I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
I love it when there’s nothing Left to see but tiny spots of what’s still light Stories piercing the night.
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
P.S. It's not schizophrenia, it's creativity, there is a difference. My voices go away after I let them tell their stories.
When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up.
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...
You always hear these stories of people who grew up in Hollywood, and they're like, 'We lost our childhood.' But I was very fortunate.
I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.
Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.
There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make wonderful reading.
A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.
