Telling Quotes

3439 Telling quotes by 2398 unique authors

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
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy… — Kate DiCamillo
My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me. — Kevin Durant
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me. — Ted Dekker
I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long,… — Viola Davis
You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing… — Willem Dafoe
Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got… — Janet Evanovich
I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit. — John Engler
When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing… — James Frey
For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me. — Missy Franklin
I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive… — Sky Ferreira
When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone,… — Summer Glau
I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that… — Jacques Audiard
It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to put them together… — Patrick J. Adams
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… — Patrick J. Adams
When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what… — America Ferrera
You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words… — Winston Churchill
There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction. To that and… — Donna Levin
I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain. — Bob Dylan
I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe… — James Taylor
You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition… — Krzysztof Kieslowski
The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and telling us what… — Russell Peters
A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging… — Jane Campion
For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't… — Jane Campion
When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories. — Dario Fo

Who Wrote These Telling Quotes

2,398 authors contributed a total of 3,439 Telling Quotes, led by these top contributors: