. Votes: 0

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind. Votes: 0

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories. Votes: 0

the flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories Votes: 0

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. Votes: 0

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories. Votes: 0

It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories." Votes: 0

I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone's life in one way or another. Votes: 0

The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God. Votes: 0

Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time. Votes: 0

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me. Votes: 0

Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices. Votes: 0

In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories. Votes: 0

Telling stories, making them come alive is what makes me come alive. So I try to live a life where sharing this vital search of inspiration is a must. Votes: 0

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there. Votes: 0

When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those walls could talk, there's no telling what stories they'd tell. Votes: 0

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story. Votes: 0

To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it. Votes: 0

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling. Votes: 0

I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency in business, although it's one that we don't pay enough attention to. Votes: 0