Story Quotes · Page 131

There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of…

— Helen Mirren

I never want to be the all-knowing god of the story, manipulating what's to happen or the action.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I want to tell Miranda's story more broadly than what I have been in these five-minute videos on the Internet. She can…

— Colleen Ballinger

Shaheed' was the first film to win three National Awards. I was the first writer to get the award for story writing.

— Manoj Kumar

We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so…

— Randall Kennedy

At the end of the day, you don't remember 'Mother India' or 'Pyaasa' for the business it did, you remember them because…

— Rajkumar Hirani

'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.

— Kenneth Branagh

I like movies, because it's kind of a combination of every art, it's like it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind…

— Jonathan Jackson

Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel.…

— Gary Krist

Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning…

— Joan Aiken

Every song in 'Groundhog Day' works to forward the story in a chronological, narrative sense, to illuminate the state of mind of…

— Tim Minchin

What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's…

— Halle Berry

Good lawyering is usually cerebral and impersonally. You can convince a judge with a mastery of facts, detail, and precedent - not…

— Ari Melber

Obviously, you're always happy when you can tell a story completely from beginning to end and tell it in a satisfying way,…

— Aaron Stanford

I woke up one day and there were loads of calls on my phone. My best friend was like: bro, go to…

— Ashley Walters

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.

— Oliver North

For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.

— Christopher McQuarrie

There's nothing wrong with a male's point of view, obviously, but it's just a different way of telling a story.

— Melanie Griffith

When I'm done with my last album, I want to make a movie with Tim Burton telling the story of all of…

— Melanie Martinez

I think every character is important in every film - be it small, primary, or lead - because they are adding something…

— Rajkummar Rao

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

— Sidney Sheldon

Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die.

— J.A. Redmerski

I think that the story of a woman who is coming into her powers can really happen at any age.

— Lauren Ambrose

I don't understand why no one understands how I make money when my Instagram account is so popular. I get paid $15k…

— Dillon Danis

It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found.

— Erik Larson

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in…

— Emma Donoghue

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's…

— Tom Hanks

“I didn’t even know a heart could beat so loudly, and it reminds me of an Edgar Allan Poe story”

— Lauren Oliver

I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they…

— Matt Bomer

While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

— Gabourey Sidibe

“the biblical story does not encourage anyone to feel detached from, or somehow superior to, this world of space and time and…

— Craig G. Bartholomew

Story may not be a great addition to some games - games where action is the whole reason for the game to…

— Jane Jensen

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

— Kenneth R. Miller

I've never compromised in the story of 'Ek Tha Tiger' just because Salman Khan is in it.

— Kabir Khan

When a person go to jail, what people don't realize is you're alive, but you're dead to the world. People forget about…

— Roddy Ricch

Whenever I think I'm going to do two films a year, I get another wonderful story, like 'Stree', and I'm like, 'Wow!'

— Rajkummar Rao

I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something -…

— Mark Kurlansky

I barely ever reread the chapter before posting, because I overthink things, and I feel like overediting or trying to use too…

— Anna Todd

It happened the way I come up with any story, which is that I took elements of my own life and put…

— Theodora Goss