Storytelling quotes

“In each and every moment we're composing stories of our lives, let's aim to make it a meaningful read... or at least an interesting one.”
Johnny Depp - Richard

“You have to adopt the mentality of an Irish street cop: the world is a bad place, people are lazy morons, minorities are criminals, sex is sick but interesting. Ask yourself, what would scare my grandmother or piss off my grandfather? And that's a Fox story.”
Kate McKinnon - Jess Carr

“Good evening. How's it going? Listen, girls... uh... as your father, I feel it incumbent upon me to set the record straight on the validity of the tale which Uncle Chet shared with us this evening. I know that a terrifying story like that coming from the mouth of a recognized authority figure could be traumatizing for kids like yourselves; I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dan Aykroyd - Roman Craig

“- Cole: You ever heard the story of the mouse, the lion, and the thorn?
- Mills: Yeah?
- Cole: There you go, then. In case we ever see that primate again.
- Mills: You do know that story is about a mouse becoming friends with the lion after taking the thorn out of his paw though, right?
- Cole: No it's not. The mouse kills the lion with the thorn.”
Shea Whigham - Cole
Jason Mitchell - Mills

“A mad genius. An unholy creation. The world, of course, remembers the monster, not the man. But sometimes, when you look closely, there's more to a tale. Sometimes the monster is the man.”

Daniel Radcliffe - Igor

“Every story ever told can be broken down into three parts. The beginning. The middle. And the twist.”

Jack Black - Stine

“All we got to do is tell the story right.”

Taye Diggs - Pike

What do ya got here, anyways? "Rainbow Alligator Saves the Wetlands?". Uh, no. "The Organic Squirrel Gets a Bike Helmet?". I'm not reading these Communist books to you guys! Don't you got any real stories?

Adam Sandler - Skeeter Bronson

“There's no such thing as an ending; just a place where you leave the story.”
Maggie Smith - Muriel Donnelly

“Give him a gold piece and send him home. He has a story to tell.”

Ray Winstone - Beowulf

“Most men, they'll tell you a story straight through. It won't be complicated, but it won't be interesting either.”
Albert Finney - Ed Bloom - Senior

Now, you are family. Okay. All my life, I had a lump at the back of my neck, right here. Always, a lump. Then I started menopause and the lump got bigger from the "hormonees." It started to grow. So I go to the doctor, and he did the bio... the b... the... the bios... the... b... the "bobopsy." Inside the lump he found teeth and a spinal cord.... (continue)(continue reading)

Andrea Martin - Aunt Voula

“- Peter Mitchell: The champ caught Smith with a savage left hook...
- Michael Kellam: What are you reading her?
- Peter Mitchell: It doesn't matter what I read, it's the tone you use. She doesn't understand the words anyway, now where were we?”

Tom Selleck - Peter Mitchell
Steve Guttenberg - Michael Kellam

“Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!”
Mako - The Wizard

“I remember this story of an evil witch, and the princess she cursed to sleep forever. The story became legend. But this is no fairy tale.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Queen Ingrith

I'd give each one of them a stick and, one for each one of them, then I'd say: "You break that". Of course they could real easy. Then I'd say: "Tie them sticks in a bundle and try to break that". Of course they couldn't. Then I'd say: "That bundle... that's family".
Richard Farnsworth - Alvin

“My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.”
Djimon Hounsou

“- Daniel Hackett: Who are you?
- Pecos Bill: I'm a ring-tailed roarer. I can draw faster, shoot straighter, ride harder and drink longer than any man alive. I ride cyclones and I wrestle...
- Daniel Hackett: You got a name, don't you?
- Pecos Bill: I'm getting' to that. I'm the rip-snortinest cowboy that ever rode north, south, east or west of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nick Stahl - Daniel Hackett
Patrick Swayze - Pecos Bill

“- Kim: Snuggle in, sweetie. It's cold out there.
- Granddaughter: Why is it snowing, Grandma?
- Kim: Oh, that's a long story.
- Granddaughter: I want to hear.
- Kim: Oh, not tonight. Go to sleep.
- Granddaughter: I'm not sleepy. Tell me, please?
- Kim: Well, all right. Let's see...I guess it would have to start with scissors.
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Winona Ryder - Kim
Gina Gallagher - Granddaughter

"Human interest story" is a euphemism for stories about weak-minded, vulnerable, ignorant people, to fill in newspapers read by vulnerable, weak-minded, ignorant people.
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

“But do you know when stories stop being stories? The moment someone begins to believe in them.”
Simon Callow - Codringher

“ How many great stories are tragedies?”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Hercule Poirot

“Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens while we’re awake.”
Jason Momoa - Duncan Idaho

“I believed that stories helped us to ennoble ourselves, to fix what was broken in us, and to help us become the people we dreamed of being. Lies that told a deeper truth.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Robert Ford

“I got into this business because I love stories. They comfort us, they inspire us, they create a context for how we experience the world. But also, you have to be careful, because if you spend a lot of time with stories, you start to believe that life is just stories, and it’s not. Life is life, and that’s so sad because there’s so little time...” (continue)(continue reading)
Amy Sedaris - Princess Carolyn