Storytelling quotes

“The town we lived in was named after a slave. It was said that when General John Paul Batiste was stricken with cholera, his life was saved by the powerful medicine of an African slave woman called Eve. In return for his life, he freed her, and gave her this piece of land by the Bayou. Perhaps in gratitude, she bore him sixteen children. We are...” (continue)(continue reading)

Tamara Tunie - Narrator

“- Edward D. Wood, Jr.: The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
- Editor on Studio Lot: You forgot the octopus.
- Edward D. Wood, Jr.: No, no, I'm saving that for my big underwater climax.”
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
Patrick Cranshaw - Editor on Studio Lot

“- Pecos Bill: Not as hot as the summer of '88 when the chickens laid fried eggs and the babies cried sawdust.
- Paul Bunyan: Does this story have a point or does it go on and on and on like this stinkin' desert?”
Patrick Swayze - Pecos Bill
Oliver Platt - Paul Bunyan

“The horseman was a Hessian mercenary sent to the shores by German princes to keep Americans under the yoke of England. But unlike his compatriots, who came for money, the horseman came for love of carnage.”
Sir Michael Gambon - Baltus Van Tassel

“- Kathy: You guys are brothers?
- Mitch Weaver: Well, it's a long story.
- Sam McKenna: My dad boned his mom.
- Mitch Weaver: Okay, it's a short story.”
Traylor Howard - Kathy
Norm MacDonald - Mitch Weaver
Artie Lange - Sam McKenna

This is a story of love and loss, fathers and sons, and the foresight to retain international merchandising rights. This is the story of "Star Wars". Let's begin with part four.
Seth MacFarlane - Peter Griffin

“- Theresa Burnett: Hey hey. Don't you go telling my boys none of your sleazy sex stories.
- Mike Lowrey: Aw, no. I only tell your husband my sleazy sex stories.
- Marcus Burnett: Hey.
- Theresa Burnett: Well, I don't want him hearing either. Gives him ideas.”
Theresa Randle - Theresa Burnett
Will Smith - Mike Lowrey
Martin Lawrence - Marcus Burnett

“- Tony: So there I am, getting it on with this perfect female body and...
- Mike: What?
- Tony: I can't say.
- Mike: No, you can't give a build-up like that and not deliver. You know, a perfect female body, it's not a bad start.
- Tony: But with the head of Abraham Lincoln. With the hat and the beard, everything.”

Anthony Rapp - Tony
Adam Goldberg - Mike

“- Bart Simpson: Tell us a story, Grampa, you've led an interesting life.
- Grampa: That's a lie and you know it! But I have seen a lot of movies...”
Nancy Cartwright - Bart Simpson
Dan Castellaneta - Grampa

“When you've been in prison as long as I have, you remember every story about pussy you ever heard.”
Eddie Murphy - Reggie Hammond

- Natalie Hillard: We're in the middle of "Charlotte's Web". Who's gonna finish it?
- Daniel Hillard: Well, Grandma will finish it for you.
- Natalie Hillard: [whispers] She's not as good. She always skips parts, and she never does the voices. She smells funny, too.
- Daniel Hillard: That's the formaldehyde. That's why Granny's so well preserved.
Mara Wilson - Natalie Hillard
Robin Williams - Daniel Hillard

“- Tia Dalma: Same story, different versions. And all are true. See, it was a woman as changing and harsh and untamable as the sea. He never stopped loving her. But the pain it caused was to much to live with, but not enough to cause him to die.
- Will Turner: What exactly did he put into the chest?
- Tia Dalma: His heart.”
Naomie Harris - Tia Dalma
Orlando Bloom - Will Turner

“I'm not going to tell the story the way it happened. I'm going to tell it the way I remember it.”
Ethan Hawke - Finnegan Bell

“- Jane: Trust? Pixie Dust? Mother, those are just words from your stories. They don't mean anything.
- Danny: Yes they do. Peter Pan says they'll make you fly.”
Harriet Owen - Jane
Andrew McDonough - Danny

“A good story has the power to heal the soul.”
Lynn Redgrave - Celia

“- Father Bobby: Listen, I got a story I want to tell you.
- Young Tommy: It ain't the one about the lepers, is it? Cause that one gave me nightmares.”
Robert De Niro - Father Bobby
Jonathan Tucker - Young Tommy

“- Hannay: Beautiful, mysterious woman pursued by gunmen. Sounds like a spy story.
- Miss Smith: That's exactly what it is.”
Robert Donat - Hannay
Lucie Mannheim - Miss Smith

“- Maisy's Teacher: Does anybody have a special story to tell the class about something that happened this week?
[Maizy Russell raises her hand]
- Maisy's Teacher: Maizy?
- Maizy Russell: My uncle was micro waving our socks and the dog threw up on the couch for an hour.”
Ron Payne - Maizy's Teacher
Gaby Hoffmann - Maizy Russell

“You want to know if they're true or not... the stories about me. Did you ever notice with stories like that, everyone says they heard it from someone who was there. But then when you ask that person, they say they heard it from someone who was there. It's nothing new, really. I bet if you went back two thousand years, you'd hear a couple of...” (continue)(continue reading)

Matthew Settle - Ronald C. Speirs

“- Clarence: I met Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. one time.
- Sweets: Man, you lyin'. You ain't never met no Martin Luther the King.”
Eddie Murphy - Clarence

“If you find yourself dealing with an unexpected back story and a preponderance of exposition, then the sequel rules do not apply. Because you are not dealing with a sequel, you are dealing with the concluding chapter of a trilogy.”
Jamie Kennedy - Randy Meeks

“I wonder why your story never wavers from exactly the same words. It suggests either that you have an extraordinary memory... or you're telling the plain, unvarnished truth.”

James Stephenson - Howard Joyce

“First, there's the kind that tells a definite story. Then there's the kind, that while it has no specific plot, does paint a series of more or less definite pictures. Then there's a third kind, music that exists simply for its own sake. Now, the number that opens our Fantasia program is music of this third kind.”

Teller - Himself - Host (segment "The Sorcerer's Apprentice")

“You are a gifted storyteller. You create heroes in a world of cynics. Journey down the Nile with me and I'll give you a chance to record history.”

Spiros Focás - Omar

“- Beverly Franco: About the script... I see it as a love story between Hank and Frank.
- Buck O'Brien: You do?
- Beverly Franco: Yeah. Don't you? It's like a homoerotic misogynistic love story.
- Buck O'Brien: Oh. Well, it is what it is. I don't know. I mean, I wanted to write something like... like the kind of things me and my friend used to do.”
Lupe Ontiveros - Beverly Franco
Mike White - Buck O'Brien