You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that`s what the storyteller is, and I think it`s important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors ...
Ben Kingsley
It`s a very instinctual relationship, a reaction to something in the script. I read a script and ask myself, "Is this a story I want to tell?" An actor is really a storyteller and sometimes the story being told is as important as the character in the stor...
Karen Allen
I`m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it`s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even liter...
Federico Fellini
Sex is part of the human experience and if you are going to be an actor and a storyteller to tell human stories, that`s going to be part of it because, frankly, it`s the central thing in all our lives.
James Marsters
Any situation today could be a tragedy or a comedy, it just depends on the mood that you`re in when you`re experiencing it, and the mood of the storyteller who is telling it.
Radha Mitchell
[1982 comment on Steven Spielberg] The movies have changed: there`s now this wonderful storyteller Spielberg making benign movies that are enormously successful, while I`m known mainly for making movies about people shooting and cutting each other up. I l...
Arthur Penn
John had a wonderful sense of humor which is belied sometimes by journalists` impression of him as irascible. He loathed the whole celebrity circuit. In between takes he was like an Irish storyteller in a bar - he wouldn`t tell jokes, just stories and you...
Kevin Whately
When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there`s no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.
Jim McKay
When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
Barry Levinson
When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
Barry Levinson
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.
Danny DeVito
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
Armistead Maupin
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don`t want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.
Hugh Jackman
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father`s. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
Andreas Marx
I`m not a guru or a sage. I`m a storyteller. The only times I get disturbed is when I find people who seem to be taking this too seriously.
Robert Jordan
I`m an assistant storyteller. It`s like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I`m waiting on six million people a week, if I`m lucky.
Jane Fonda
I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.
Nicholas Meyer
I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
Andreas Marx
I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
Andreas Marx
I think I`m a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.
Jacqueline (Jackie) Collins