Top 1200 Different Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks - you name 'em, they can play any part they want. Guys like me who are somewhere down in the middle of the pack, that's a different story. I can do things in the theater that I can't do anyplace else.

I want as much as I can to try and explore different roles and different characters; that's important to me to get involved in as many different parts as I can.

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

I mean, being a solo artist is very different than being a member of a band. It's absolutely different. The whole situation is very different - situations where you can't really compare, it's so very different. But I found happiness.

Diversity is just 'the world.' It's different cultures, different backgrounds, different ethnicities, different religions, genders, sexual orientation, shapes, sizes. That is the world, but we call it 'diversity' because there is this one type that has always been accepted in the media, and it's finally starting to change.

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

People like a story that has a lot of blood, sweat and tears. But I don't think the Slint story really has that.

Be it any industry, what matters to me is the story as that is what the audience are primarily in a theatre for - to enjoy a good story.

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers including me do their best dialogue writing off story - the best lines, the best observations - but they haven't got enough to do with the plot to stay in.

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.

The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise to fulfillment.

When Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the anthem, that's both a sports story and a politics story.

Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything is different for him afterward. Better. Magical." "That's just a story." "So are we- we're stories too.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

Script wise, the story of 'Eega' is universal. It's a simple story which everyone can understand.

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

What I have to write, the story, it is always going on in my mind. What incidences I can add in the story - it is a continuous process.

San Suu's story will always involve politics, but the essence is the love story.

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already

I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth.

Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.

With regard to how I chose Pacifica, my story is interesting. I did not go to Pacifica to specifically become a therapist. I went to Pacifica to study Jungian psychology and archetypes and mythology and there were many different programs there.

By the time I was 19 years old, I had lived in five different cities in four different countries and three different continents.

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

If the goal of an actor is to tell the best story ever, there's no higher story than Jesus Christ.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you're caught in this sort of timeless moment.

I'm working on a few different films and I'm just searching for the right new story to tell. As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)

I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West.

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.

You see a guy with one leg, he's got a story. "Land mine '69." You see a guy with one arm, he's got a story, too. "Snow blower, bottle of whiskey." You see a guy with one tooth, what would the story be? "Well, uh, I like a lot of taffy."

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

If I'm telling an L.A. story, I want to tell a fresh L.A. story and show places that haven't been shown before.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

I think ad networks is an ongoing story. Federated was a chapter in that story, and it continues to write a new one.

Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible is the most realistic of religious books. We can easily ignore or argue away abstractions, but we bump up against concretely real people, things, and events in story, as in life.

WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!