Stories Quotes - Page 263

Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous.

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.

It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story --- one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.

People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.

Every man is a hero of his own story.

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.

I got into [producing] to be part of stories that wouldn't necessarily be right for me as an actor.

I had the luxury of working on the script with Andrew [Dominik] for a good year before the film started, so I was already intimate with the story [of The Assassination of Jesse James] and felt quite prepared walking into it.

There are certain aspects of celebrity that I understand, although that's not the main point of the story [in Assassination of Jesse James] , but it is one of the by products. I certainly understand what its like to be hunted and have a bounty on my head but at least nobody is pointing guns at me.

I just take credit for being smart enough to find a guy as smart as Benett [Miller] to tell the story [of "Moneyball"].

How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!

You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous.

You know I've been in these tabloids for years now. And at some point you just become a Zen master of it all. Most of these stories, you get probably 2 percent real fruit juice and the rest is just garbage with no nutritional value.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking.

There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.

Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come only with difficulty.

I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

For some reason, our media are fascinated by stories that appear to harm American National interests.

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.