The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
When it comes to who will like your writing; the ones who will like it will like it because they can relate to the story or can find a piece of their own story hidden within - regardless of the mistakes. The ones who won't, never will - no matter wha...
That story you're scared to share --- that story has the power to change both your life and the lives of others.
I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimised in the telling of your story and are you found, literally, like you matter, you exist in the telling of your story, but when you hear your story...
Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will miss the story. In doing that, you are making a dreadful mistake yourself. Sometimes, it is the mistakes that enrich and give the story so much more mean...
You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
If you gauge how you're doing on whether somebody is responding vocally or not, you're up a creek. You can't do that; you kind of have to be inside of your work and play the scene. And tell the story every day. Tell the story. Tell the story. Regardl...
Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time.
Ever notice that phrenologists have funny-shaped heads?
It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.
We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.
It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.
The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.
If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.
I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.
I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.
It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.
Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.
Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.
But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.
