Telling Stories Quotes

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.

Literature is about telling stories.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

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. So that's definitely a goal for me.

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.

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.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

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

I like telling stories.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or our history, or who we are and our potential.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

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

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

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

I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.

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

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

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

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

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.

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

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

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

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.

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

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.'

[ 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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

I just I love telling stories and as long as I can make my living doing that in all the different mediums that I have been lucky enough to, that's enough for me.

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.