I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

I just kept trying to tell myself, Don't be a hero and make a 3. If you keep making 4s, I think I'll eventually outlast somebody.

From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they...

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

I want to tell stories that reflect how people are feeling.

I like to make money; I like to have nice things. But I love to act; I love to tell stories.

The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it.

When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

You can tell when somebody's authentic about what they're saying.

I've been delivering these little homilies since 1980 - that's 37 years - and altogether, NPR statisticians tell me, my bloviation total is 1,656 commentaries - and I trust you've hung onto every...

I don't think you can ever tell the story of Ted Turner's involvement in professional wrestling-slash-sports entertainment without devoting several chapters to the rise and continued ascent of Sting.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.