Story Teller Quotes

I'm not as good a singer as I am an actor. So that's why I - the stories I like so much is because I've been a story teller for a long time. I started as a singer and found out I didn't have a very good voice. That's the reason I went into acting.

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

I'm just a story teller.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

Atanu is one of my favourite directors. His script, style of storytelling and characterisation are always very different.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.

What is truth? What is a true story? Who is telling the truth, and what is truth in this world today?

Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing.

Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.

Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story.

To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that's the only way I can make sense of the world, with all the dance that it involves.

The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well.

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