Alan Rickman Quotes

I appreciate hearing different stories. It inspires me.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

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

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.

I'm grateful to HBO for telling my story, and I'd like to thank everyone for their ongoing support.

We are surrounded by story.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

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

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.

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

To survive, you must tell stories.

That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences very sincerely for the great honour they have done me. It is an honour so great that even yet it is difficult for me to believe that it is true.

I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.

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

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.