Top 1200 Funny Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The magic in performing as an entertaining ventriloquist happens when the characters come to life and the interaction between the separate personalities on stage becomes 'real.' Then don't forget that the act has to be funny, and to me, being funny and entertaining any given audience is more important than anything.

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

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

I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.

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.

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

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

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

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

I think David Letterman is a genius. Night after night he is funny and smart. He seems to really enjoy his jokes. They seem connected to who he really is. I like watching him, and there is no one better at turning an awkward moment into something very funny.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

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

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.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

Our biggest challenge is always story. The story is the ultimate thing you try to tackle.

The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's the spontaneity that keeps a work fresh and funny. If they can see how hard you work, if they can see the beads of sweat, it's no good. I always try to make it look easy.

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

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

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

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

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

Telling a story about someone has enormous power. People forget a headline. They remember a story.

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.

The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.

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 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."

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

My first short story sale was to a magazine that sat on the story forever... and never did publish it.

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

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

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

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.

I am guaranteeing you that if you see my byline on a story, it's going to be the cleanest story you've ever read.

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

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

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

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

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

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