Telling Stories Quotes - Page 6

• If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Successful, Directors, Different

  Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.

  John C. McGinley

  Games, Ideas, Way

  "John C. McGinley's ABCs". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

  Taylor Kitsch

  Play, Guy, Risk

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• I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

  David Morrissey

  Challenges, Acting, Stories

  "David Morrissey: 'Acting gave me a life'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

  Paul McGann

  Real, Tough, Film

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• Acting is so much fun. It is a different ball game and I want to concentrate on that at the moment. I'm really passionate about what I do. I love entertainment and telling stories to people and I am very lucky that I am doing what I want to do.

  Britney Spears

  Fun, Games, People

  "Britney: I'm Single". Press conference, www.imdb.com. March 26, 2002.

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• I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

  Anthony Davis

  Writing, Voice, Opera

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• I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

  Ben Macintyre

  Secret, Stories

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• I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

  Nathan Fillion

  Great Day, Stories, Actors

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• When an acting teacher tells a student 'that wasn't honest work' or 'that didn't seem real,' what does this mean? In life, we are rarely 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. And characters in plays are almost never 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. What exactly do teachers even mean by these words? A more useful question is: What is the story the actor was telling in their work? An actor is always telling a story. We all are telling stories, all the time. Story: that is what it is all about.

  Stella Adler

  Teacher, Real, Character

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• I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

  Chris Pratt

  Thinking, Stories, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

  Art Donovan

  Art, Talking, Laughing

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• I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

  Ishmael Beah

  Boys, Imagination, Age

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• Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The important thing to remember is, you know how to do this. You’ve been doing this your whole life.

  Cynthia Leitich Smith

  Important, Stories, Way

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• I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

  Christine Vachon

  Trying, Stories, Filmmaker

  "SXSW: The 8 Best Things Christine Vachon Said at Her Keynote" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. March 17, 2015.

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• I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting truth to enter the heads of those who could not appreciate its charms.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Appreciate, Purpose, Stories

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures.

  JoAnn Ross

  Mother, Book, Stories

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• In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.

  John Grisham

  Rain, Men, Talking

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• I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.

  Cam Newton

  Football, Father, Idols

  Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.

  William Gibson

  Hbo, Wire, Television

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• As an artist, I am interested in telling stories that haven't been told before, stories that are going to affect people, and also stories that shine light on areas of history that haven't had light shined on them before.

  Naomie Harris

  Artist, Light, People

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• I aspired to be a writer and then I just started getting acting work. I really didn't have a direct goal, I just knew I wanted to be in this industry telling stories and doing this for a job. I thought my path was going to be as a writer, but I'm pretty happy doing it as an actor.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Jobs, Goal, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

  Steve Buscemi

  Brother, Father, Son

  "10 Minutes with Steve Buscemi". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2007.

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• I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.

  Elijah Wood

  Moving, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.

  Marc Maron

  Dark, People, Needs

  Source: www.believermag.com

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