Stories Quotes - Page 136

Ive got a ton of stories about Chuck Knox, ... Over the course of my playing career, there was nobody that I learned to respect and appreciate more than I did Chuck Knox.

I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.

If improv gets reckless, you can feel it. A lot of shows try to do that, I find. When improv is done sloppily. It betrays the story. It can slow down the energy of the story you're telling.

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Odd things happen in New York, which is why it's such a great source of stories.

I like to have a much greater base and know a lot more about my character before I begin to fill the person. So a lot of it really entails sit-downs with them, determining who she is, where she came from, and why she reacts a certain way, and then I was really able to expand upon a lot of that and create a lot of that story on my own.

There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.

Not everyone's life will be a great love story.

We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.

It can stand in the way of narration in cases where we want the protagonist to actually go through some kind of catharsis while our own (non-fictional) experiences and stories lead to something banal or completely uninteresting.

Dad? Um, listen. I have kind of a crazy story for you.

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

I think as an actor you can feel when something's right and when something's resonating. I don't think that there's necessarily a right and a wrong. I think it's just a matter of being honest and telling a story.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.