Stories Quotes - Page 265

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

As the years went on, the audience has become very jaded. They've heard every joke, they've seen every story line, they know where you're going before you even start to get there. And that's a hard audience to keep interested.

I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it's going to make you miserable?

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature - and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That’s one big horror story. And it’s the most popular book on the planet.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true.

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

The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that preceded the novel.

I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.