Top 1200 Funny Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

Moviemaking is about telling a story. And you need to know what story you are going to tell.

People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the one that satisfies the curiosity we all have about what happened then, and then, and then. This is the final restriction put on the technique of telling a story. A basic thing called story is built into the human condition. It's what we are; it's something to which we react.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both.

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

I'm not at all sure dialogue is meant to advance the story; I know that sometimes it is the story.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

No matter what happens with technology or whether you're in traditional animation or stop-motion or CG, the biggest challenge always is story. The flow of making the movie is usually determined by how your story is coming together, and when your story is straining and you can't quite get your hands around it, your entire production is straining.

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

I think we're in a really interesting moment for women globally just in terms of, like, historically, I think we're in an interesting moment for women. Because, it's important to remember, there have always been funny, funny women. Mae West was real funny. Marilyn Monroe was in one of the greatest comedies, Some Like It Hot, ever made. I mean, it's not like we're lacking. I just think the percentage of women in positions of power in all aspects of our culture is improving and women are standing up and demanding to be heard.

I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

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

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.

A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God.

If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story.

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

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Tina Fey's autobiography is very, very funny and very well written. It's her life story: it's about how she grows up in New York. There's no obvious reason why I should enjoy this - I mean, this is the autobiography of a woman in her early 40s in New York. I'm a guy from a small town in Denmark.

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

I know a good story from a bad story. But when you have a really good story and they make it bad, I'll say to my wife, "Oh, tonight, I'm going to enjoy watching television because I did great, and wait until you see this." And then, they put it on and it's like - oh, that's not so good. They are fake news.

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

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.

Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it's deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story.

One of the secrets of 'A Christmas Story' is that it's a relatable story. They feel like our family.

The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

There's only so many ways to tell a story before the story gets boring.

Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.

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

There are some women and a lot of dudes who are into my look, but I need to convey that I'm funny ahead of time. That's how I got laid. Every girl I've ever been with is because I was funny, not because they were into a 300-pound bearded, pale dudes.

As actors, we are selfish. When listening to a story, we think of the significance of our character in that story.

I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story.

I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.