Telling A Story Quotes · Page 3

Telling a story is an emotional and personal experience for me and I can't do without it.

— Kanika Dhillon

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

— Tom Hanks

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

— Jackie Evancho

When you're telling a story, you've got to give details.

— Gao Xingjian

“Telling a story is like playing a fiddle. No one want's to hear it when it's done badly”

— Anonymous

Listening to someone telling a story & thinking: Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, and lie.

— Anonymous

I always want to make sure I'm telling a story about people that I care about.

— Joss Whedon

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

— Joshua Bell

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

— Jean Dujardin

Listening to someone telling a story and thinking to yourself, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.

— Anonymous

There's a real art to telling a story in two hours, and that will always be something that people are very, very…

— Paul Sparks

The whole point is you're telling a story to an audience. So when there's no audience, it's like cinematic masturbation.

— Mick Garris

I love to do fashion. I always put fashion in all of my storytelling because that's what I am, but I'm not…

— Patricia Field

In a sense, I may not consciously know what I'm doing. I feel that I'm telling a story. I'm a kind of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

— Edith Pattou

Im telling a story from track one to sixteen, so Im just giving pieces of me every time I touch the mic.

— Yung Berg

I love being convincing. I love when a gesture is convincing and I love doing research for a picture. If you're telling…

— Edward Sorel

Art is so valuable that I think its misuse is really dangerous. When it's used well, when it's telling a story well…

— Asia Kate Dillon

One of the horribly frustrating things about writing feature films is the rules everyone applies and says, 'You have to do this…

— Steven Knight

I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining…

— Bill Bryson

I have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each…

— Tom Stoppard

As a director, I have to do everything. As an actor, I'm just worried about one role, that's it. As a director,…

— Tasha Smith

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent,…

— Haile Gerima

“A short story is not a portrayal of life. When life becomes disconsolate and the fear for the unknown seeps through the…

— Anu Lal

I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a…

— Sol Stein

It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I…

— Kate DiCamillo

“God is at work telling a story of restoration and redemption through your family. Never buy into the myth that you need…

— Reggie Joiner

The moments you are given are your true wealth. You don't need power, influence, or fame. The sunlight brings the power; the…

— Dawna Markova

“In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty…

— Ernst Jentsch

For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people. Sometimes those real…

— Jason Rezaian

“The joy in telling a story is in the magic of spinning the tale, not in the number of exaggerations you can…

— Sarah McCarty

A lot of fashion photographers are telling a story with their pictures.

— Eoin Macken

You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.

— Anonymous

“There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer.”

— Cecelia Ahern

That awkward moment when youre trying to telling a story but nobody is listening to you.

— Anonymous

Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.

— John L'Heureux

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

— Keith Richards

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

— Jimmy Scott

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

— Anonymous