Danny Huston Quotes

I don't see myself as an actor. I see myself as a storyteller.

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'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

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.

I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

Character is plot, and casting is character.

I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that.

I believe, as an actor, I want to tell stories.

I play my part in my films with utmost honesty.

I'm an artist - I'm an actor - so when I'm looking for something, I'm looking for stories.

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time...

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

All I've ever done since I was 17 is tell stories. You know, I'm a storyteller. And that's what I'm going to keep on doing, especially now, kind of embracing and making sure that we tell immigration.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.