Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play..

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; i….

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts..

I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story..

I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, beca….

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay ali….

I am myself and I am here..

It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but i….

I was put here to sing..

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it….

I tell a story, and therefore I exist..

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified..

You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with..

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?.

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live..

You can't do better than that..

The story is always better than your ability to write it..

Sense how Even the smooth stones ache With stories of their own In the shuddering light of day..

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem..

In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories..

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story..