Telling stories Quotes · Page 8

My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories.

— Lisa Stansfield

When everyone is catching great waves and out in the line up telling stories and having a laugh, you have the best…

— Sally Fitzgibbons

For me, I really enjoy telling stories and helping the younger generation, young actors to have the same opportunity I did.

— Michael B. Jordan

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as…

— Sarah Zettel

“My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and…

— Ken Scott

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…

— Stephen King

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

— Carmen Agra Deedy

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.

— Lauren Myracle

I love how 'Game of Thrones' has resonated with so many people around the world. I feel like it has really tapped…

— Richard Brake

I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we…

— Colm Meaney

Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and…

— John Cena

By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that…

— Susan Campbell Bartoletti

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the…

— JoAnn Ross

Acting is an amazing job. I'm very lucky to do it, and when you're working with terrific people, telling stories you care…

— Shaun Evans

On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did…

— Kate DiCamillo

For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored…

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Bill Frakes

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

— Greg Berlanti

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

— Christine Vachon

“I am not trying to make a point by telling stories. Chosen examples are never serious evidence for any worthwhile generalization.”

— Richard Dawkins

I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of…

— Miguel Gomes

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…

— Aaron Sorkin

“How can everyone help bring peace to the world? By not being ashamed of who they are and by acting according to…

— Paulo Coelho

“When my children were little, always I had to explain things. Now they don't ask much more, have I become more stupid?”

— Hannu Vilponen

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

— Sophie Marceau

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

— Jaco Van Dormael

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

— Roxane Gay

The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you're way ahead of…

— John C. McGinley

I've been a big fan of telling stories with young people that have a strong sense of reality.

— David Nutter

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

— Chris Pratt

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

— T. J. Thyne

My way of telling stories is kind of what I do naturally. It's no different from how I would talk to you…

— Henry Cho

I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make…

— Yuval Noah Harari

As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh. I guess…

— Wyck Godfrey

I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my…

— Pamela Love

Telling stories, making them come alive is what makes me come alive. So I try to live a life where sharing this…

— Soko

I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.

— Kate Thompson

I want to get in on how the media business is changing, how people are telling stories in new ways.

— Daniel Lyons

It is important that we continue to keep telling stories from new perspectives and have proper representation on our screens, because it…

— Ncuti Gatwa

“I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to…

— Joan Didion