Storytelling quotes

“If they ever tell my story let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Hector and of Achilles.”
Sean Bean - Odysseus

“- Mary Katherine Gallagher: I thought you said that mom and dad were savagely ripped apart and eaten by a school of hammerhead sharks.
- Grandma: I just told you that to make you feel better.”
Molly Shannon - Mary Katherine Gallagher
Glynis Johns - Grandma

“This is not a love story, but it is a story about love. About those who give in into it, and the price they pay. And those who run away from it, because they are afraid, or because they do not believe they're worthy of it. She ran away. He gave in.”
Angelina Jolie - Julia Russell

“History is all in the mind of the teller. Truth is all in the telling.”
Tom Hanks - Older Mike

“- Donkey: Can you tell my future from these stars?
- Shrek: The stars don't tell the future. They tell stories.”

Eddie Murphy - Donkey
Mike Myers - Shrek

- Uncle Mike: Once upon a time, there was a little girl named "Rachel". Actually, she wasn't all that little. She was a hot-looking high school senior with deep blue eyes, and fine, firm breasts and...
- Little Brian: That's not the way Mommy tells it!
- Uncle Mike: Shut up, that's the way I tell it.
Michael Mesmer - Uncle Mike
Brian DePersia - Little Brian

“- Rick: Let me guess: it was commanded by, uh, the Scorpion King guy?
- Evelyn: Yes, but he only awakens once every 5,000 years.
- Rick: Right. And if someone doesn't kill him, then he's gonna wipe out the world.
- Evelyn: How did you know?
- Rick: I didn't. But that's always the story.”
Brendan Fraser - Rick O'Connell
Rachel Weisz - Evelyn Carnahan

“- Maggie Banning: But Jack says you're not the really real Wendy.
- Wendy Darling: Ahh. Well, do you see where Jack is, hmm? Well, that is the same window and this is the same room where we made up our bedtime stories about Peter and Neverland and scary old Captain Hook. And did you know? Mr. Barrie - well, Sir James, our neighbor - he loved our...” (continue)(continue reading)
Amber Scott - Maggie Banning
Maggie Smith - Wendy Darling

“- Willy Gilligan: You know, I lived with a guy for years. A real genius. He could take a couple of these pineapples or a couple of coconuts with some strings and wire and make a nuclear reactor. But he couldn't fix a two-foot hole in a boat. Wanna hear the rest?
- Frankie, the Big Kahuna: No!
- Willy Gilligan: Maybe the Midwest is for me.”
Bob Denver - Willy Gilligan
Frankie Avalon - Frankie, the Big Kahuna

“- Jim Hawkins: Mom, this is it! This is the answer to all our problems!
- Sarah Hawkins: Jim, there is absolutely no way...
- Jim Hawkins: Don't you remember? All those stories?
- Sarah Hawkins: That's all they were! Stories!”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Jim Hawkins
Laurie Metcalf - Sarah Hawkins

“- Skeeter Bronson: Mind showing me your finest horse?
- Chief Running Mouth: My ancestors believed horse spirit come down from mountain, during time of fire, wind. Many brave warrior walk trail of moon bear...
- Skeeter Bronson: Yeah I just wanna see the horse; I don't need all this.”
Adam Sandler - Skeeter Bronson
Rob Schneider - Chief Running Mouth

“- Po: We have a legend. It tells of a man who comes far from the oceans and save us from great danger.
- Nick Gunar: Really?
- Po: No. But I'm working on it.”
BD Wong - Po
Dolph Lundgren - Nick Gunar

“- Columbus: Are you one of these guys that tries to one-up everybody else's story?
- Tallahassee: No. I knew a guy way worse at that than me.”
Jesse Eisenberg - Columbus
Woody Harrelson - Tallahassee

“- Parker Concorde: Thank you.
- Bess: You're welcome, but what for?
- Parker Concorde: For giving me an ending.”
Johnathon Schaech - Parker Concorde
Lainie Kazan - Bess

“- Young Elizabeth: Did they live happily ever after?
- Polly Cronin: Of course, Elizabeth.
- Young Elizabeth: How do you know?
- Polly Cronin: Because, she was a good little girl, if she would have been naughty, the Prince would have run away.
- Young Elizabeth: What a pile of shit.”

Ashley Peldon - Young Elizabeth
Marsha Mason - Polly Cronin

“Gossip and news are the same thing, they've always been the same thing. People tell stories, that's what makes us human.”
James Marsden - Derrick Webb

“- Nick Charles: Now how did you ever remember me?
- Dorothy Wynant: Oh, you used to fascinate me. A real live detective. You used to tell me the most wonderful stories.”
William Powell - Nick Charles
Maureen O'Sullivan - Dorothy Wynant

“- James West: Gordon, when you tell this story to your grandkids, you be sure to leave this part out.
- Artemus Gordon: Don't worry.”

Will Smith - James West
Kevin Kline - Artemus Gordon

“- Higgins: This particular event happened last summer on my uncle's farm in Virginia. My brother and I had just finished cutting a field of hay and were enjoying the evening meal under the shade of an elm tree. He went down for water by the creek and when he was gone, I took a bowl that was filled with delicious plum pudding and placed into it,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steven M. Porter - Higgins
Matthew Perry - Leslie Edwards
Chris Farley - Bartholomew Hunt

“I find a murder in a detective story much more sympathetic than a real murder.”
Kurt Katch - Colonel Haki

“- Randolph Johnson: 300 years ago, my people only had to spend one day a week gathering food, and everybody ate like kings.
- Jesse: So what'd they do the rest of the time?
- Randolph Johnson: Told stories, made music, made carvings. Made babies.
- Jesse: Sounds good to me.”
August Schellenberg - Randolph Johnson
Jason James Richter - Jesse

“I'm not a great man for telling things the way they are. I mean, I've been known to add a little color to stories and riddles for the benefit of those who will listen.”
Ian Bannen - Jackie O'Shea

“While we love the emotional journey that Charlotte takes in this script, we feel there are things that could make this story more accessible to a general audience. Number one: a high-speed motorcycle chase.”

James Rebhorn - Abe White

“Some plots are moved forward by external events and crises. Others are moved forward by the characters themselves. If I go through that door, the plot continues. The story of me through the door. If I stay here the plot can't move forward, the story ends.”
Dustin Hoffman - Professor Jules Hilbert

“I'm bouncing from toy to toy like I'm some sort of drunk dude. Mom's smiling. My father's smiling. It's all good, right? Then around 8:30, cops show up. Take the toys, take my father. But for about two and a half hours I had a very, very happy childhood.”
Jamie Foxx - Alvin