Telling Stories

Comedy, it’s a way

Comedy, it’s a way for me to keep my acting chops. It’s like a free acting class, to get up in front of a live audience. You get to have fun telling stories. Gabrielle Dennis

I did Popeye and Ronald Reagan and everybody was saying things like yeah he’s a cute little kid but I started, little by little, telling stories about people I’d met and expanded my voices. Gabriel Iglesias

I went up on

I went up on stage, and said, Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks. I was a genius at 10. Try telling that at 21, and you look hacky and stupid. That was the only joke I’ve ever told. Everything since has been character voices, doing impressions or just telling … Read more

As you get older

As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards. Eric Balfour

I think television has

I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I’ve become obsessed with. I just think that it’s opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to … Read more

However much I may

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it’s about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic. Edward Zwick

I remember that –

I remember that – you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling. Eduardo Galeano

Well I\’m not a

Well I’m not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That’s not what I do. I write songs which have a narrative and attempt to make sense and tell a story – sure! But whenever I hear the word \”storyteller\” I think of a children’s musician. Freedy … Read more

I thought I wanted

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. Francis Ford Coppola

I thought that one

I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free speech and freedom of the press and the essentiality and centrality in our lives of really giving broad protection to freedom of speech and freedom of the press in America. I thought I … Read more