I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.
Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.
I'm an old storyteller. [When] I tell the story, it's about the story.
Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart. They are a big reason I'm a storyteller because they are two of the best.
I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.
A common question asked of writers is "When did you decide to become a writer?" The answer, of course, is that we didn't decide anything. It was decided for us. I firmly believe that mythical godmothers make appearances at our cradles, and bestow their gifts. The godmother who might have blessed me with a singing voice did not show up; the goddess of dance was nowhere in sight; the chef-to-the-angels was otherwise engaged. Only one made the journey to my cradle, and she whispered, "You will be a storyteller. "
I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.
Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.
I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm to my career and love it more, I have a sense that storytelling is healing, in many ways. You can reach an audience and heal, and by heal, I mean entertain and provoke. It's a wonderful life.
Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.
Now, the relationship the storyteller has with the audience is a much higher quality relationship. You treat them with a lot more intelligence because the truth is that it's not my fault if you don't know what's going on. There are plenty of ways for you to find out. You can talk to all kinds of people, and you've got access to all this information. The onus is no longer on us, as a storyteller, to tell you. You can go out and find out yourself.
A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
Joss [Whedon] is an excellent storyteller. It really doesn't matter what medium he's working in.
I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.