Quotes About Stories

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

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

Spreading the positivity is just as important as telling the difficult stories.

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

I have a bunch of storylines that I could pass to other performers or especially all my knowledge that I have when it comes to building matches, to creating an exciting finish or telling stories in the ring.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who's living them? You don't play characters that are celebrities - you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank's blocked.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

For me, growing-up music was always about telling stories.

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, you're getting really big laughs. I don't necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. 'Caddyshack' is amazing, but there's not a lot of new 'Caddyshack's.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

When I started out, I really struggled as a comic because no one knew who I was, and sometimes I was telling stories, so it would take a while for people to get on board for things.

No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.

I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that fall within rules.

When you're on an independent film, you have a lot of great people there who are telling really true and authentic stories. But you also have a lot of con artists and people who think they can do something that they can't.