Storytelling quotes

266 storytelling quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines
  • “- Betty Sizemore: Gosh! I haven't been this happy since I was 12.
    - Dr. David Ravell: Okay, I'll bite. What happened when you were 12?
    - Betty Sizemore: I took my mom to Kansas City for Mothers' Day and I used the allowance I was saving. We went to lunch at Skies, this restaurant at the top of a building, and you can see the whole world from up...” (continue)
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    Renee Zellweger - Betty Sizemore
    Greg Kinnear - Dr. David Ravell
    [Tag:happiness, mother, storytelling]
  • “Talking looking glasses, tricky queens, secret doors. This place burns me up!”
    Jonathan Harris - Sunburn
    [Tag:madness, magic, storytelling]
  • “- Julia Sullivan: Did you have any idea she wasn't the right one when you were together?
    - Robbie Hart: I should have. Uh, I remember we went to the Grand Canyon one time. We were flying there and I'd never been there before and Linda had, so you would think that she would give me the window seat but she didn't and... not that that's a big deal,...” (continue)
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    Drew Barrymore - Julia Sullivan
    Adam Sandler - Robbie Hart
    [Tag:relationships, storytelling]
  • “There was this boy named Jason Voorhees who drowned in Crystal Lake about 30 years ago. None of the counselors heard him. A bunch of years went by, and everyone forgot about it. And that's when the murders started to happen.”
    Todd Caldecott - Jim Miller
    [Tag:murder, storytelling]
  • “Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much, my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is I get back to her, and how I'll ever be able to tell about days like today.”
    Tom Hanks - Captain Miller
    [Tag:home, return, storytelling]
  • “Hi, welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. And I'm telling you it's great here. The air is clean, the water's clean, even the dirt, it's clean. Bowling averages are way up, mini-golf scores are way down. And we have more excellent water slides than any other planet we communicate with. I'm telling you this place is great! But it...” (continue)(continue reading)
    George Carlin - Rufus
    [Tag:future, history, storytelling]
  • “- Reggie Hammond: Jack... tell me a story.
    - Jack Cates: Fuck you!
    - Reggie Hammond: Oh, that's one of my favorites.”

    Eddie Murphy - Reggie Hammond
    Nick Nolte - Jack Cates
    [Tag:storytelling]
  • “Now I know why I have always lost women to guys like you. I mean, it's not just the uniform. It's the stories that you tell. So much fun and imagination.”

    Bill Murray - John
    [Tag:imagination, storytelling]
  • “- Buscemi: Suddenly they got very interested in who you were. So, I laid the story down nice and thick.
    - El Mariachi: How thick?
    - Buscemi: Well, pretty thick, I told 'em you were the biggest Mexican I've ever seen...”

    Steve Buscemi - Buscemi
    Antonio Banderas - El Mariachi
    [Tag:deceit, fame, storytelling]
  • “The Shaman taught me that brave tales do not always have happy endings. I know what guns can do.”
    Tanya Roberts - Sheena
    [Tag:pessimism, storytelling, weapons]
  • “I think your mother reads to you every night in order to stupefy you to sleep. So she and daddy can sit down for three measly minutes without you and your mindless, inexhaustible, unstoppable, repetitive and nagging demands. He took my toy. She hit my bear. I want a potty. I want a cookie. I want to stay up. I want, I want, I want, me, me, me,...” (continue)(continue reading)

    Dustin Hoffman - Captain James Hook
    [Tag:childhood, parents, storytelling]
  • “Let me tell you the story of Right Hand, Left Hand. It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cain iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: static. One hand is always fighting the other hand, and the left hand is kicking much...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Bill Nunn - Radio Raheem
    [Tag:hand, love, storytelling]
  • “That's not because there are most ghosts here then other places, mind you. It's just that people who live here about are strangely aware of them. You see, day and night, year in, year out, they listen to the pound and stir of the waves. There's life and death in that restless sound. And eternity too.”

    Ray Milland - Roderick Fitzgerald
    [Tag:eternity, ghosts, storytelling]
  • “I wanna tell you about the time I almost died...”

    [Tag:death, storytelling]
  • “- Mickey: [reading Dennis a story] How can a train grow?
    - Dennis Mitchell: He eats all his coal and gets plenty of sleep.
    - Mickey: And what's the point of reading lies?
    - Dennis Mitchell: It teaches kids to eat all their food, and go to bed when they're supposed to.”

    Devin Ratray - Mickey
    Mason Gamble - Dennis Mitchell
    [Tag:growth, lies, storytelling]
  • “- Lily: What's the story on that dog?
    - Reggie: That's the dog that saved Charleston from the 1938 flood.
    - Lily: Well, fuck him.”

    Lindsay Crouse - Lily
    Paul Newman - Reggie
    [Tag:dogs, rescue, storytelling]
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