Telling Quotes

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them.

When I first started with 'Twilight,' I didn't have any experience. I didn't know what I was doing. So I was pretty intimidated by the editors and the publishers, and I felt like I was a kid in school with the principal telling me what to do! It was hard for me.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

They keep telling me that my flow's up to date, you know. I guess they thought I was gonna come back sounding... old.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I'm pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let's the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, it's alright he's pro-choice then I can enjoy this.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.

George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.

I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.