Storytelling quotes

“- Mother: Now, here is the story of the noble dog, who saved the king from the wicked wizard. Once upon a time...
- Thumbelina: Oh, mother, please. Are there any stories about... about little people?”
Barbara Cook - Mother
Jodi Benson - Thumbelina

“That's the question on the minds of all your viewers? Whether I run out of gas or not? Tell you what, Jer. You let your viewers know that I hope Miss Voss' fear and my desperation are entertainment enough for them. After all, that is what this is all about, isn't it? The story. As it breaks. Live. Coming to you from the bad guy himself. I mean...” (continue)(continue reading)
Charlie Sheen - Jack Hammond

“Life is a spinning wheel, it has been said. With each spoke, a tale to be told. So keep silence along the banks, and I will tell you one of these tales; a story as enchanting as the jungle itself. It is about pride, and power, and treasure... and about fangs, and claws, and talons... but mostly, it is about love.”
Sam Neill - Brydon

“- Satine: You've got to carry on without me, Christian.
- Christian: I can't carry on without you.
- Satine: You have so much to give.
- Christian: No.
- Satine: Yes. Tell our story, Christian.
- Christian: I love you.
- Satine: Tell our story, Christian. That way I'll always be with you.”

Nicole Kidman - Satine
Ewan McGregor - Christian

“- Pete Monash: I cannot remember a time before you started telling that story.
- Rosalee Futch: I was asked to provide a detailed explanation of the evening.
- Pete Monash: And you did, Rosie, you really did. I really felt like I was there... sort of against my will.”
Christopher Grace - Pete Monash
Kate Bosworth - Rosalee Futch

“- Susan Matthews-Loomis: Just another legend?
- George Loomis: If we let it be.”
Sean Young - Susan Matthews-Loomis
William Katt - George Loomis

“- Annie: Tell me something about my life, Dean, something not horrible.
- Dean Proffitt: Well uh... yeah, there was that time you were working at Burger Boy, and this kid started choking on a French fry and everybody in the place panicked, including me, except you, you knew exactly what to do. You ran over to the kid and you gave him that...” (continue)(continue reading)

Goldie Hawn - Annie
Kurt Russell - Dean Proffitt

“- Dandelion: If we meet again, Hazel-rah, we'll have the making of the best story ever!
- Hazel: And you'll be the one to tell it!”
Richard O'Callaghan - Dandelion
Sir John Hurt - Hazel

“- Twin: Do you tell stories?
- Wendy Darling: Yes.
- Curly: Then you're perfect.”
Patrick Gooch - Twin
Rachel Hurd-Wood - Wendy Darling
George MacKay - Curly

“See... the problem here is that... my little brother, this morning, got his arm caught in the microwave, and uh... my grandmother dropped acid and she freaked out, and hijacked a school bus full of... penguins, so it's kind of a family crisis... so come back later? Great.”

John Cusack - Lane Myer

“You're nothing but legends. Pretty soon, no one will believe you even existed.”

Ned Beatty - Mayor

“Mom died when I was three, and I suppose Dad did the best he could. Instead of Mother Goose, I was put to bed at night to stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson.”
Kevin Costner - Ray Kinsella

“- Prime Minister Lord Salisbury: You have us at a disadvantage, Mr. Holmes. I think it might be better if you tell us your story in your own way and permit me to be the judge of whether it is true or not.
- Sherlock Holmes: You may take it to be true, sir!”
Sir John Gielgud - Prime Minister Lord Salisbury
Christopher Plummer - Sherlock Holmes

“- Evelyn: The last known expedition to actually reach Ahm Shere was sent by Ramses the Fourth over 3,000 years ago. He sent over a thousand men.
- Rick: And none of them was ever seen again.
- Evelyn: How did you know?
- Rick: I didn't. But that's always the story.”
Rachel Weisz - Evelyn Carnahan
Brendan Fraser - Rick O'Connell

“- Jamie Ashen: What do you want me to tell you!
- Det. Jim Lipton: Something less perplexing than a ghost story.”
Ryan Kwanten - Jamie Ashen
Donnie Wahlberg - Det. Jim Lipton

“And then Pinocchio came out of his plastic bubble and touched the filthy little whore next door and died. The end!”

Swoosie Kurtz - Mrs. Livingston

“Other people go on vacation and spend their days just laying around. We have a story we're going to be telling for the rest of our lives.”
Daniel Travis - Daniel Kintner

“- Evil Queen: Once upon a time, there was a lovely, little girl who lived on the edge of the forest. Her mommy told her never to go into the forest, but do you know what she did?
- Little Virginia: No.
- Evil Queen: Yes, you do. She went into the forest and she met a monster. And then she died. And everyone forgot about her, and we all lived...” (continue)(continue reading)
Little Virginia - Evil Queen
Gemma Boyle - Virginia Lewis

“A fairy tale also reveals some sort of truth, the perils of choices we make in our youth.”
Eric Idle - Narrator

“This was my story. Sherman McCoy was my baby, my creation.”
Bruce Willis - Peter Fallow

“- Mack: You know I worked all night on the damn thing. Now Hazel cried when I tried it on him. You see, I got this aunt is Salinas. She lost both husbands in the flood...
- Doc: I didn't know you had an aunt is Salinas, Mack.
- Mack: I don't have an aunt in Salinas, for for christ's sake. That's the goddamned story.”

M. Emmet Walsh - Mack
Nick Nolte - Doc

“- Alex Law: It's not every day I find a story in my own flat.
- Juliet Miller: It's not a story, Alex. It's a corpse.”
Ewan McGregor - Alex Law
Kerry Fox - Juliet Miller

“Do you want me to finish the story, Eddie?”
Kim Basinger - May

“Every front has back and little things tell story - even in this room.”
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan

“You want the story? I'll spin it for you quick.”
Bruce Willis - Lt. Muldoon