Storytelling quotes

“You got more stories than the devil got sinners.”

Stephen McKinley Henderson - Jim Bono

“- Tamatoa: Are you just trying to get me to talk about myself? Because if you are... I will gladly do so.
- Moana: Huh?
- Tamatoa: In song form!”
Jemaine Clement - Tamatoa
Auli'i Cravalho - Moana

“I'm Mickey Rubin. Poetic by nature. I harbor dreams of being a writer. A writer of truly great plays, so I can one day surprise everyone and turn out a profound masterpiece. Anyhow. Let me get to the story in which I am a character, so, be warned, as a poet, I use symbols, and as a budding dramatist, I relish melodrama and larger-than-life...” (continue)(continue reading)

Justin Timberlake - Mickey

“- Drax: My father would tell the story of impregnating my mother every winter solstice.
- Peter Quill: That's disgusting.”
Dave Bautista - Drax
Chris Pratt - Peter Quill

“I knew this bloke once, right. And... he used to masturbate so much that he grew very fond of his hand. So much that he began to talk to it and he put a little face on it and he called it Muriel. And after a while, Muriel began to talk back to him. He would get her all dolled up in make up and specially made little clothes, and at night she'd go...” (continue)(continue reading)
Noah Taylor - Danny

“- Dodger: Picture the city. 8th and Broadway. The crowd's hustling. The traffic's roaring. The hot dogs are sizzling.
- Einstein: I love a story with food in it.”
Billy Joel - Dodger
Richard Mulligan - Einstein

“People think the writer's imagination is always at work, that he's constantly inventing an endless supply of incidents and episodes; that he simply dreams up his stories out of thin air. In point of fact, the opposite is true. Once the public knows you're a writer, they bring the characters and events to you. And as long as you maintain your...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Wilkinson - Author

“Listen to me Abbe and listen well. I've stared into the face of evil and I've lived to tell the tale and now, I beg you, for your sake, let me write it down.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Coulmier

“Have you ever heard a joke so many times you've forgotten why it's funny? And then you hear it again and suddenly it's new. You remember why you loved it in the first place.”
Billy Crudup - Will Bloom

“Do you want the long version or the short version? And I have to warn you, the long version is in Aramaic.”
Steve Carrell - Uncle Arthur

“Any story worth telling is worth telling twice.”
Robert Guillaume - Rafiki

“On December 31, 2014, a taxicab traveled through San Francisco, from Chinatown to Marin. The car carried a single passenger: a woman, her birth name Adaline Bowman, current alias Jennifer Larson. This is the first and last chapter of her story.”

Hugh Ross - Narrator

“It is one of the strangest tales ever told. It deals with the two great mysteries of creation: life and death. I think it will thrill you. It might even... horrify you.”
Edward Van Sloan - Doctor Waldman

“By now you may wonder how I wound up here. Or, maybe not. Maybe you wonder how silly putty picks shit up from comic books. The point is, I don't see another Goddamn narrator, so pipe down.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Harry Lockhart

“Here at Capitol Pictures, as you know, an army of technicians, actors, and top notch artistic people are working hard to bring to the screen the story of the Christ. It's a swell story.”
Josh Brolin - Eddie Mannix

“Whenever you're telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there's a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right.”
Tom McCarthy

“Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. ”
Ralph Macchio On Alfred Hitchcock

“One day they'll tell a story about a human who came from the stars and changed our world. Some will say it was just a fairy tale, but it was never real. But I'll know.”
Helena Bonham Carter - Ari

- Rabbi Jacob "Jake" Schram: You want an example? I take her out to dinner, I order dessert, she says she doesn't want any, I get pecan pie. She asks me for a bite, I give her a bite, her face swells up like a chipmunk, she looks at me and says, "Oh, my God, are there nuts in this?"
- Ruth Schram: So what?
- Rabbi Jacob "Jake" Schram: Mom! It... (continue)(continue reading)

Ben Stiller - Rabbi Jake Schram
Anne Bancroft - Ruth Schram

“- Vann: Well, I think one thing you guys oughta learn is that the story's mine, it belongs to me, so I think I'll tell it my way.
- Graves: No matter which fucking way you tell it, gas chamber is where you're headed, Siegert.”
Owen Wilson - Vann
Dennis Haysbert - Graves

“Some folks dream of the wonders they'll do before they're time on this planet is through. Some just don't have anything planned, they hide their hopes and their heads in the sand. Now I don't say who is wrong, who is right. But if by chance you are here for the night, then all I need is an hour or two to tell the tale of a dreamer like you.”
Maria Friedman - Narrator

“- Man in Jail: The Black Pearl? I've heard stories. She's been preying on ships and settlements for near ten years. Never leaves any survivors.
- Jack Sparrow: No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?”
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow

“- Otis B. Driftwood: Go fast. I can see a man with a rope out there.
- Fiorello: How we happen to come to America is a great story, but I no tell that.”

Groucho Marx - Otis B. Driftwood
Chico Marx - Fiorello

“- Lee Chandler: You know, I've seen a school of sharks tear a boat to pieces like it was made of cardboard because some kid threw a band-aid in the water.
- Patrick: Oh, yeah...
- Lee Chandler: Yeah, he did! Sometimes the only way to keep them off is to throw the kid directly in the ocean to distract them!
- Patrick: Shut up. Sharks don't even...” (continue)(continue reading)
Casey Affleck - Lee Chandler
Lucas Hedges - Patrick

Another wave says to him, "Why do you look so sad?". And the little waves says, "Because we're gonna crash. All us waves are gonna be nothin', don't ya understand?". And the other wave says, "You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean".

Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz