Patrick J. Adams Quotes

We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world.

We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.

I think we all have a responsibility to tell good stories.

The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives.

'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our politicians aren't telling us any truths. It's hard to find a good, meaningful message, so I think it's up to storytellers, television shows, and films to have an impact on the world conversation. Is that not what film and television is for?

I try my best to live by the principle that if you're going to be telling a story that you didn't live, tell it with as much respect as you can for the people who did live it.

It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

The harder part of doing a real story is that there are real people and you have a responsibility to not just go crazy with their lives and have them do things which are not their character, that they then have to live with.

Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has been shared.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

I like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages that I think are really important for people to be aware of, I would want it to be on the biggest platform and I feel like pop is that. I use it as a way to tell stories.

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.

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

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.