55 Movie Quotes about Storytelling (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 11, 2025

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

1 I bring ya a mother to tell stories... and you shoot her down.

Bobby Driscoll as Peter Pan in Peter Pan (1953)

2 Well, if you're going to have a story about a scientist, he ought to at least be doing something terribibble like creating a boing-boing monster.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 Now, who telling this here tale? -You are! -Then you just sit and do the listening.

James Baskett as Uncle Remus in Song of the South (1946)

4 I'm telling the story!

Quote from Pirates of the Caribbean 1: The Curse of the Black Pearl

5 It was his story against mine, but of course I told my story better.

Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele in In a Lonely Place

6 They're gathering around hearing stories, roasting chestnuts on a fire. What's this?

Quote from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

7 Hey, you looking for somebody to read you a bedtime story?

Quote from Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

8 You're a wonderful storyteller. Isn't he, Charlie?

Quote from Fun and Fancy Free

9 Well, to make a long story short... -Too late.

Quote from Clue (1985)

10 Oh! No! Stop this story!

John Fiedler as Piglet in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh