117 Movie Quotes about Stories (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

Updated: May 6, 2026

Memorable quotes about stories, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

71 Do you remember how I used to let you ride my horse? And tell you stories?

Quote from The Searchers (1956)

72 Look out for the ruts. There you have the story of my life. Only I never did look out. Always been in one.

Walter Pidgeon as Will Cantrell; Claire Trevor as Mary McCloud in Dark Command (1940)

73 Well, the stars don't tell the future, Donkey. They tell stories.

Quote from Shrek (2001)

74 If you're very good, tomorrow night, I'll tell you the story of Emperor Claudius. He was betrayed by those closest to him. By his own blood.

Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus in Gladiator (2000)

75 I was telling the story of the Crucifixion to some Mongolian tribesmen.

Quote from The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

76 I ain't a-gonna listen to the story.

Quote from Fun and Fancy Free

77 Such an audience needs something stronger than a pretty little love story. So, why shouldn't I write of monsters?

Elsa Lanchester as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Monster'S Bride in Bride of Frankenstein

78 Every day I see you reading. What's with this reading? Some guy makes up some story... _ 'em! It's a waste of time.

Quote from Jungle Fever

79 You got your brother to eat sheep dung. Yes, that's a very amusing story.

Matthew Perry as Leslie Edwards in Almost Heroes (1998)

80 These stories are beautiful. Why, they're almost poetry. -Well, don't kid yourself. They are.

Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord; James Stewart as Macaulay Connor in The Philadelphia Story (1940)