Storytelling quotes

“Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. And then, one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down and I wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But above all things, a story about love. A love that will live forever.”

Ewan McGregor - Christian

“- Ardeth Bay: This was all preordained thousands of years ago.
- Evelyn: But how does the story end?
- Ardeth Bay: Ah, only the journey is written, not the destination.
- Rick: Convenient.”

Oded Fehr - Ardeth Bay
Rachel Weisz - Evelyn Carnahan
Brendan Fraser - Rick O'Connell

“People pass a bunch of stories around in a tribe and finally someone writes 'em down, and you have religion.”
James Marsden - Derrick Webb

“- Chris: So, when the babysitter looked more closely at the kids, she saw that... they had no faces!
- Sara: Oh my God!
- Chris: Just a pool of mushy goo!
- Sara: Like Spaghetti-O's?
- Chris: Spaghetti-O's with meat!”

Elisabeth Shue - Chris
Maia Brewton - Sara

“You can't write it if you don't know how it ends - Journalism 101.”
Joey Travolta - Newspaper Editor

“- Indian Bartender: Um, let me get this straight. I am talking to a priest who went on a bender because his best friend, a rabbi, stole his girl.
- Father Brian Kilkenney Finn: Right.
- Indian Bartender: Thank you. I want to thank you for telling me this story.
- Father Brian Kilkenney Finn: Why?
- Indian Bartender: Because now I can retire.”
Brian George - Indian Bartender
Edward Norton - Father Brian Finn

“True trilogies are all about going back to the beginning and discovering something that wasn't true from the get go. Godfather, Jedi, all revealed something that we thought was true that wasn't true.”
Jamie Kennedy - Randy Meeks

“A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.”
Billy Crudup - Will Bloom

“They say Japan was made by a sword. They say the old gods dipped a coral blade into the ocean, and when they pulled it out four perfect drops fell back into the sea, and those drops became the islands of Japan.”
Timothy Spall - Simon Graham

“You write a screenplay without conflict or crisis you'll bore your audience to tears.”
Nicolas Cage - Robert McKee

“- Sebastian: First I have to live a little so I have something to write about.
- Henrietta: So, for the time being, you're just going to live a little?
- Sebastian: No, I'm going to live a lot.”
Adrian Grenier - Sebastian Cole
Clark Gregg - Henrietta

“You don't know any stories? Okay, I'll tell you a story. This is a newspaper. It's 90 per cent bullshit, but it's entertaining. That's why I read it? Because it entertains me. You won't let me read it, so you entertain me with your bullshit. Tell me a story, right now.”
Denzel Washington - Alonzo

“- Sam: I wonder if people will ever say, 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring'. And they'll say 'Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?'. 'Yes, my boy, the most famous of hobbits. And that's saying a lot'.
- Frodo: You've left out one of the chief characters - Samwise the Brave. I want to hear more...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sean Astin - Sam
Elijah Wood - Frodo

“- Lama Norbu: I was just telling Jesse the story of Siddhartha.
- Dean Conrad: That's a beautiful story. A beautiful... myth.
- Lama Norbu: It is one way of telling the truth, and children seem to love it.”
Ruocheng Ying - Lama Norbu
Chris Isaak - Dean Conrad

“- Dutch Dooley: You got anything to say? Me, I like to talk. I love to talk. Live to talk. You got any amusing anecdotes?
- Doyle Standish: I'm living through one right now.”
Ed O'Neill - Dutch Dooley
Ethan Embry - Doyle Standish

“- Tommy: I don't like that story anymore.
- Laurie Strode: I thought King Arthur was your favorite.
- Tommy: Not anymore.”
Brian Andrews - Tommy
Jamie Lee Curtis - Laurie Strode

“I often wonder that history should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.”
Frances O'Connor - Fanny Price

“Prepare yourself for the most impure tale ever to spring from the mind of man.”
Geoffrey Rush - The Marquis de Sade

“- Bruce Wayne: I know who you are. Let me tell you about this guy I know, Jack. Mean kid. Bad seed. Hurt people.
- Joker: I like him already.”
Michael Keaton - Bruce Wayne
Jack Nicholson - Joker

“- Dalai Lama, 14 Years Old: I can't sleep. I'm afraid the dream might come back.
- Heinrich Harrer: A couple of insomniacs.
- Dalai Lama, 14 Years Old: Tell me a story, Heinrich. Tell me a story about climbing mountains.
- Heinrich Harrer: That's one way to fall asleep. Those stories bore even me.”
Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk - Dalai Lama, 14 Years Old
Brad Pitt - Heinrich Harrer

“Ladies and gentlemen, every where I look... soldiers are fighting sailors, sailors are fighting Marines! Directly in front of me, I see a flying blond floozy! Everywhere I look... everywhere, pure pandemonium... pandemonium!”

Joe Flaherty - Raoul Lipschitz

“This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.”
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood

“- Doreen Carter: Why did you leave?
- Jack Carter: Well, Doreen, that's a long, long story.
- Doreen Carter: It's a long, long night.”
Rachael Leigh Cook - Doreen
Sylvester Stallone - Jack Carter

“- Harry Booth: No sense leaving the story of a lifetime untold, Captain.
- Captain Dan Holland: I'm afraid there is, Harry. And it's staring straight at us right now.”

Ernest Borgnine - Harry Booth
Robert Forster - Captain Dan Holland

Once upon a time, a woman was picking up firewood. She came upon a poisonous snake frozen in the snow. She took the snake home and nursed it back to health. One day the snake bit her on the cheek. As she lay dying, she asked the snake, "Why have you done this to me?". And the snake answered, "Look, bitch, you knew I was a snake".
Russell Means - Old Indian