Top 1200 Interesting Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I want to do interesting characters with depth, which are a part of great stories. In fact, if the character is quirky and challenging, that's even better.

I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.

I'm interested in Native American and African American stories, and LGBTQ stories and stories of persons of mixed heritage. These are the stories I want to see onscreen and on the pages.

I'm more sort of attracted to these worlds that are very hard to gain access to. I think those are the most interesting stories.

Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met. We have stories we love to tell and stories we have never told anyone. The extent to which others know us is determined by the stories we choose to share. We extend a deep trust to someone when we say, "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone." Sharing stories creates trust because through stories we come to a recognition of how much we have in common.

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.

My interest is to do interesting lead parts, to tell different stories and to surprise the audience. But as they say in Mumbai, everything is pre-written and it chooses you.

I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting.

I'm an actor, and my main purpose is to bring out interesting stories to life. If it involves a cause that I can be a part of, I most definitely will.

Since the last tour I have done a lot of extensive travel to Iraq, Kuwait, Siberia, South Korea and other places and picked up some hopefully interesting stories. We are living in interesting times and as bad as things are, I draw considerable inspiration from some of the things I'm seeing and people I'm meeting. I'm looking forward to getting out on the road and talking about it all.

Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic and full of lies. Stories can exaggerate and offend and they always, always matter.

I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time.

Well, that’s interesting,” I said. “What’s interesting?” Jack called from the other room. “Something is interesting?” Lend shouted. “No! Nothing!

I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.

One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too.

I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They keep us sane, I think. We tell each other stories, we believe stories. I love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. They're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.

Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.

What I love about Neill's Blomkamp work is that his stories are small human stories. But what's interesting about Neill's movies is that they're set in the future but they're so incredibly timely that it feels like maybe in the present in the next dimension. It feels like it's happening now. The universe is very recognizable, in many ways.

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

I'm more a fan of old-school films with really interesting stories and good performances. That's what I'd like to do.

I always do stories that I believe in, characters that I find interesting, and directors who I want to work with. All these factors have contributed while making choices and continue to as an actor and as a producer.

Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

I find my ideas in a number of places - tips, lawsuits, other news stories that raise interesting questions.

I want to stay close to the groove of people's individual human stories. I can't see that there's anything more interesting than that. That's just me. That's what I do.

I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.

To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.

I find it very interesting: when 90 percent of the critics that review films are men, how is that helpful when trying to create stories from a feminine point of view?

I love to hear stories about people who got to places where they are today. Those kinds of things are very interesting to me.

I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society.

Interesting stories appeal to me, much like it appeals to the audience. Or else I might as well become a banker and make more money.

I do like crime thriller stories. That's because these stories have a lot of layers. There are always three sides to such stories... there is a truth, there is a lie and then there is the ultimate truth. Different human emotions and intense interpersonal relationships form the core of stories in this genre.

My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.

As an actor, one is always looking at doing interesting things... meatier roles... stories that turn out exactly the way on screen like when they were narrated to you.

My job is more about helping people tell their stories in ever more interesting ways.

I think you have to do the stories that interest you and hope an audience likes it, rather than doing stories that you think the audience will like, whether you like them or not. I think there has to be something that you find compelling and interesting, and then hopefully an audience will agree with you.

Larry and I, and a bunch of our colleagues, were sitting on great stories that needed to get out to an audience in one way, shape or form. We've both produced comics in the past, and audio dramas seemed like a similarly interesting option, the other side of the coin. As we've continued with the project, the format has become a vital way for us to tell our stories.

I was connected to the theater, it was my first love, where my career was focused, on interesting ways to tell stories.

If we can make more diverse colors, people, stories, it will be interesting. Uniforms are for the military and the police, not for our thinking.

In the writers' room, the challenge is always to tell interesting stories in unexpected ways, so we try to never limit ourselves in how we accomplish that.

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which we live.

As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are toxic and keep our problems festering. Others are tonic and bring us beyond the limitations of our previous history. To be in a life of our own definition, we must be able to discover which stories we are following and determine which ones help us grow the most interesting possibilities.

I always wanted to work with Ashutosh Gowariker because of the interesting ways in which he depicts stories in his films.

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

I try to do stories that make a difference -- stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear -- and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

What's interesting about the U.K. is that it celebrates an alternative voice. It's up for telling new stories.

My number one goal has always been to try to tell interesting, cohesive, long-term stories.

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

All they get around here is stories. Stories don't make you bleed. Stories don't make you go hungry, don't give you sore feet. When you're young smelling of pigshit and convinced there ain't a weapon in all the damn world that's going to hurt you, all stories do is make you want to be part of them.